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 Texts 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. © Matthew Kuhns/Tandem Stills + Motion What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports? © Getty Images

3. On the north-central coast of Vietnam, in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, a place full of incredible sights, lies Sơn Đoòng Cave, the world’s largest known cave. How large? Its biggest chamber alone is over 3 miles long, 660 feet high, and nearly 500 feet wide. Its stalagmites tower up to 230 feet above the cave’s floor. You’d think a cave this big would be difficult to miss, but the entrance of Sơn Đoòng wasn’t found until 1991, and then the cave itself wasn’t surveyed until 2009 and 2010. Among Sơn Đoòng’s many surprises is that rainforest you see here – it isn’t outside the cave, it’s within. A sinkhole up on the surface allows sunlight into a portion of Sơn Đoòng, and seeds and spores that have drifted in over the years took root in the cave’s damp soil. So a spelunking venture here will reveal a magical underground environment on a scale you’ll find nowhere else, plus a bonus visit into a hidden jungle. What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports?

4. 1 Web Search What defines an adventure sport? 2 Thinking Have you ever participated in snorkeling, scuba diving, rock climbing, or any other adventurous sport? If so, how was your experience? Do you know anyone else who has participated? 3 Web Search What is spelunking? How does one participate in this activity? 4 Web Search What about human nature makes participating in adventure sports appealing? 5 Thinking Is there an adventure sport that you would stay away from? What about the sport would make it off-limits for you? What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports?

5. 5 Minutes What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports?

6. 1 Web Search What defines an adventure sport? 2 Thinking Have you ever participated in snorkeling, scuba diving, rock climbing, or any other adventurous sport? If so, how was your experience? Do you know anyone else who has participated? 3 Web Search What is spelunking? How does one participate in this activity? 4 Web Search What about human nature makes participating in adventure sports appealing? 5 Thinking Is there an adventure sport that you would stay away from? What about the sport would make it off-limits for you? What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports?

7. 1 Web Search What defines an adventure sport? What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports?

8. 2 Thinking Have you ever participated in snorkeling, scuba diving, rock climbing, or any other adventurous sport? If so, how was your experience? Do you know anyone else who has participated? What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports?

9. 3 Web Search What is spelunking? How does one participate in this activity? What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports?

10. 4 Web Search What about human nature makes participating in adventure sports appealing? What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports?

11. 5 Thinking Is there an adventure sport that you would stay away from? What about the sport would make it off-limits for you? What adventurous sport would you most like to try? What is the appeal of participating in adventurous sports?