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 coffeecue, 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.RST Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the precise details of explanations or descriptions.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST Analyze the structure of the relationships among concepts in a text, including relationships among key terms (e.g., force, friction, reaction force, energy).

2. How does glaciation form a fjord?
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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. How does glaciation form a fjord?
On either side of the fjord known as Hjørundfjorden, on Norway’s west coast, the Sunnmøre Alps reach up to, and sometimes above, the clouds. Many small fishing villages line the shores, like Sæbø, the closest village to Skårasalen Mountain, an increasingly popular skiing destination. After a long climb, daring skiers can carve their way down the steep eastern slope of Skårasalen, ending nearly at the waters of the fjord.
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. How does glaciation form a fjord?1
Image Search
Locate images of fjord’s. How would you describe a fjord? 2
Map Search
Where are fjords located? Using Bing maps, label several fjords. 3
Web Search
What is glaciation? 4
Locate a depiction of glacial carving of a fjord. 5
What other geographic features are formed through glaciation?
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. How does glaciation form a fjord?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. How does glaciation form a fjord?1
Image Search
Locate images of fjord’s. How would you describe a fjord? 2
Map Search
Where are fjords located? Using Bing maps, label several fjords. 3
Web Search
What is glaciation? 4
Locate a depiction of glacial carving of a fjord. 5
What other geographic features are formed through glaciation?
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.)

7. How does glaciation form a fjord?1
Image Search
Locate images of fjord’s. How would you describe a fjord?
(Possible Search Query: “fjord”)
Answers will vary. From the images a fjord is a body of water nestled in between steep mountain sides.

8. How does glaciation form a fjord?2
Web Search
Where are fjords located? Using Bing maps, label several fjords.
(Possible Search Queries: “fjord”, “locations of Fjords”)
Sources
Bing Dictionary
Wikipedia:
A fjord is a long narrow coastal inlet with steep sides. Oftentimes they are formed by glacial activity. Fjords can be found in Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, British Columbia and Chile. Students should look at Bing maps to locate these countries and observe the geographic properties of the coast lines that show the fjords.

9. How does glaciation form a fjord?3
Web Search
What is glaciation?
(Possible Search Query: “glaciation”)
Sources
Britannica:
Britannica:
Glaciated areas of Greenland, Antartica and other countries are formed by flowing ice and water from a glacier.

10. How does glaciation form a fjord?4
Image Search
Locate a depiction of glacial carving of a fjord.
(Possible Search Queries in Bing Images: “how do glaciers form a fjord”, “fjord diagram”)
Sources
The Geology of Glaciers:
Imgarcade:
Answers will vary. Students will want to locate a diagram that explains the process of glaciation as it pertains to fjords.

11. How does glaciation form a fjord?5
Web Search
What other geographic features are formed through glaciation?
(Possible Search Queries: “glaciation”, “What do glaciers form”)
Block 6 Science Tours:
Indiana University:
Some geographic features Kettle pond, esker, kame delta

12. How does glaciation form a fjord?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.