Kids & Travel
A recent piece of research by the children's television channel
Jetix revealed:
- Kids are THREE times better travelled than their parent were at the same age.
- By the age of 12, kids have, on average, travelled 34,136 miles compared to their parents' 10,898.
- 43% of kids aged 12 or under have clocked up enough miles for a trip around the world.
All this is obviously very important to our children's academic development as well. The resources on this site are meant to help teachers engage their students on the evolution of travel, to get them talking about new technology (space travel?), examining the past and possibly even speculating about the future.
The Lesson Plan
The lesson plan's aims are:
• To encourage discussion about the evolution of transport and speculation about what the future holds
• To explore the technological development in transport and its impact on people’s lifestyles
And the objectives:
Objectives:
• To give a questionnaire to three different generations of people
• Collate and analyse the results to find out how transport has changed over the years
• Discover how it has affected family leisure travel
• Speculate about travel and leisure for families in the future
Click here for the lesson plan