Goals:

1. Students will learn information about the Caribbean, travel in particular, through a new medium, a speaker.

2. Students will be able to receive immediate responses to their questions dealing with the planning of the trip to the Caribbean.

Time:

one hour

Resources/Materials:

chalk, chalkboard, paper, pens, speaker. Other resources and materials will vary as to what the speaker will bring - this may include things like travel brochures, books, magazines (Go Go Worldwide Vacations Caribbean and the Bahamas, Pleasure Break Vacations: Cancun, Acapulco, Antigua, Aruba, Caribbean Cruises, Belize, Costa Rica, Puerta Vallarta, and St. Kitts), or videos.

Procedure:

1. Explain to the students that the "plan of action" of the whole unit is intended to explore the Caribbean from here while planning to literally explore it down there.

2. Next, draw from the students as to what type of profession might deal with traveling. This will lead into the guest speaker, a travel agent.

3. Inform the students that arrangements have been made for a travel agent to come and speak to the class about where to start in planning a trip and what types of resources are needed.

4. The students will prepare two questions to ask the speaker about any aspect of the planning of the trip (students may want to keep paper and a pen handy to write down questions while the travel agent is talking).

5. The travel agent will present the information to the students and then open the class up for questions and discussion.

Assessment:

Students will be assessed by providing a written response of three new things that they learned from this speaker.

Curricular Strands:

Social Studies - people, culture, location

Math - money, estimation

English - communication, writing, listening

Science - temperature, climate

Possible Extensions:

The class or individual students could visit a travel agency to collect more information about their travel plans. Students could plan a trip for their families or friends.

Carribean Unit - written by Trina Collins, Richard Wheeler, & Daniel Shimek

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