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. 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.WHST Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the strengths and limitations of each source in terms of the specific task, purpose, and audience; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and over reliance on any one source and following a standard format for citation.

2. Use Bing Search Tricks to make observations about the Holuhraun lava field.
© Johnathan Ampersand Esper/Aurora Photos
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. Use Bing Search Tricks to make observations about the Holuhraun lava field.
The last recorded eruption of the Holuhraun lava field in Iceland was in Then on Aug 29, 2014, a new fissure opened and a slow but steady flow of lava, steam, and ash began to spew from the ground. It’s still flowing today, having spread a total of 32 square miles. In January, NASA’s Earth Observatory declared it the biggest lava flow Iceland has seen for over 200 years.
Unlike the dramatic volcanic eruptions of mountains that might come to mind when we think of volcanic activity, this lava field, north of the Vatnajökull glacier, doesn’t pack a concentrated explosive force. Instead it flows regularly from the fissure, as if the Earth has sprung a slow leak.
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.

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Web Search
Use Bing Search to find the weather forecast around the Holuhraun lava field. 2
Use Bing Search techniques to convert the temperature of the lava in Celsius to Fahrenheit. 3
Use advanced search techniques to find a scholarly article or reference. 4
Use the Related Searches feature to identify other search terms that would help you find information about the lava field. 5
Use Bing to find a flight to travel to the Holuhraun lava field.
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.

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Web Search
Use Bing Search to find the weather forecast around the Holuhraun lava field. 2
Use Bing Search techniques to convert the temperature of the lava in Celsius to Fahrenheit. 3
Use advanced search techniques to find a scholarly article or reference. 4
Use the Related Searches feature to identify other search terms that would help you find information about the lava field. 5
Use Bing to find a flight to travel to the Holuhraun lava field.
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.

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Web Search
Use Bing Search to find the weather forecast around the Holuhraun lava field.
(Possible Search Queries: holuhraun, weather: iceland highlands)
Students must first locate where the Holuhraun lava field is located. Using the Bing search trick weather:iceland highlights students can identify the weather around the lava field today.

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Web Search
Use Bing Search techniques to convert the temperature of the lava in Celsius to Fahrenheit.
(Possible Search Queries: Holuhraun lava tempurature, Holuhraun lava celcius, 1150 celcius)
Sources
Iceland Review -
Extreme Iceland -
According to the articles the temperature of the lava in Holuhraun is approximately between 1,147-1,188°C.
1,150 degrees celsius is equal to 2,102 degrees fahrenheit.

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Web Search
Use advanced search techniques to find a scholarly article or reference.
(Possible Search Queries: site:edu holuhraun, site:edu "holuhraun")
Sources
Earth Science Picture of the Day -
Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History - Global Volcanism Program -
UC Davis -
Using site:edu in your search term narrows down the results to only .edu sites.

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Web Search
Use the Related Searches feature to identify other search terms that would help you find information about the lava field.
(Possible Search Queries: Holuhraun, Holuhraun Eruption, Holuhraun Lava Field, Holuhraun Iceland, Holuhraun Volcano)
In searching for Holuhraun lava field, related searches that would aid in identifying information would be “Iceland Volcanic Eruption Update” “Eruption in Iceland” “Holuhraun eruption”

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Web Search
Use Bing to find a flight to travel to the Holuhraun lava field.
(Possible Search Queries: holuhraun airport, holuhraun near airport)
Sources
According to the article the nearest airport to the lava field is Akureyri. Bing is able to identify flights from an airport near you to Akureyri

12. Use Bing Search Tricks to make observations about the Holuhraun lava field.
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.