{"id":5783,"date":"2024-08-01T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2024-10-22T18:13:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:13:23","slug":"design-a-historical-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/design-a-historical-road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Design a Historical Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/roadtrip\/Design%20a%20Historical%20Trip.docx\">Instruction sheet for students<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/roadtrip\/Toulouse_travel-planner.pdf\">Sample Tour Planner<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your first task is to choose your favoured location (city, country, region). This might be based on somewhere you have already visited or would like to visit. Ideally, each person in the class should choose a different location for variation. Then you will need to identify 10 places around which to construct your trip. These should be arranged in a numbered \u2018loop\u2019 so that the tourist can start and end in the same place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/roadtrip\/\">Part of the &#8220;Design a Historical Road Trip&#8221; Unit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/roadtrip\/vienna.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instruction sheet for students&nbsp;|&nbsp;Sample Tour Planner Your first task is to choose your favoured location (city, country, region). This might be based on somewhere you have already visited or would like to visit. Ideally, each person in the class should choose a different location for variation. Then you will need to identify 10 places around&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/design-a-historical-road-trip\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-8-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5785,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-8-history\/historical-road-trip-to-paris-athens\/","url_meta":{"origin":5783,"position":0},"title":"Historical Road Trip to Paris \/ Athens","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"August 5, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Sample Outcomes:\u00a0A Historical Trip around Paris\u00a0|\u00a0A Google Earth Tour of Athens These projects were produced by my Grade 11 students, and I plan to share these the next time students are given this project as a sample outcome. 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