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 BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.com. You can learn more about the program at bing.com/classroom and follow the daily lessons on the Microsoft Educator Network. BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.combing.com/classroomMicrosoft Educator Network 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, take a Skype lesson on today’s topic, or invite a guest speaker to expand on today’s subject. And if you are using Windows 8, the panoramas in the MSN Travel App are great teaching tools. We have thousands of other education apps available on Windows here. Skype in the Classroom another class take a Skype lesson invite a guest speaker MSN Travel App here Nell Bang-Jensen is a teacher and theater artist living in Philadelphia, PA. Her passion for arts education has led her to a variety of roles including developing curriculum for Philadelphia Young Playwrights and teaching at numerous theaters and schools around the city. She works with playwrights from ages four to ninety on developing new work and is especially interested in alternative literacies and theater for social change. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she currently works in the Artistic Department of the Wilma Theater and, in addition to teaching, is a freelance actor and dramaturg. In 2011, Nell was named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and spent her fellowship year traveling to seven countries studying how people get their names. This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Reading—Informational Text CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

2. What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about? © Norbert Rosing/Getty Images

3. Belugas have several defining characteristics that set them apart from other whales. They have no dorsal fin, and among all whales, they have the highest percentage of blubber on their bodies. The beluga is also one of the most talkative cetaceans in the world’s oceans. With highly developed echolocation senses belugas give a near-constant stream of chirps and chatter as they swim, earning them the nickname “canary of the sea.” The beluga whale’s pale white skin probably makes for good camouflage when it’s time to surface for air in the icy Arctic waters it calls home. But only the adults have the snowy flesh – beluga babies are born brownish-gray and gradually lighten as they age. What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about?

4. 1 Video Search Find a video of Beluga whales “talking” to each other. Can you understand what they’re saying? How are they communicating? 2 Web Search Beluga whales produce sound to communicate and for echolocation. What is an example of this? 3 Web Search How are the different sounds that Beluga whales make categorized? 4 Web Search Beluga whales, like people, also use non-vocal communication. What does this mean and is an example of this? 5 Web Search What are three different things one whale might need to say to another whale? What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about?

5. 5 Minutes What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about?

6. 1 Video Search Find a video of Beluga whales “talking” to each other. Can you understand what they’re saying? How are they communicating? 2 Web Search Beluga whales produce sound to communicate and for echolocation. What is an example of this? 3 Web Search How are the different sounds that Beluga whales make categorized? 4 Web Search Beluga whales, like people, also use non-vocal communication. What does this mean and is an example of this? 5 Web Search What are three different things one whale might need to say to another whale? What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about?

7. 1 Video Search Find a video of Beluga whales “talking” to each other. Can you understand what they’re saying? How are they communicating? What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about?

8. 2 Web Search Beluga whales produce sound to communicate and for echolocation. What is an example of this? What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about?

9. 3 Web Search How are the different sounds that Beluga whales make categorized? What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about?

10. 4 Web Search Beluga whales, like people, also use non-vocal communication. What does this mean and is an example of this? What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about?

11. 5 Web Search What are three different things one whale might need to say to another whale? What do the “talkative” Beluga whales talk to each other about?