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. Here in northern California, in the valley of the Sacramento River, five wildlife refuges and three wildlife management areas comprise the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Together, they make up almost 70,000 acres of wetland and river-bank habitat vital to migratory birds and other wildlife. As an essential portion of the Pacific Flyway – the well-charted passage that migratory birds follow along the Pacific Coast of North America – the Sacramento NWR provides critical habitat for nearly 300 species of waterfowl and other birds. Each season brings a host of new birds, as other species move on, following the call of their specific migration and mating habits. Even with California’s current drought – one of the worst ever recorded – this past winter the waterfowl count showed 5 to 6 million ducks and geese in these protected wetlands. That’s almost two-thirds of the total waterfowl population that passes through the Pacific Flyway during winter. Insert Main Critical Thinking Question

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