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

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3. The 400 mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan’s Gobustan National Park are generally quiet – simmering slowly and making for great video and photo opportunities. But every couple decades, one of the mud pots erupts, sending a vent of flame hundreds of feet into the sky and blasting tons of mud onto the landscape. Don’t let those geologic histrionics keep you away. Gobustan offers many incredible experiences for those who make the trek to this park, situated between the Greater Caucasus mountain range and the shores of the Caspian Sea. Though it’s now an arid climate, the region was once a lush wilderness that supported some of humanity’s oldest civilizations. Those early communities left their mark on the landscape with rock carvings made as much as 40,000 years ago. The petroglyphs, scratched onto boulders and the sides of cliffs, are now protected inside the park. Insert Main Critical Thinking Question

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