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	Hot Topic: Travel Get your kicks on Route 66! August is a popular month for vacations. Traveling is a great way to experience new cultures, meet new people, and discover the beautiful scenery of our world. Extensive travel can be very costly. High-quality books can offer an inexpensive and meaningful travel alternative. With a great book, readers can experience the majesty of Yellowstone National Park and inspect the Great Wall of China in the span of a single afternoon. Additionally, many online resources provide virtual field trips that offer users an up-close glimpse of domestic and international locations. Discover new destinations. Update your collections with these Heinemann-Raintree titles!

	Activities: Have students plan a vacation. Assign teams to read about various countries to help them make their vacation decision. Once the teams decide on their destination, have each team plan two different routes and transportation options. Each team will analyze their findings, decide on one option, and present their work. Have students design a travel brochure. Students can research a vacation destination and create a travel brochure and develop destination postcards. Have students plan a great American road trip. Students should work in teams and plan a road trip to various states. Teams can read about various places to visit on their trip. Have each team plan the route and identify sites that they will visit. The teams should calculate their expenses.

		from AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH PRIMARY SOURCES , Levels L-M Route 66: America’s Road (from DESTINATION DETECTIVES, Levels V-X) Australia, Brazil, China Egypt, France, Germany India, Ireland, Italy Japan, Kenya, Mexico Spain, United Kingdom, Vietnam (also available in Freestyle Express, and some in Spanish!) (from FIRST GUIDE TO MAPS) Mapping the Land Mapping the United States Mapping the World Mapping Your Community Reading Maps (from SYMBOLS OF FREEDOM: NATIONAL PARKS, Levels M-N) Big Bend National Park Glacier National Park Grand Canyon National Park Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Rocky Mountain National Park Yellowstone National Park (from THEN AND NOW, Level G) Travel (also available in Spanish!) (from TRAVEL THROUGH TIME, Levles Q-R) Cycle Power: Two-Wheeled Travel Past and Present Flying High: Air Travel Past and Present Making Waves: Water Travel Past and Present On the Road: Road Travel Past and Present Riding the Rails: Rail Travel Past and Present War Machines: Military Vehicles Past and Present And of course, don't forget to check out the books in our extremely popular Heinemann State Studies series for grades 3-5! State Studies: California State Studies: Florida State Studies: Illinois State Studies: Michigan State Studies: New Jersey State Studies: New York State Studies: Ohio State Studies: Texas State Studies: Virginia

	Resources The Tramline and Virtual Field Trips web sites provide users with a virtual "visit" to a variety of places throughout the world. Objectives, lessons plans, questions and answers, and activities are provided for each destination. The Read·Write·Think.org and Xpeditions web sites provide materials to help students create and design travel brochures. Visit the Google Maps and Google Earth web sites to plan your vacation route.
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Hot Topic: Travel