American Tour

Lesson Focus

Choose one state of America.
Plan a tour of that state as if it was a holiday.
Research tourist destinations.
Choose departure airport.
Plan the flight
Choose destination airport.
Find a suitable hotel.
Plan the tour.
Research each destination you will visit.
Launch Google Earth and start to plan your tour.
Complete the worksheet and include the following information.
State logo or flag.
State animal.
How did the state get its name?
Size, population, date founded.
Top tourist spots.
3 fun facts about your state.
Create a population graph (1900 to 2020)
Import your graphs into the worksheet.

Digital Skills & Computing Focus

Log into a computer and their Google Account.
Access Google Classroom.
Able to identify the set assignment and follow instructions.
Launch Google Earth.
Create a new project and link the saved information to Google Drive.
Start the tour by choosing a departure location and airport.
Research destination airports and hotels.
Research tourist destinations and add them to Google Earth.
Understand how to edit “features, add text and graphics.
Make use of 2d and 3d views and street views.
Make sure the tours run correctly and all the locations are linked.
Understand left and right mouse clicks.
Open and start to work on the Google Doc worksheet.
Complete the different sections.
Add pictures where stated.
Use keyboard shortcuts.
Use the hyperlinks provided.
Copy and paste data with or without formatting and understand the difference.
Open the Google Sheets template.
Research and enter the necessary data.
Add data to Google Sheets.
Create a graph.
Inset and link the graph into your worksheet.
Print if required.

Y6 - The American dream

Year 6 have been planning a holiday to the USA. Everyone had a different state of America and children had to plan a tour including where they was going to fly from, which airport they will fly into to, where they was going to stay and what they was going to visit.

This is a full on tour of one state of America.

Google Earth

plan it, view it

Children used Google Earth to plan a virtual tour. This allowed them to not only plan and fly to each destination, but to also see it in glorious 3D and even down to street level with Google street view .

We mixed digital technology , shared information and ideas using Jamboard and worked like true tour planners. We used Google Docs to share a worksheet and Google Sheets to produce a graph of population

What we covered

Brief History

Famous Americans

Tourist Attractions

Planning The Tour

Our Work

American Worksheet.

Plan it, Fly it, live it - future planning skills for Y6

Start Location.
Where they was flying from - a local airport.
Dentition airport.
Use the internet to find a hotel.
Plan their tour, taking in museums, national parks, monuments and tourist attractions.
Completed a worksheet covering their chosen state.
All our work was done in the classroom on Chromebooks.
A focus on: Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking and Creativity.

Population & Data

Population

Children researched population of their chosen state on the internet and produced graphs showing growth or decline from 1900 to 2020.

Children was surprised how few people lived in some states when records begin in 1790 and how quickly the population grew after 1900.

Graphs were seamlessly linked from Google Sheets into Google Docs. A great example on how to collect, analyse, evaluate and present data and information.