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Standard
I. Awareness...Achievement Standard: Explain the role of international
business and analyze its impact on careers and doing business at the local,
state, national, and international levels.
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| D.
Travel Considerations
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| Level 3 (Secondary)- Performance Expectations: Detail the processes for securing travel documents. | |
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Traveling Abroad |
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| TIME REQUIRED: | Two 50-minute class periods |
| RECOMMENDED GRADE: |
Grades
11-12
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| MAJOR CONCEPTS: | Travel
documents for international travel.
Role of U.S. Customs, duties on imported goods. Travel terms: visa, passport, import duty, prohibited goods, itinerary, exchange rates. |
| INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES: |
The
students will:
1. Complete an application for U.S. Passport. 2. Learn the process for securing a visa. 3. Be able to describe the role of the U.S. Customs office, and explain duties associated with imported personal goods. 4. Recognize exchange rates and be able to convert to and from foreign currency. |
| MATERIALS: |
U.S.
Passport Application
Handout D-1. |
| RATIONALE: | Explain
to students how to make a travel itinerary, to a country where they have
never traveled, a country whose culture is different from the one in which
they live. Handout D-1 is self-explanatory.
The purpose of such an assignment is to create an interest in international travel, and a curiosity about other cultures. Make it easy for students to learn what they can realistically use in their future travel. Here are some useful addresses: http://bin.gnn.com/cgi-bin/gnn/currency
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| PROCEDURE: |
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Give students the handout and lead them through the first steps of
developing an itinerary.
2. Provide newspapers or internet access with exchange rates, airline prices, descriptions of various types of lodging, youth hostels, modes of ground travel, and costs. 3. After completing the travel itinerary, have students take home and complete the U.S. Passport Application. |
| AUTHOR: | Rosemary Piserchio, College of San Mateo, San Bruno, CA. |
| EDITORS: |
Les
Dlabay, Lake Forrest College, Wildwood, IL.
Robert Ristau, Eastern Michigan University (ret.), Ypsilanti, MI. |
| Click here to download Microsoft Word version of the plan including handouts. | |