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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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.W D Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.
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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

2. What is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?
© Gavriel Jecan/Aurora Photos
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 is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?
Guanacos are native to the mountains of South America. These relatives of llamas and camels are especially populous in the mountains of Patagonia, where our photographer captured this cutie pie and its mother inside the boundaries of Torres Del Paine National Park.
Herds are divided by gender, with small herds of female guanacos and their young, called chulengos, roaming with a single, dominant male. Younger males tend to group in much larger herds, sometimes as many as 50 roaming the arid hills.
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 is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?1
Web Search
What is an ungulate? 2
Map Search
Use Bing Maps to locate the region of Patagonia. 3
How do domesticated sheep compete for resources with wild guanacos? 4
Why do farmers choose sheep ranching over farming the native species of guanacos? 5
What policies are being considered to address the impact of sheep farming in Patagonia?
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 is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?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 is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?1
Web Search
What is an ungulate? 2
Map Search
Use Bing Maps to locate the region of Patagonia. 3
How do domesticated sheep compete for resources with wild guanacos? 4
Why do farmers choose sheep ranching over farming the native species of guanacos? 5
What policies are being considered to address the impact of sheep farming in Patagonia?
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 is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?1
Web Search
What is an ungulate?
(Possible Search Queries: “ungulate”)
Sources
Wikipedia-
Ungulates are a diverse group of large mammals. Included in this group are: horses, cattle, giraffes, camels, deer, hippopotamuses, whales and dolphins. Most of them have hooves (excluding ones in the ocean). The term means, roughly, "being hoofed" or "hoofed animal".

8. What is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?2
Map Search
Use Bing Maps to locate the region of Patagonia.

9. What is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?3
Web Search
How do domesticated sheep compete for resources with wild guanacos?
(Possible Search Queries: “sheep guanacos” )
Sources
When sheep ranchers brought in the sheep to the region of Patagonia, the sheep were using the land and eating the food that the guacanos lived off of. over time this negatively impacted the number of guanacos in the area.

10. What is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?4
Web Search
Why do farmers choose sheep ranching over farming the native species of guanacos?
(Possible Search Queries: ”farming sheep guacanos” )
Sources
Profitability of sheep farming and wildlife management in Patagonia -
Even though guanaco wool is significantly more valuable that sheep wool, the local farmers in Patagonia see them as a pest and therefore do not take advantage of the local resource.

11. What is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?5
Web Search
What policies are being considered to address the impact of sheep farming in Patagonia?
(Possible Search Queries: ”sheep guacanos policy” )”
Sources
Guanaco Management in Patagonian Rangelands: A Conservation Opportunity on the Brink of Collapse-
In Argentina they are trying to enforce conservation laws for the guanacos lice anti-poaching laws.
They are also trying to encourage local people to harvest the guanaco’s wool as a conservation effort.

12. What is the impact of sheep farming on guanacos in Patagonia?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.