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.3.3CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. 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.

2. Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat? © Frans Lanting/plainpicture

3. Jellies have no bones or cartilage, no heart to pump blood, nor even a brain to control a central nervous system. These strange, undulating sea creatures don’t have heads either. Yet this species still manages to turn quite a few heads with its brilliantly colored tentacles and pinstriped bell. When not lowering its tentacles into the water in hopes of snaring a fish, the flower hat jelly coils them up, as seen here. Found in the waters of the Pacific Ocean near the southern reaches of Japan, and in the Atlantic near Argentina and Brazil, the flower hat jelly will swim either just below the surface, or closer to the sea floor – an unusual behavior for jellies. At no more than 6 inches in diameter, the flower hat jelly feeds on small fish, caught and stung with those tentacles. And though the sting isn’t deadly for humans, it does hurt and leaves a bright rash on the skin. Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat?

4. 1 Video Search Find a video of a jellyfish eating. After watching this, how would you describe how jellyfish eat? 2 Web Search What do jellyfish eat? 3 Web Search Where is the “mouth” of a jellyfish? How is it different from the mouths of many other animals? 4 Web Search How do jellyfish digest their food? 5 Web Search How do jellyfish capture their prey? Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat?

5. 5 Minutes Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat?

6. 1 Video Search Find a video of a jellyfish eating. After watching this, how would you describe how jellyfish eat? 2 Web Search What do jellyfish eat? 3 Web Search Where is the “mouth” of a jellyfish? How is it different from the mouths of many other animals? 4 Web Search How do jellyfish digest their food? 5 Web Search How do jellyfish capture their prey? Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat?

7. 1 Video Search Find a video of a jellyfish eating. After watching this, how would you describe how jellyfish eat? Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat?

8. 2 Web Search What do jellyfish eat? Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat?

9. 3 Web Search Where is the “mouth” of a jellyfish? How is it different from the mouths of many other animals? Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat?

10. 4 Web Search How do jellyfish digest their food? Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat?

11. 5 Web Search How do jellyfish capture their prey? Without a mouth, how do jellyfish eat?