Well, as I stated before the purpose of this unit was twofold. One
was to engage our students in an authentic learning situation and
also have them learn how to use technology as a tool in that real-life
situation. So, we decided to incorporate some components from social
studies, a little math, and, of course, a lot of English because
they had to do a lot of writing. The purpose was to have our students
travel from one coast of the United States to the other coast, stopping
at places in between, looking at those cities as tourist areas,
deciding on some resources there that they might want to use or
visit, and then how to spend their money while they were there and
manage their money, and then also cope with a few things that might
happen to someone who really might be on a trip across the United
States. That is basically what the project was designed to do.
