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 Nell Bang-Jensen is a teacher and theater artist living in Philadelphia, PA. Her passion for arts education has led her to a variety of roles including developing curriculum for Philadelphia Young Playwrights and teaching at numerous theaters and schools around the city. She works with playwrights from ages four to ninety on developing new work and is especially interested in alternative literacies and theater for social change. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she currently works in the Artistic Department of the Wilma Theater and, in addition to teaching, is a freelance actor and dramaturg. In 2011, Nell was named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and spent her fellowship year traveling to seven countries studying how people get their names. This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Reading—Informational Text CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

2. What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them? © Harpur Garden Library/Corbis

3. With 40 acres of gardens and greenhouses, springtime at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden means bursts of color everywhere you look. The garden does have a direct role in scientific research at the college, with students and faculty of botany, etymology, and other disciplines finding much to study in the gardens. But for the population of Cambridge, England, and visitors from around the globe, the Botanic Gardens provide an experience that’s hard to beat. For the studious gardener, every plant tended here is also documented in the Botanic library database. For the rest of us, it’s essentially a park, where every tree, flower, and shrub is labeled, so you know exactly what’s tickling your fancy or making your allergies act up. What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them?

4. 1 Web Search/Thi nking What is tree identification? Can you think of a situation where being able to identify trees (and other plants) would be important? 2 Web Search What are three main ways that people identify trees? 3 Image Search Conduct a search of images of different trees. Based on their various features, how could you tell them apart from each other? 4 Web Search What is one tree that grows where you live and what are the common features of that tree? 5 Web Search What is another tree that grows where you live and what are the common features of that tree? What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them?

5. 5 Minutes What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them?

6. 1 Web Search/Thi nking What is tree identification? Can you think of a situation where being able to identify trees (and other plants) would be important? 2 Web Search What are three main ways that people identify trees? 3 Image Search Conduct a search of images of different trees. Based on their various features, how could you tell them apart from each other? 4 Web Search What is one tree that grows where you live and what are the common features of that tree? 5 Web Search What is another tree that grows where you live and what are the common features of that tree? What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them?

7. 1 Web Search/Thi nking What is tree identification? Can you think of a situation where being able to identify trees (and other plants) would be important? What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them?

8. 2 Web Search What are three main ways that people identify trees? What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them?

9. 3 Image Search Conduct a search of images of different trees. Based on their various features, how could you tell them apart from each other? What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them?

10. 4 Web Search What is one tree that grows where you live and what are the common features of that tree? What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them?

11. 5 Web Search What is another tree that grows where you live and what are the common features of that tree? What are two different kinds of trees that grow where you live? How are they different from each other and how could you identify them?