Day Seventy-Six

Last day ... test day!!!

Have a great break and enjoy having NO HOMEWORK!!!

See you all in 2012!

Day Seventy-Five

Oh my ... two days left!

Cruise presentations ... finished!

Review for tomorrow's test.... sorry!

Day Seventy-Four

Cruise Day Presentations!

Day Seventy-Three (Tuesday)

Final work period before the cruise presentations (tomorrow)!

Click here to find the test review for this week's Unit Three test...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bTN8qVpsupf6nyJzEomtUpSvws6i5LR1QeB5L6bJjr0/edit

Day Seventy-Two

Please note that your cruise presentations will be on WEDNESDAY ... no exceptions.
The judges have made time in their busy schedules and will expecting a great cruise 'pitch'!

Today you will need to complete your Climate Graph data. I will do a demo in the classroom. Please use the website below to find the Climate data:

www.worldclimate.com

Remember to use 24-hour average temperature (in degrees Celcius) and Average Rainfall (in mm).

**You will not have Tuesday's class in the library... so please plan to do some work at home!

Day Seventy-One (Friday)

Field trip to the Royal Ontario Museum (Mayan Exhibit) and Chinatown!

Day Seventy

Today your individual country profiles are due at the end of class. For each cruise, you are responsible for researching one of your island port of calls and providing:

1) Some brief highlights of the country (a summary in your own words)

2) Biophysical activities for cruise passengers to do while visiting the island

2) Cultural activities for cruise passengers...

At the start of class we talked about our field trip tomorrow: ROM and Chinatown.

See this link to learn a bit more about Chinatown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FreP7Z3Se5o

Day 68 & 69.

Due at the end of Tuesday's class: cruise route (on map), directional arrow, countries visited (and coloured in!).

Due at the end of Wednesday's class: cruise ship cross section.

Day Sixty-Seven (Monday - Cruise Day!)

We're going cruising! Click here to find today's Powerpoint presentation about cruising in the Caribbean.

Click here to find the Cruise Project instructions.

The cruise cross-section cannot be downloaded to the blog. Please see me for copies.

Click here to find the Cruise Project evaluation rubric.

Use this site to help you with your cruise design.

Royal Caribbean International Site

http://www.royalcaribbean.com/home.do?SID=P3083374683&247SEM=

Day Sixty-Six (Friday)

10 more school days until the holiday break! (but who's counting... ?)

Today you completed a handout about the 3 types of Sustainable Tourism: Ecotourism, Wilderness Tourism, and Adventure (Adrenaline) Tourism.

For each, please be able to discuss: What? Why? Who? and Examples.

Day Sixty-Five

Finishing our Matari Maps: Designing an Ecotourism Trail

Day Sixty-Four

We started class by seeing where sea turtle lay their eggs on the shores of Tobago. What magnificent creatures!

We took up the Tobago case study. There are 3 important things you need to come away with:

(i) Be able to show evidence to support which stage of tourism development Tobago is current in.

(ii) Provide 3 objectives for the Tobago government to provide economic develpment in the area of tourism for the next 10 years.

(iii) Make a prediction (based on your question ii) for the future of Tobago: rejuvenation, stability, or decline?

Next, we started your Matari: Building an Ecotourism Trail assignment.

Day Sixty-Three

(i) We started with a documentary (click here for handout) looking at Ecotourism.

(ii) You completed the questions on the handout from the Tobago case study.

Day Sixty-Two (Monday)

A bit of a tricky topic today: The Stages of Tourism Development.

See pages 95-98 in the textbook. You will be doing a case study on Tobago.

Day Sixty-One (Friday)

Today we completed worksheets on the following topics:

(i) Tourism's Effect on Communities (Positive Impacts)

(ii) Foreign Ownership (Negative Impact)

Please be able to show how the Ripple Effect (also known as the Multiplier Effect) operates. For example, if you were to consider the act of buying a locally made souvenir, how would the revenue from that sale 'ripple' through the economy of that Caribbean country? We did a few examples on the board.

... and then we ate Jamaican patties. Yum!

Day Sixty

Thank you for all of your thoughtful comments on today's topic: sex tourism.

Please click here to access the powerpoint.

Foodie Friday is tomorrow! I will bring Jamaican patties...