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World
Tour
By Fanny Sosenke
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Students use an interdisciplinary,
technology-based
project to plan a fictitious rock band’s world
tour.
Your
band has made it big in your town, and it is time you
share your
music with the world!
This
is the premise for World Tour, an interdisciplinary
project that
is the culmination of a seventh-grade spreadsheet unit. In
this
project, students plan a world tour for a fictitious rock
band.
The band seeks a manager to represent it, designs its
flyers, and
plans all stages of the tour, including calculating all
the expenses.
Students use spreadsheets, graphic design and word
processing software,
and the World Wide Web.
See the complete outline, visit the
Web sites mentioned in the article, and visit
the full project home page at www.parktudor.pvt.k12.in.us/WorldTour/WTindex.html.
Project Outline
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Steps
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Disciplines
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Jobs
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Technology
Used
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• Define
the character
of the group |
• English
• Art
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• Research
on musicians
• Design of a flyer
• Letter to the agent
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• Word
processing
• PhotoShop
• World Wide Web
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• Design
the itinerary
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• Geography
• Art
• Foreign Language
• Mathematics
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• Choose
the cities
• Research and write
a report on two
cities
• Draw the itinerary
• Design a flyer
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• Word
processing
• PhotoShop
• World Wide Web
• Color it!
• Spreadsheets
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• Calculation
of airfares
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• Mathematics
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• Decide
on a travel
agent
• Calculate airfares
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• World
Wide Web
• Spreadsheets
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• Calculation
of travel
expenses
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• Mathematics
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• Find
per diem
• Calculate food and
lodging
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• World
Wide Web
• Spreadsheets
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• Calculation
of profit
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• Mathematics
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• Decide
on how to
charge
• Calculate profits
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• Spreadsheets
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• Presentation
of their
work
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• All
disciplines
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• Calculate
net profit
• Write report on profits
• Present a graph
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• Spreadsheets
• Graphing
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Web
Resources
Note. These Web sites were
valid when
this issue of L&L went to press. We have
no control
over these sites, though, and the Web is very volatile.
Please let
us know if you find a broken link, and we’ll do our
best to
update it.
Rock Musicians’ Biographies and Band Web
Sites
City Information
Maps
Travel Sites
Per Diem
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Fanny Sosenke (fsosenke@parktudor.pvt.k12.in.us)
teaches seventh-grade math at Park Tudor School. She
also
teaches education classes at Indiana
University–Purdue
University at Indianapolis and works as a
mathematics consultant,
giving workshops and presentations on math reform in
the United
States and in Uruguay (her country of origin). She
won a 1996–97
Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and
Science
Teaching. Contact Fanny at Park Tudor School, 7200
N. College
Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46240; 317.415.2902; fax
317.254.2702.
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