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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. 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 B Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W D Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

2 How would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
© Michael Poliza/Getty Images 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 would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
The African bush elephant is the largest living land mammal on Earth. Lucky for us, they’re vegetarians. Adult African elephants have no predators aside from humans, though lions and crocodiles will sometimes attack newborns and calves. Poaching remains the greatest threat to elephant populations. Scientists are using the animal’s well-documented intelligence as part of their effort to dissuade hunting of the beasts. It’s thought that elephant intellect is on par with chimpanzees and dolphins. Observations in the wild net new discoveries all the time about elephant cognition and social behavior. 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 would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
1 Web Search Define poaching. 2 What are the various benefits poachers derive from hunting? 3 What are the potential effects of poaching? 4 What potential benefit(s) to the environment/ecosystem do poachers provide? 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 would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
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 would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
1 Web Search Define poaching. 2 What are the various motives of poachers? 3 What are the potential effects of poaching? 4 What are various methods people have used to discourage poaching? 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 would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
1 Web Search Define Poaching? (Possible Search Queries: “Define Poaching,” “What is Poaching” ) Sources Wikipedia Poaching is essentially illegal hunting. However poaching practices can include such activities as fishing or hunting without a permit or using illegal means to hunt or killing any sort of animal on an endangered list.

8 How would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
2 Web Search What are the various motives of poachers? (Possible Search Queries: “Poachers motives,” “Why do people practice poaching”) Sources Wikipedia Encyclopedia of Earth Motives of poachers vary from region to region. Some poachers hunt for meat or other animal products. Others poach to procure various animal products for sale in local or international markets.

9 How would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
3 Web Search What are the potential effects of poaching? (Possible Search Queries: “Effects of Poaching,” “Impact of Poaching” ) Sources Wikipedia Poaching can lead to extinction of various species. Also, the killing of a particular forest animal may affect seed distribution which can have a negative effect on forest growth. The spread of certain types of diseases. For example, the Ebola virus has been associate with the mass slaughter of apes and the consumption of their meat.

10 How would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
4 Web Search What are various methods people have used to discourage poaching? (Possible Search Queries: “How to discourage poaching,” “Methods to discourage poaching” ) Sources Wikipedia Rhinos.org Various methods to discourage poaching include: Using robotic animal decoys to lure poachers out into the open to be arrested. In South Africa a groups injects poison into Rhino horns which allows authorities to track the horns and poisons the consumer. Other groups have used paramilitary enforcement tactics such as unmanned aerial vehicles. Some governments discourage poaching by seizing and destroying large quantities of animal product stock such as ivory.

11 How would you convince poachers to discontinue their practices?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.


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