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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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. And if you are using Windows 8, you can also use the Bing apps to learn more about this location and topic; the Travel and News apps in particular make great teaching tools.
Alice Keeler is a mother of 5 and a teacher in Fresno, California. She has her B.A in Mathematics, M.S. in Educational Media Design and Technology and is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Technology with an emphasis in games and simulations. EdTech speaker, blogger, and presenter. Founder of coffeeEDU, a 1 hour conference event for educators. New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel member. High school math teacher for 14 years. Currently teaching pre-service teachers curriculum, instruction and technology at California State University Fresno. Teaches online for Fresno Pacific University in the Masters in Educational Technology. Passionate that kids are not failures, researches gamification in education to increase student motivation.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: English Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W A Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

2. Create a multi-media presentation about the Chinese New Year
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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. Create a multi-media presentation about the Chinese New Year
If January 1 didn’t work out so well for you, perhaps you can try again by celebrating the start of Chinese New Year. With a calendar based on both the phases of the moon and position of the sun, the start of a new lunisolar year varies from year to year.
And if you’re wondering what all of this has to do with a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, refer to the Chinese zodiac, which identifies this as the year of the ram. You may hear it referred to as the year of the goat or sheep as well, primarily because the Chinese word designated in the zodiac chart can mean either sheep, goat, or ram.
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. Create a multi-media presentation about the Chinese New Year1
Office 365
Use Office 365 to create a PowerPoint. Choose an appropriate theme. 2
Web Search
Choose a position statement concerning the Chinese New Year for your presentation. Identify sources to support your position and properly cite them within the presentation. 3
Image Search
Locate Creative Commons images to include in your presentation. Images should enhance the concept of clearly communicating ideas from the 4 C’s of 21st Century learning. Properly cite images. 4
Digital Literacy
Include multi-media to enhance the presentation. Link to a video, embed a video, insert a sound file, insert an animated image, etc.. 5
Utilize titles on the slides of the PowerPoint to create a clear outline of your position.
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.)

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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. Create a multi-media presentation about the Chinese New Year1
Office 365
Use Office 365 to create a PowerPoint. Choose an appropriate theme. 2
Web Search
Choose a position statement concerning the Chinese New Year for your presentation. Identify sources to support your position and properly cite them within the presentation. 3
Image Search
Locate Creative Commons images to include in your presentation. Images should enhance the concept of clearly communicating ideas from the 4 C’s of 21st Century learning. Properly cite images. 4
Digital Literacy
Include multi-media to enhance the presentation. Link to a video, embed a video, insert a sound file, insert an animated image, etc.. 5
Utilize titles on the slides of the PowerPoint to create a clear outline of your position.
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. Create a multi-media presentation about the Chinese New Year1
Office 365
Use Office 365 to create a PowerPoint. Choose an appropriate theme.
(Possible Search Queries: Office 365 PowerPoint, Office 365 PowerPoint Tutorial, How-to, Step-by-Step etc)
Sources
Youtube:
Alicekeeler.com:
Students should access the resources above or additional resources to learn the basics of creating a powerpoint presentation. The theme should be appropriate to the content matter.

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Web Search
Choose a position statement concerning the Chinese New Year for your presentation. Identify sources to support your position and properly cite them within the presentation.
(Possible Search Queries: How to create a position statement, Chinese New Year Position statement, Chinese New Year, how to cite websites, )
Sources
Wikihow:
Readwritethink.org:
Purdue Online Writing Lab:
Wikipedia:
Students should be able to access reliable resources to teach them how to find and cite a position statement concerning the Chinese new year.

9. Create a multi-media presentation about the Chinese New Year3
Web Search
Locate Creative Commons images to include in your presentation. Images should enhance the concept of clearly communicating ideas from the 4 C’s of 21st Century learning. Properly cite images.
(Possible Search Queries Creative Commons Images, How to cite online Images:)
Sources:
WikiHow:
SmallBusiness.chron:
Technorms:
Students should be able to locate appropriate resources to tell them how to find and cite creative commons images for their presentation.

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Web Search
Include multi-media to enhance the presentation. Link to a video, embed a video, insert a sound file, insert an animated image, etc..
(Possible Search Queries: How to include multimedia in powerpoint, How to embed video in Powerpoint, How to insert a sound file into Powerpoint, Inserting an animated image into Powerpoint)
Sources
Youtube:
Youtube:
Youtube:
Microsoft Office Support:
Wikihow:
Students should be able to search for and access any number of video and/or text tutorials to demonstrate how they are to insert multimedia into their presentation.

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Office 365
Utilize titles on the slides of the PowerPoint to create a clear outline of your position.
(Possible Search Queries: Titling Powerpoint Slides, Clear Powerpoint Titles, )
Sources
Virtual 508:
Speaking About Presenting:
LauraMFoley:
Sixminutes:
Students should be able to find an abundance of tutorials and guidelines to show them how to effectively title each slide in their presentation to communicate a coherent position.

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This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.