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.6.1Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.2Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
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).

2. How does Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures?
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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 Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures?
In English, it’s Loch Benevean. But if you prefer Celtic, and challenging spelling, we’re gazing across the waters of Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin, one of several lakes in Glen Affric, an ecologically diverse National Nature Reserve in the northwestern Scottish Highlands.
With a varied landscape comprised of moors and mountains, many covered with centuries-old Caledonian pines, Glen Affric’s a popular destination for outdoor adventure. In a couple months, many will cast their lines into Loch Benevean, hoping to catch one of the abundant trout that swim its waters.
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 Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures? 1
Map Search
Find Glen Affric on a map to visualize its location. 2
Thinking
What do you associate with Celtic Culture based on what you know? 3
Web Search
Who were the Celtic people? How do their origins and organization differ from other ancient civilizations? 4
What is the origin of the Celtic language? 5
Video Search
Find a video of an aspect of Celtic culture (i.e. music or dance)
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 Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures? 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 Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures? 1
Map Search
Find Glen Affric on a map to visualize its location. 2
Thinking
What do you associate with Celtic Culture based on what you know? 3
Web Search
Who were the Celtic people? How do their origins and organization differ from other ancient civilizations? 4
What is the origin of the Celtic language? 5
Video Search
Find a video of an aspect of Celtic culture (i.e. music or dance)
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. How does Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures? 1
Map Search
Find Glen Affric on a map to visualize its location.
Using the “maps” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “Glen Affric”, find the location here:

8. How does Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures? 2
Thinking
What do you associate with Celtic Culture based on what you know?
Students should share their associations with Celtic Culture

9. How does Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures? 3
Web Search
Who were the Celtic people? How do their origins and organization differ from other ancient civilizations?
(Possible Search Queries: ”celtic culture” “celtic origins”)
From Froggdropping (
Celtic culture is difficult to define. It's fair to say that the Celts weren't an ancient culture, in the same way that the Egyptians or Persians were. The easiest way of describing the Celts is by way of imagining various tribes, scattered across Europe, that were bonded (loosely) by a similar language, customs and traditions.

10. How does Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures? 4
Web Search
What is the origin of the Celtic language?
(Possible Search Queries: ”celtic language origin”)
From About World Languages (
Celtic languages descended from a common ancestral language called Proto-Celtic, a member of the Indo-European language family. Reconstruction of Proto-Celtic shows that it was a conservative language that had retained many features of Proto-Indo-European, the hypothetical ancestor of all Indo-European languages.
Although the original homeland of the Celts cannot be determined with absolute accuracy, it is generally believed that they appeared in the eastern part of central Europe around the 5th century BC and subsequently spread throughout most of the European continent, reaching the Black Sea, the Anatolian Peninsula, Spain, Italy, and the British Isles. Today, however, Celtic languages are limited to a few areas in the British Isles, on the peninsula of Brittany in France, and in emigrant communities in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

11. How does Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures? 5
Video Search
Find a video of an aspect of Celtic culture (i.e. music or dance)
Using the “video” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “celtic” + “video” or “music”, find an example of this search here:

12. How does Celtic Culture compare to other
ancient cultures?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.