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.
Patrice Berry earned a B. A. in Political Science at Swarthmore College, an M.S.Ed at the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently study college access and completion as a doctoral student at Temple University.  Patrice is currently the Academic Affairs Director at College Track (East Palo Alto), where she manages academic support initiatives designed to promote college access and college completion among first-generation, low-income students.  Ninety-percent of College Track students are accepted to college, and the college graduation rate is 2.5 times higher than the national average.  Prior to joining College Track, Patrice worked for the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, for whom she designed and implemented college access and career readiness curricula.   Patrice recently married and now lives in Oakland, where she sings at local jam sessions in her free time.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Reading Informational Text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person’s life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.

2. How might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?
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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 might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?
This is a bee’s-eye view of the American Lakes camping area, in the southeastern edge of Colorado’s State State Forest State Park. The region brushes right up against the northern edge of Rocky Mountain National Park. Like that more famous—and busier—national park, the State State Forest park features alpine meadows that burst with color as wildflowers bloom in the summer.
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 might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?1
Thinking
What kind of changes occur in different environments as a result of seasons? 2
Video Search
Find a video that portrays the diversity of wildlife and nature one can find at the State Forest State Park in Colorado. What kind of wildlife and nature do you notice in the video? 3
Web Search
What other wildlife and nature can one find at State Forest State Park? 4
Map Search
Find a map that portrays the seasonal geographic range of at least one of kind of animal whose habitat is in Colorado for at least part of the year.
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 might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?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 might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?1
Thinking
What kind of changes occur in different environments as a result of seasons? 2
Video Search
Find a video that portrays the diversity of wildlife and nature one can find at the State Forest State Park in Colorado. What kind of wildlife and nature do you notice in the video? 3
Web Search
What other wildlife and nature can one find at State Forest State Park? 4
Map Search
Find a map that portrays the seasonal geographic range of at least one of kind of animal whose habitat is in Colorado for at least part of the year.
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 might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?1
Thinking
What kind of changes occur in different environments as a result of seasons?
Seasons are correlated with the life cycle of plants and the eating and habitat of animals. For instance, deciduous trees begin to lose their leaves in Fall months and sprout again after the Winter months. Some animals travel away from the cold weather during Winter months and/or to breed.

8. How might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?2
Video Search
Find a video that portrays the diversity of wildlife and nature one can find at the State Forest State Park in Colorado. What kind of wildlife and nature do you notice in the video?
(Possible query: “State Forest State National Park, wildlife and nature”)
Video:
In this video, I notice a moose. The ground is covered with snow, and some of the trees have lost their leaves. This portrayal of the state park illustrates the presence of forest area.

9. How might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?3
Web Search
What other wildlife and nature can one find at State Forest State Park?
(Possible query: “wildlife and nature, Colorado State Forest State Park”)
From the Colorado Parks & Wildlife:
Other animals found at the State Forest State Park include diverse population of birds (like finches and hummingbirds) and trout.

10. How might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?4
Map Search
Find a map that portrays the geographic range or seasonal migration of at least one of kind of animal whose habitat is in Colorado for at least part of the year.
(Possible query: “map, seasonal migration moose”)
Map;
This map conveys the seasonal migration of hummingbirds in North America.

11. How might seasonal changes impact the State Forest State Park?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.