1. Teacher Guide
This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble.
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Want to extend today’s lesson? Consider using Skype in the Classroom to arrange for your class to chat with another class in today’s location. And if you are using Windows 8, you can also use the Bing apps to learn more about this location and topic; the Travel and News apps in particular make great teaching tools.
Alice Keeler is a mother of 5 and a teacher in Fresno, California. She has her B.A in Mathematics, M.S. in Educational Media Design and Technology and is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Technology with an emphasis in games and simulations. EdTech speaker, blogger, and presenter. Founder of coffeeEDU, a 1 hour conference event for educators. New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel member. High school math teacher for 14 years. Currently teaching pre-service teachers curriculum, instruction and technology at California State University Fresno. Teaches online for Fresno Pacific University in the Masters in Educational Technology. Passionate that kids are not failures, researches gamification in education to increase student motivation.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: English Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

2. What impact does tourism have on a community?
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Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. What impact does tourism have on a community?
The Thai island Ko Kut has only recently been building up its reputation as a holiday destination. The quiet island hosts a more subdued and family-oriented lifestyle than many of the beach resorts on the mainland.
Depending on your departure point, the boat ride to Ko Kut may not take much more than an hour. Once ashore, visitors are rewarded with white sandy beaches and waters well-suited for snorkeling and scuba dives. Prior to the emerging tourism market, Ko Kut and some of the nearby islands were home to coconut plantations, some of which are still operating.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. What impact does tourism have on a community?1
Web Search
How much is your local economy dependent upon tourism? 2
How is employment effected in a tourist town? 3
What additional services does a community need to provide when tourism is a significant portion of the economy? 4
What impact can tourism have on the environment? 5
Thinking
Why did Ko Kut focus more on the tourism industry rather than the coconut industry?
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. What impact does tourism have on a community?5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. What impact does tourism have on a community?1
Web Search
How much is your local economy dependent upon tourism? 2
How is employment effected in a tourist town? 3
What additional services does a community need to provide when tourism is a significant portion of the economy? 4
What impact can tourism have on the environment? 5
Thinking
Why did Ko Kut focus more on the tourism industry rather than the coconut industry?
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. What impact does tourism have on a community?1
Web Search
How much is your local economy dependent upon tourism?
(Possible Search Queries: “____ tourism”, “_____ economy”)
Source
Fresno Bee-
Responses will vary. Students should find what percentage of their economy is based on tourism. What draws tourists to the area and what would happen if tourists did not come to their area.
Fresno CA’s biggest tourist attraction that it is the gateway to Yosemite. Yosemite attracts 4 million visitors a year. Yosemite brings $472 million in employee salaries to its gateway region including Fresno.
In Madera (Fresno’s neighboring city), tourism is the 2nd largest economic driver.

8. What impact does tourism have on a community?2
Web Search
How is employment effected in a tourist town?
(Possible Search Queries: "tourism economy”, “Economic impact tourism”)
Source
Tourism Economics:
Locations that are dependent upon tourism expect to see an increase in employment. These jobs are likely to be in the hospitality area as well as in providing niche services to tourists such as bike rentals.

9. What impact does tourism have on a community?3
Web Search
What additional services does a community need to provide when tourism is a significant portion of the economy?
(Possible Search Queries: ”tourism economy”, “services tourism”)
Sources
Tourism Economics:
Michigan State University:
When tourism is a significant part of the economy communities need to provide a lot of transportation, accommodations, entertainment, recreation, food and beverage, and retail.

10. What impact does tourism have on a community?4
Web Search
What impact can tourism have on the environment?
(Possible Search Query: “environmental impact of tourism”)
Source
United Nations Environment Program:
Building resorts and infrastructure can have a negative impact on the environmental surroundings the tourism is based on. Replacing nature with roads and hotels can affect the ecosystem. Increasing the number of people in an area leads to a depletion of resources. Water, food, land…. Increased numbers of people can also cause wear and tear on the environment. Natural formations and landmarks can be destroyed. Plants can be trampled.

11. What impact does tourism have on a community?5
Thinking
Why did Ko Kut focus more on the tourism industry rather than the coconut industry?
(Possible Search Queries: ”environment tourism”, “ko kut coconut industry”)
Answers may vary. Students may include that the expanding tourism industry is already giving more and more jobs to its residents. It also has the potential to make more jobs and bring more money than the coconut industry could.

12. What impact does tourism have on a community?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.