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.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard:

2. Main Critical Thinking Question
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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.

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In the fields outside Beaumont-Hamel in northern France, this battlefield from World War I retains the scars of warfare. The trenches remain and craters made by explosions from shell fire still dot the ground. Wood paths allow visitors to walk through the field without disturbing the evidence of the battle that was fought here.
Today, the site of the Battle of Somme is a memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment, a battalion of soldiers from the region that’s now part of Canada. These soldiers were the first to engage with German troops at the site and suffered considerable losses as a result – the casualty rate was nearly 80 percent.
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.

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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.)

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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.

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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.

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This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.