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.
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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.6.7Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.3Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.4Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

2. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?
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Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?
There’s a reason Ireland’s Cliffs of Moher are regularly full of tourists: Sweeping views of the Atlantic. The bird-watching opportunities aren’t bad either.
Visitors willing to take the time can hike from Hag’s Head – the lowest elevation at nearly 400 feet above the sea – to O’Brien’s tower on the north side, 702 feet above the surf. Portions of the hiking trail take you close to the edge, but not too close: the Cliffs of Moher are eroding at various points.
Fans of the movie “The Princess Bride” may recognize Moher as the setting of the “Cliffs of Insanity.” Of course, this photogenic spot has been featured in numerous other films and television shows as well.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?1
Map Search
Find the Cliffs of Moher on a map to see where see where this photogenic area is located in the world. 2
Web Search
Define photogenic? 3
Find a location on the African continent that is considered photogenic. 4
Find a location on the South American continent that is considered photogenic. 5
Find a location on the Asian continent that is considered photogenic.
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?1
Map Search
Find the Cliffs of Moher on a map to see where see where this photogenic area is located in the world. 2
Web Search
Define photogenic? 3
Find a location on the African continent that is considered photogenic. 4
Find a location on the South American continent that is considered photogenic. 5
Find a location on the Asian continent that is considered photogenic.
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?1
Map Search
Find the Cliffs of Moher on a map to see where see where this photogenic area is located in the world.
Using the “maps” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “cliffs of moher”, find the location here:

8. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?2
Web Search
Define photogenic?
(Possible Search Queries: ”define photogenic” “what is photogenic”)
From a Bing search
photogenic
[ ˌfōtəˈjenik ]
ADJECTIVE
(especially of a person) looking attractive in photographs or on film:
"a photogenic child"

9. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?3
Web Search
Find a location on the African continent that is considered photogenic.
(Possible Search Queries: ”photogenic locations africa” “most photogenic locations in the world”)
Examples found here:

10. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?4
Web Search
Find a location on the South American continent that is considered photogenic.
(Possible Search Queries: ”photogenic locations South America” “most photogenic locations in the world”)
Examples found here:

11. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?5
Web Search
Find a location on the Asian continent that is considered photogenic.
(Possible Search Queries: ”photogenic locations Asia” “most photogenic locations in the world”)
Examples found here:

12. What qualities make a person or a location photogenic?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.