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.3.3CCSS.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. 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.

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3. In the mid-1700s, southwest of London, near the village of Cobham, the Honorable Charles Hamilton designed the gardens known as Painshill. The centerpiece of his creation is this crystal grotto. With a base and frame of brick, wood, and plaster, the surface of this above-ground cavern gleams and sparkles with hundreds of thousands of crystals, including quartz, fluorite, and calcite. After falling into disrepair during the 20 th century, the crystal grotto was fully restored to its original splendor in 2013. While a hand-crafted cave may seem like a strange endeavor, it’s just one part of Hamilton’s achievement: a perfect example of the English landscape garden. Unlike the meticulously manicured formal gardens that became popular in France during the preceding centuries, the English landscape garden of the 1700s was meant to give the visitor a sense of being immersed in an idealized wilderness. Indeed, at the Painshill gardens, it’s easy to think that it all simply happened to grow this way, with the gardens echoing the natural flow of a true wilderness, even though they were all carefully engineered. What is a crystal and what is the process of crystallization?

4. 1 Image Search When you search for images of crystals, what do you see? How would you describe them? 2 Web Search How is a crystal defined? 3 Web Search What is an atom? What is a molecule? 4 Web Search How do crystals form? 5 Web Search What are some examples of crystals that are found in nature? What is a crystal and what is the process of crystallization?

5. 5 Minutes What is a crystal and what is the process of crystallization?

6. 1 Image Search When you search for images of crystals, what do you see? How would you describe them? 2 Web Search How is a crystal defined? 3 Web Search What is an atom? What is a molecule? 4 Web Search How do crystals form? 5 Web Search What are some examples of crystals that are found in nature? What is a crystal and what is the process of crystallization?

7. 1 Image Search When you search for images of crystals, what do you see? How would you describe them? What is a crystal and what is the process of crystallization?

8. 2 Web Search How is a crystal defined? What is a crystal and what is the process of crystallization?

9. 3 Web Search What is an atom? What is a molecule? What is a crystal and what is the process of crystallization?

10. 4 Web Search How do crystals form? What is a crystal and what is the process of crystallization?

11. 5 Web Search What are some examples of crystals that are found in nature? What is a crystal and what is the process of crystallization?