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.
Ja'Dell Davis is a Los Angeles native who currently lives in New York City. She works in the Youth Services Department at the Educational Alliance as the Assistant Director for Higher Education Initiatives, where she specifically oversees college prep programming for high school seniors, and academic enrichment programming for middle school students. Ja’Dell previously taught high school in Philadelphia public schools, and implemented college access programming at Chester High School in Chester, Pennsylvania. 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. This fall, she will begin her doctoral studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to her 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.7.1Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.2Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.3Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).

2. What are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks?
© Frans Lanting/Corbis
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 are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks?
Snaking westward through southern Brazil, the Iguazu River eventually drops off the Paraná Plateau, forming the magnificent Iguazu Falls. The waterfall marks the point where the river crosses into Argentina. Both Brazil and Argentina have established national parks on either side of the falls, which together total more than 850 square miles of protected habitat for many rare and endangered species.
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 are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks? 1
Map Search
Find Iguazu Falls to see its location and the nearby river in relation to both Brazil and Argentina. 2
Image Search
Find a picture of the Iguazu Falls. 3
Web Search
What are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? 4
Which language is commonly spoken in Brazil? Which language is commonly spoken in Argentina? 5
Thinking
What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks?
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 are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks? 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 are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks? 1
Map Search
Find Iguazu Falls to see its location and the nearby river in relation to both Brazil and Argentina. 2
Image Search
Find a picture of the Iguazu Falls. 3
Web Search
What are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? 4
Which language is commonly spoken in Brazil? Which language is commonly spoken in Argentina? 5
Thinking
What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks?
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 are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks? 1
Map Search
Find Iguazu Falls to see its location and the nearby river in relation to both Brazil and Argentina.
Using the “maps” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “Iguazu falls” find the location here:
( ). Zoom out to see this feature in relation to the area around it, finding the borders of Brazil and Argentina.

8. What are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks? 2
Image Search
Find a picture of the Iguazu Falls
Using the “images” link on the Bing search page and the search term “Iguazu Falls”, find pictures that give a view of this natural scene here: (

9. What are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks? 3
Web Search
What are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls?
(Possible queries “Iguazu River”)
Searching for the Iguazu River will lead to information about the National Parks established in Brazil and Argentina around this natural scene.
From Wikipedia (
Continuing west, the river drops off a plateau, forming Iguazu Falls. The falls are within national parks in both Brazil, Iguaçu National Park, and Argentina, Iguazú National Park.

10. What are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks? 4
Web Search
Which language is commonly spoken in Brazil? Which language is commonly spoken in Argentina?
(Possible queries: “official language Brazil” “official language Argentina”)
The search results page provides direct information about the languages spoken in these countries.
The official language spoken in Brazil is Portuguese.
The official language spoken in Argentina is Spanish

11. What are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks? 5
Thinking
What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks?
Students may be able to conclude from the information gathered that the different languages spoken in these countries accounts for the difference in spelling of the name of the parks. Students may be able to figure out that despite the spelling and language differences, the pronunciation of the name for each country is similar.

12. What are the names of the National Parks established by Brazil and Argentina on either side of the falls? What accounts for the slight difference in the names of these parks?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.