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.
Alice Keeler is a mother of 5 and a teacher in Fresno, California. She has her B.A in Mathematics, M.S. in Educational Media Design and Technology and is currently working on a doctorate in Educational Technology with an emphasis in games and simulations. EdTech speaker, blogger, and presenter. Founder of coffeeEDU, a 1 hour conference event for educators. New Media Consortium Horizon report advisory panel member. High school math teacher for 14 years. Currently teaching pre-service teachers curriculum, instruction and technology at California State University Fresno. Teaches online for Fresno Pacific University in the Masters in Educational Technology. Passionate that kids are not failures, researches gamification in education to increase student motivation.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: English Language Arts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W C Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSN.Q.A.1 Use units as a way to understand problems and to guide the solution of multi-step problems; choose and interpret units consistently in formulas; choose and interpret the scale and the origin in graphs and data displays.

2. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why.
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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. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why.
The village of Weiz sits in the hills of Styria, a southeastern state of Austria. Much of Weiz’s economy relies on manufacturing, which can make it seem like an unlikely spot for tourists. However, there are several churches in the town notable for their ornate interiors. In the alpine hills beyond the city are several stalactite caves open to explore as well as hiking and biking trails in the valleys below.
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. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why. 1
Video Search
Use Bing to locate videos of tourist locations in the Austrian village of Weiz. 2
Image Search
Use Bing image search to find examples of the ornate interiors of churches in Weiz. 3
Map Search
Locate the Austrian village of Weiz on a Map. Identify tourist locations in Weiz on the map. Use Bing map tools to map out your trip. 4
Flight Search
Use to plan a flight for your visit. Locate a hotel and describe the amenities and cost. 5
Office
Use Office 365 and create an Excel spreadsheet to create a budget for your trip.
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. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why. 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. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why. 1
Video Search
Use Bing to locate videos of tourist locations in the Austrian village of Weiz. 2
Image Search
Use Bing image search to find examples of the ornate interiors of churches in Weiz. 3
Map Search
Locate the Austrian village of Weiz on a Map. Identify tourist locations in Weiz on the map. Use Bing map tools to map out your trip. 4
Flight Search
Use to plan a flight for your visit. Locate a hotel and describe the amenities and cost. 5
Office
Use Office 365 and create an Excel spreadsheet to create a budget for your trip.
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. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why. 1
Video Search
Use Bing to locate videos of tourist locations in the Austrian village of Weiz.
(Possible Search Queries: “Weiz Austria” )
Sources

8. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why. 2
Image Search
Use Bing image search to find examples of the ornate interiors of churches in Weiz.
(Possible Search Queries: “Weiz Austria church” )
Sources

9. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why. 3
Map Search
Locate the Austrian village of Weiz on a Map. Identify tourist locations in Weiz on the map. Use Bing map tools to map out your trip.
(Possible Search Queries: “Weiz Austria map”)
Churches: B, D, E, F
Caves: A, C

10. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why. 4
Flight Search
Use to plan a flight for your visit. Locate a hotel and describe the amenities and cost.
Sources
Bing flight search-
Round trip flight tickets to Graz, Austria are $2154.
At Garten-Hotel Ochensberger it costs $204 to stay for six nights ($23 a night + taxes and fees). They have a swimming pool, free breakfast, and free parking.

11. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why. 5
Office
Use Office 365 and create an Excel spreadsheet to create a budget for your trip.

12. Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz
Create a plan for visiting the village of Weiz. Describe what you will visit and why.
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.