Please send some of your students' best brochures to Pride, Inc. in Baltimore so they can be sent and distributed to officials in the port cities. Some of them will also be selected to appear on the Asia with PRIDE Web site. Send your brochures to:

Director of Education
Pride of Baltimore Inc.
401 E. Pratt Street, Suite 222
Baltimore, MD 21202

Objectives

In this lesson, students will briefly visit each of Pride II's Ports of Call during this school year in order to make an informed selection of one port to visit at length. Then, students will be asked to create a travel brochure for the selected port. The brochure needs to appeal to family vacationers. It should offer a variety of things to do, places to see, and maybe even some places to eat (since the cuisine is so different in these regions). Students are directed to make a tri-fold brochure using color and imagination to attract families to these fascinating Ports of Call.

MSPP Outcomes:

Peoples of the Nation & World

• Investigate and gain appreciation for various cultures throughout the world.

Geography

• Locate places, cultural features, and natural features by interpreting and constructing maps using directions, legends, grid systems, boundary lines, scales, and political units.

Teacher Background:

If your group is new to the program, a brief discussion will need to introduce the students to this lesson. Explain that in this lesson they will need to select from one of these 8 ports Pride II will be visiting: Shanghai, Xiamen, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Kaohsiung, Keelung, Tongyong, or Pusan. Students are first invited to briefly visit each of these ports. During this time they need to think about what port region they find the most interesting and colorful. One they could sell as a family vacation spot. Once they decide which port they find most interesting, they will go back and visit that region at length. While visiting the region through links, they are expected to take notes on ideas that they can use to make a travel brochure.

If your students have done other Asia with PRIDE lessons, ask them to recall information they have learned in previous lessons. For example, they might want to include information about the currency used in this city - which they learned about in Ship's Hold. Or, they may want to include some information about different housing styles they learned about in My House - Your House, or different types of food they could eat or specialty products exported from these cities that they learned about in From Marketplaces to Global Commerce.

There are some templates in the lesson for students in the lower grades that guide them in a possible brochure design. Having done brochures with students in the past, we know that students can get pretty creative! So if your students have a better way, encourage them to strike out on their own.

Materials Needed:

If you can find and bring in some travel brochures for students to look at for design ideas and advertising techniques, it would be helpful (especially for younger students). Art supplies will be needed if students are making brochures by hand.

Teaching Tips:

You will need to decide about the final product. Students are requested to check with the teacher to see what final product will be required. You may want to supply unlined paper, and have students generate hand drawn brochures as a homework or in class assignment. You may be "technology-literate" enough to have students create computer generated brochures using a word processing program or a design software like ClarisWorks or Student Writing Center. Or, if you have the ability, you may want to have students create a HyperStudio stack or PowerPoint presentation as a requirement. We have included this idea as an Extension in the final student page of this activity. Making this travel brochure would be an excellent activity to team teach - for instance with your school's computer specialist or art teacher.

Thoughtful Application:

Ask students to make a list of essentials they would need to pack if they were to visit this port. Have them calculate how much money they would take to spend on their trip and covert it into the appropriate currency. Ship's Hold may be helpful in finding the conversion information. They might also calculate how long it would take to reach this destination by air and by sea. This information may be added as required information included in the brochure.

How Will You Know Your Students Have Done A Good Job?

• Chosen a Port of Call on the Pride II itinerary
• Filled their brochure with interesting and accurate information about that city
• Created a brochure that is attractive to look at
• Created a convincing brochure - people will want to travel to this place after they have read the students' brochure
• Included a phone number or Web site address so that people can get more information about this place

Good luck!