Lesson correlates with National Business Education Association National Standards for Business Education, 1995, Reston, Virginia.
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.
D. Travel Considerations
 
Level 3 (Secondary)- Performance Expectations:  Detail the processes for securing travel documents.

Traveling Abroad


TIME REQUIRED: Two 50-minute class periods  
RECOMMENDED GRADE: Grades 11-12
 
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
http://gnn.com/gnn/meta/travel/res/countries.html
 

PROCEDURE: 1. 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.
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