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.8.2Determine 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.8.7Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.8Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

2. Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful? © Ethan Welty/Aurora Photos

3. Extending south from the Canadian border to the northern border of Mount Rainier National Park, the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest covers 1.7 million acres of western Washington State. Though a short hike into the woods gives the illusion of total isolation from humanity, these old-growth trees and glacial lakes are just an hour’s drive east of Seattle. In the early 1900s, when the Mount Baker and Snoqualmie National Forests operated separately, the newly established National Forest Service assigned rangers to patrol both forests to prevent fires. To ensure that prospective rangers were ready to handle this rugged terrain, the Forest Service administered a 3-day test that measured would- be rangers’ ability to, among other things, fell a tree 10 or more inches in diameter with an ax. The tricky part was that they had to direct the fall of the tree with such precision that the trunk would hit a small target—a stake that would be driven into the ground when the tree fell upon it. Prospective rangers also had to memorize and recite a biscuit recipe and take a timed test in which they had to pack a horse with enough gear to last its rider five days. Think you have what it takes to be a forest ranger, 1905-style? Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful?

4. 1 Web Search How does one become a forest ranger today? Do forest rangers have to take this same test today? 2 Thinking Have you ever had to take a test? What skills did this test evaluate? 3 Thinking What are the benefits of tests? What are the drawbacks of tests? 4 Thinking/ Web Search Consider a job or career that you would enjoy having. Does this position require a test? Check the web to be sure. 5 ThinkingIf you had to design an exam, what would be the format? Why? Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful?

5. 5 Minutes Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful?

6. 1 Web Search How does one become a forest ranger today? Do forest rangers have to take this same test today? 2 Thinking Have you ever had to take a test? What skills did this test evaluate? 3 Thinking What are the benefits of tests? What are the drawbacks of tests? 4 Thinking/ Web Search Consider a job or career that you would enjoy having. Does this position require a test? Check the web to be sure. 5 ThinkingIf you had to design an exam, what would be the format? Why? Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful?

7. 1 Web Search How does one become a forest ranger today? Do forest rangers have to take this same test today? Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful?

8. 2 Thinking Have you ever had to take a test? What skills did this test evaluate? Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful?

9. 3 Thinking What are the benefits of tests? What are the drawbacks of tests? Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful?

10. 4 Thinking/ Web Search Consider a job or career that you would enjoy having. Does this position require a test? Check the web to be sure. Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful?

11. 5 ThinkingIf you had to design an exam, what would be the format? Why? Under which circumstances are tests useful? Under which circumstances might they not be as useful?