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 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: Speaking & Listening
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.1.cPose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.1.dReview the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.6.2Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.

2. How can we use perspective in our everyday lives?
© Jeff Clay/Tandem Still + Motion
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 can we use perspective in our everyday lives?
Most photographs of Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park depict the sunrise as seen through the arch. And there’s good reason for that: It’s as if Mesa Arch burst up from the Earth expressly to frame the sun’s arrival each morning. But we also like how this less-common view, looking down on the arch, shows the contrast of the light against the still-shady stones of the exterior as the rocks are lit by the sunrays peering through.
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 can we use perspective in our everyday lives?1
Web Search
What is perspective? Find a definition, and then explain it in your own words? 2
Image Search
Find an image of Mesa Arch that gives a view of the sunrise through the arch. How is your view of the surrounding area different? What is the benefit of seeing this image from different angles? 3
Thinking
Do people have perspectives? What does it mean to hold a perspective as a human being? 4
Have you every disagreed with someone? What was your perspective? What was theirs? 5
How important is it to consider the perspective of other people? Is it helpful to think this way? Why or why not?
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 can we use perspective in our everyday lives?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 can we use perspective in our everyday lives?1
Web Search
What is perspective? Find a definition, and then explain it in your own words? 2
Image Search
Find an image of Mesa Arch that gives a view of the sunrise through the arch. How is your view of the surrounding area different? What is the benefit of seeing this image from different angles? 3
Thinking
Do people have perspectives? What does it mean to hold a perspective as a human being? 4
Have you every disagreed with someone? What was your perspective? What was theirs? 5
How important is it to consider the perspective of other people? Is it helpful to think this way? Why or why not?
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 can we use perspective in our everyday lives?1
Web Search
What is perspective? Find a definition, and then explain it in your own words?
(Possible queries: “define perspective” )
From Bing search:
noun
the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point: See also linear perspective and aerial perspective.
"a perspective drawing"
a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view:
"most guidebook history is written from the editor's perspective"

8. How can we use perspective in our everyday lives?2
Image Search
Find an image of Mesa Arch that gives a view of the sunrise through the arch. How is your view of the surrounding area different? What is the benefit of seeing this image from different angles?
Using the “images” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “mesa arch”, find an image from this perspective here:
Students may respond to the difference between the main image and the image they found on the web, pointing out differences, things they would have missed by only viewing one version. They should discuss benefits of seeing the image from various angles/perspectives

9. How can we use perspective in our everyday lives?3
Thinking
Do people have perspectives? What does it mean to hold a perspective as a human being?
Students may discuss the idea of holding a perspective as a human being.

10. How can we use perspective in our everyday lives?4
Thinking
Have you every disagreed with someone? What was your perspective? What was theirs?
Students may discuss experiences disagreeing with someone else’s perspective. They should explain the differing perspectives to demonstrate understanding of what it means to have a different perspective, whether one agrees or not.

11. How can we use perspective in our everyday lives?5
Thinking
How important is it to consider the perspective of other people? Is it helpful to think this way? Why or why not?
Students should express the extent to which they value different perspectives and consider the value in being able to engage with other perspectives besides their own.

12. How can we use perspective in our everyday lives?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.