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.
Remember, you can always send feedback to the Bing in the Classroom team at You can learn more about the program at bing.com/classroom and follow the daily lessons on our Partners In Learning site.
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: Science and Technical Subjects
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST Compare and contrast the information gained from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained from reading a text on the same topic.

2. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects?
© Stephen Frink/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. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects?
Many cities have taken up the idea of a Memorial Day “field of flags” to honor U.S. enlisted personnel who died in combat. The idea is simple and powerful. Each flag represents one life, and in the case of Boston’s field of flags, the scene is pretty sobering. For last year’s display in Boston Common, there were 33,000 flags planted in a field. That’s the number of Massachusetts natives who fell in service from the Civil War to the present.
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. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects? 1
Web Search
What are you referring to when you talk of a human’s “physiology”? 2
What are you referring to when you talk of a human’s “psychology”? 3
What specific experiments will Cousteau’s team conduct during Mission 31? 4
Thinking
What may be physiological affects of being in the deep ocean for long periods of time? 5
What may be psychological affects of being in the deep ocean for long periods of time? 6
How are the goals of Mission 31 similar to the goals of the International Space Station?
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. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects? 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. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects? 1
Web Search
What are you referring to when you talk of a human’s “physiology”? 2
What are you referring to when you talk of a human’s “psychology”? 3
What specific experiments will Cousteau’s team conduct during Mission 31? 4
Thinking
What may be physiological affects of being in the deep ocean for long periods of time? 5
What may be psychological affects of being in the deep ocean for long periods of time? 6
How are the goals of Mission 31 similar to the goals of the International Space Station?
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. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects? 1
Web Search
What are you referring to when you talk of a human’s “physiology”?
(Possible queries: “what is physiology” “human physiology”)
Physiology refers to the way in which a human body works physically
From the Bing Search Page:
Physiology –
1. study of functioning of living things: the branch of biology that deals with the internal workings of living things, including functions such as metabolism, respiration, and reproduction, rather than with their shape or structure
2. body's internal processes: the way a particular body or organism works

8. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects? 2
Web Search
What are you referring to when you talk of a human’s “psychology”?
(Possible query: “What is psychology”)
Psychology refers to the way in which a human’s mental state operates and resulting behavior
From the Bing Search Page:
Psychology –
study of human mind: the scientific study of the human mind and mental states, and of human and animal behavior
characteristic mental makeup: the characteristic temperament and associated behavior of a person or group, or that exhibited by those engaged in an activity

9. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects? 3
Web Search
What specific experiments will Cousteau’s team conduct during Mission 31?
(Possible queries: “Mission 31” “Fabien Cousteau research mission 31”)
From
Cousteau's team will lead human physiological and psychological experiments to determine how long humans can live without the sun, the effects of long-term high pressure and Divers Alert Network (DAN) research team will study prolonged confinement on brain function and the physiological effects after long-term saturation diving.

10. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects? 4
Thinking
What may be physiological affects of being in the deep ocean for long periods of time?
Students should discuss specific effects on the human body and it’s physical functioning in order to demonstrate a grasp of the word “physiology”. Students should support their theories with reasoning with room for creativity.

11. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects? 5
Thinking
What may be physiological affects of being in the deep ocean for long periods of time?
Students should discuss specific effects on the human body and it’s physical functioning in order to demonstrate a grasp of the word “phycology”. Students should support their theories with reasoning with room for creativity.

12. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects? 6
Thinking
How are the goals of Mission 31 similar to the goals of the International Space Station?
(Possible query: “International Space Station goals”)
In a search for information on the International Space Station, students should discover that part of the goals in long-term residence in space is to study the effects of the space environment on humans physically and psychologically.

13. Fabien Cousteau’s study of the physiological and psychological effects of staying in the deep ocean for long periods of time means he is studying what human aspects?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.