INTRODUCTION
Students must use mapping
skills to locate a
neighborhood grocery store,
then with acknowledge of
money skills complete a
shopping trip at the grocery
store.
TASK
We are going on a class picnic to the Park because we are going to study our environment. However, I forgot to bring food. You my students have to save the trip by
Plan a route to the neighborhood grocery store, using Bing.com/maps.
Get the needed groceries for the picnic.
Add up the correct cost for the groceries.
Get the groceries back to the school before lunchtime!
DAY 1Go to http://www.bing.com/maps/
You will then click on the tab that says get
directions. In A, you will type in your school's
address. In B, you will type in the address of the
neighborhood grocery store. Then click the
button that says Go. Print out the map.
Write down the distance (in miles) from the
school to the grocery Store. Cut out the map
that you printed out. Throw away everything
else.
Type directions for your map using Microsoft
Works and print them out. Put the map and the
directions in your folder..
Note: Copy and Paste Links to New Internet
Page
DAY 2
Go to http://www.netgrocer.com/
You will use this site to help you price
your groceries from the list that your
teacher will gave you. Type the name of
the grocery that you are looking for in the
"search" window. Get the price of that
grocery, and be sure to add as many of
those as the list asks for. (Example: If the
lists calls for 4 jars of Jelly, and each jar
costs $2.20, you must add $2.20 together
4 times.)
Note: Copy and Paste Links to New
Internet Page
DAY 2 CONT. Use a calculator to add together the cost of all
the groceries the teacher will need for the class
picnic. Report this amount to your teacher using
the task answer sheet from
www.math.com/students/calculators/source/basic
.htm
The teacher asked you at 8:25 to run this
important errand for her. Lunchtime for your
class is 11:00. Figure out how much time you
have to run your errand and get back to the
school.
If you left the school at 10:30am, the store was
10 minutes away, and it took you thirty minutes
to complete your grocery shopping, what time
would you return to the school? Did you make it
back to the school in time?
DAY 3
DAY 3
Use all the information that
you gathered in your quest
to write a story called "How
I Saved the Class Picnic".
Use the map and directions
that you printed out on Day
1 to make a book about your
adventure!
Story Writing : How I Saved the Class Picnic
Teacher Name: Mr. Velasquez
Student Name: ________________________________________
CATEGORY 4 3 2 1
Writing Process
Student devotes a lot of time and effort to the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, and editing). Works hard to make the story wonderful.
Student devotes sufficient time and effort to the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, and editing). Works and gets the job done.
Student devotes some time and effort to the writing process but was not very thorough. Does enough to get by.
Student devotes little time and effort to the writing process. Doesn\'t seem to care.
Focus on Assigned Topic
The entire story is related to the assigned topic and allows the reader to understand much more about the topic.
Most of the story is related to the assigned topic. The story wanders off at one point, but the reader can still learn something about the topic.
Some of the story is related to the assigned topic, but a reader does not learn much about the topic.
No attempt has been made to relate the story to the assigned topic.
Neatness The final draft of the story is readable, clean, neat and attractive. It is free of erasures and crossed-out words. It looks like the author took great pride in it.
The final draft of the story is readable, neat and attractive. It may have one or two erasures, but they are not distracting. It looks like the author took some pride in it.
The final draft of the story is readable and some of the pages are attractive. It looks like parts of it might have been done in a hurry.
The final draft is not neat or attractive. It looks like the student just wanted to get it done and didn\'t care what it looked like.
Creativity The story contains many creative details and/or descriptions that contribute to the reader\'s enjoyment. The author has really used his imagination.
The story contains a few creative details and/or descriptions that contribute to the reader\'s enjoyment. The author has used his imagination.
The story contains a few creative details and/or descriptions, but they distract from the story. The author has tried to use his imagination.
There is little evidence of creativity in the story. The author does not seem to have used much imagination.
RUBRIC TO GET GRADED ON
CONCLUSION
This webquest has integrated a variety of upper elementary math
and social studies skills as well as given an opportunity for writing.
Students can be assessed several ways:
correct directions from map assignment on Day 1
correct dollar amount from grocery shopping on Day 2
writing rubric for Day 3
correct answers on Task Answer Sheet