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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Ja'Dell Davis is a Los Angeles native who currently lives in New York City. She works in the Youth Services Department at the Educational Alliance as the Assistant Director for Higher Education Initiatives, where she specifically oversees college prep programming for high school seniors, and academic enrichment programming for middle school students. Ja’Dell previously taught high school in Philadelphia public schools, and implemented college access programming at Chester High School in Chester, Pennsylvania. Ja’Dell received her B.A. from Swarthmore College with a special major in History and Educational Studies, and a minor in Black Studies. She completed her M.S.Ed in Secondary School Education at the University of Pennsylvania. This fall, she will begin her doctoral studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to her work in the education field, Ja’Dell is a dancer, musician, avid people watcher, and Scrabble enthusiast.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Reading: Informational Text
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.1Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.2Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.3Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).

2. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?
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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. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?
The big game of today’s inaugural FIFA World Cup playoffs is in nearby São Paulo, the sprawling metropolis south of here. But over the course of the next 30 days, Rio de Janeiro will host its share of the games as well. Brazil has hosted the finals once before, in 1950, which resulted in a historic loss on home turf to rival Uruguay. But only Brazil has played in every World Cup tournament, and no other country has taken the World Cup title more often, with Brazil having captured a total of five titles since 1930.
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. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?
Map Search
Find the location of the 2014 FIFA World Cup 2
Web Search/
Thinking
How popular is soccer (association football) around the world? How does this popularity affect preparation for the World Cup? 3
Web Search
How has Brazil benefitted from the preparations for the World Cup? 4
What are the negative affects of the preparations that many Brazilians identify? 5
Why do cities hosting big sporting events make extreme preparations? Do you think the benefits outweigh the costs of these preparations?
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. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?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. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?
Map Search
Find the location of the 2014 FIFA World Cup 2
Web Search/Thinking
How popular is soccer (association football) around the world? How does this popularity affect preparation for the World Cup? 3
Web Search
How has Brazil benefitted from the preparations for the World Cup? 4
What are the negative affects of the preparations that many Brazilians identify? 5
Thinking
Why do cities hosting big sporting events make extreme preparations? Do you think the benefits outweigh the costs of these preparations?
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. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?
Map Search
Find the location of the 2014 FIFA World Cup
Using the “maps” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “Brazil” find the location here:

8. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?
Web Search/ Thinking
How popular is soccer (association football) around the world? How does this popularity affect preparation for the World Cup?
(Possible query: “popularity of soccer”)
The site SoccerPlay ( gives a good comparison to illustrate the popularity of soccer:
Soccer is widely viewed as the world’s most popular sport. Although in the United States it struggles to remain popular, the international community harbors and intense love with the game that is seldom equaled by sport in the United States. For example, the average television audience for the month long World Cup Tournament, a major soccer tournament played by the different countries of the world every four years, was over 93 million for each match. The final match in the 2006 World Cup garnered over 284 million viewers. Compare this to the largest sporting event in the United States. The Super Bowl, the most viewed sporting event in America received just over 90 million viewers, a number equivalent to one match in the World Cup, and almost 200 million fewer viewers than the World Cup’s final match.
Students may gather that this type of popularity means that the preparation would have to be significant in order to accommodate soccer fans coming into Brazil from around the world.

9. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?3
Web Search/
Thinking
How has Brazil benefitted from the preparations for the World Cup?
(Possible queries: “Brazil preparation for World Cup” “World Cup preparation”)
Many articles that result from this search refer the type of work being done in Brazil in order to prepare for the World Cup. An article from USAtoday.com ( discusses aspects of this. An Article from Deccan Herald ( also outlines much of the word done. Students may also infer the level of preparation based on past experience with large sports events and other World Cups they may have seen. Some of these details include:
New stadium
Many visitors coming to Brazil, who will spend lots of money and help the Brazilian economy
New facilities around the country for tourists

10. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?
Web Search
What are the negative affects of the preparations that many Brazilians identify?
(Possible queries: “Brazil preparation for World Cup” “World Cup preparation” “Brazil World Cup protest”)
A similar search to the last question will also return articles that discuss some of the negative aspects of the process of preparing for the 2014 World Cup. An article from The Guardian ( highlights some of the preparations that have negatively impacted Brazilians:
Anti-World Cup protests in 12 cities have marked the worst day in another awful week for Brazil as the government struggles with strikes, crime and public unease less than a month before the tournament kicks off.
Co-ordinated demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and elsewhere coincided with a military police strike – and spate of murders – in another World Cup host city, Recife, to add to the organisers' headaches as hundreds of thousands of players, fans and officials prepare to fly into the country.
The events follow industrial action in Rio earlier in the week by teachers, bus drivers, museum employees and geologists, and underline longer term concerns about public safety and transport infrastructure.
The protest of about a thousand people in Rio was far smaller than the huge demonstrations seen last year but adds to an unusual muted and emotionally complicated atmosphere in Brazil as it prepares to host its first World Cup since 1950.
Carrying banners declaring “Na Copa vai ter luta” (The Cup will have protests), appeals for a general strike and claims that the cost of refurbishing the Maracanã stadium could pay for 200 schools, the demonstrators rallied with striking workers in the broadest show of dissent in several months.

11. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?5
Thinking
Why do cities hosting big sporting events make extreme preparations? Do you think the benefits outweigh the costs of these preparations?
Students can discuss their thoughts on the importance of heavy preparation for large sporting events and the benefits and drawbacks.

12. How did Brazil prepare to host the World Cup of 2014?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.