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. Remember, you can always send feedback to the Bing in the Classroom team at BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.com. You can learn more about the program at bing.com/classroom and follow the daily lessons on the Microsoft Educator Network. BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.combing.com/classroomMicrosoft Educator Network 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, take a Skype lesson on today’s topic, or invite a guest speaker to expand on today’s subject. And if you are using Windows 8, the panoramas in the MSN Travel App are great teaching tools. We have thousands of other education apps available on Windows here. Skype in the Classroom another class take a Skype lesson invite a guest speaker MSN Travel App here Ja'Dell Davis is a Los Angeles native who currently divides her time between New York City and Madison, Wisconsin. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, pursing a PhD in Sociology. Ja’Dell previously taught high school in Philadelphia public schools, and implemented college access and academic enrichment programming in Chester, Pennsylvania and New York City in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. 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. In addition to her studies and 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). CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.6Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.

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3. Don’t try hooting in the woods at dusk in hopes of hearing a response from a barn owl. This pale bird emits an eerie sort of shrieking sound that might inspire thoughts of the supernatural. Combine that with the bird’s nearly silent flight (ideal for swooping down into a meadow to snatch up a vole) and its pale, ghostly appearance, and it’s no wonder that some cultures have traditionally considered the barn owl a sinister omen and a harbinger of death. But the barn owl’s no mythical beast. With a habitat distribution bigger than most other owls, this skilled hunter does a great job of keeping the population of small rodents under control. And yes, it will build a nest for laying eggs and raising young in the rafters of a barn, or similar human construction. In fact, some farmers have taken advantage of this by purposely cutting a hole near the roof of their barns, expressly to attract roosting barn owls. It beats calling an exterminator. Do animals make music or do they just make sounds?

4. 1 Video Search Find a video that plays the sound that a barn owl makes. Would you consider this music or just a sound? 2 ThinkingHow do you distinguish between “music” and “sounds” 3 Thinking Are there animals that you believe can make music and have other sounds? 4 Web Search Find a scientifically-based analysis of the idea of “animal music” versus “animal sounds”. 5 ThinkingIs it useful to study the sounds that animals make? Do animals make music or do they just make sounds?

5. 5 Minutes Do animals make music or do they just make sounds?

6. 1 Video Search Find a video that plays the sound that a barn owl makes. Would you consider this music or just a sound? 2 ThinkingHow do you distinguish between “music” and “sounds” 3 ThinkingAre there animals that you believe can make music and have other sounds? 4 Web Search Find a scientifically-based analysis of the idea of “animal music” versus “animal sounds”. 5 ThinkingIs it useful to study the sounds that animals make? Do animals make music or do they just make sounds?

7. 1 Video Search Find a video that plays the sound that a barn owl makes. Would you consider this music or just a sound? Do animals make music or do they just make sounds?

8. 2 ThinkingHow do you distinguish between “music” and “sounds” Do animals make music or do they just make sounds?

9. 3 ThinkingAre there animals that you believe can make music and have other sounds? Do animals make music or do they just make sounds?

10. 4 Web Search Find a scientifically-based analysis of the idea of “animal music” versus “animal sounds”. Do animals make music or do they just make sounds?

11. 5 ThinkingIs it useful to study the sounds that animals make? Do animals make music or do they just make sounds?