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 our Partners In Learning site. BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.combing.com/classroomPartners 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.Skype in the Classroom 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.RST.9-10.6CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.9-10.6 Analyze the author's purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, defining the question the author seeks to address. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.9-10.8CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.9-10.8 Assess the extent to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author's claim or a recommendation for solving a scientific or technical problem. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.8CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.8 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. Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet. © Piotr Naskrecki/Corbis

3. How do you know if it’s a grasshopper on that leaf and not a katydid or cricket? Look at the antennae. Crickets and katydids usually have long antennae, sometimes longer than their bodies. But grasshopper antennae are short, sometimes even resembling horns. Most grasshoppers employ some type of camouflage to avoid predators, though there are many colorful exceptions among the 11,000 known species of these insects. Still, they’re popular prey not just for birds and reptiles; humans have a long history of eating grasshoppers, too. In parts of Asia, Central and South America, and the Middle East, grasshoppers are an important source of protein in the diets of various cultures. Eating insects like grasshoppers is still rare among North Americans, but that may be changing. A growing industry is trying to introduce insects to American diets as an ecologically friendlier, healthy alternative to meat consumption. Would you eat a grasshopper? Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet.

4. 1 Video Search Locate a video that shows ways to use insects as a food source. 2 Web SearchWhat are the nutritional benefits of eating insects? 3 Web Search Identify a North American company that is trying to introduce crickets into the American diet. 4 Web SearchHow are insects more environmentally sustainable as a food source? 5 Thinking What marketing scheme would help to change the attitudes of Americans towards eating insects? Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet.

5. 5 Minutes Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet.

6. 1 Video Search Locate a video that shows ways to use insects as a food source. 2 Web SearchWhat are the nutritional benefits of eating insects? 3 Web Search Identify a North American company that is trying to introduce crickets into the American diet. 4 Web SearchHow are insects more environmentally sustainable as a food source? 5 Thinking What marketing scheme would help to change the attitudes of Americans towards eating insects? Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet.

7. 1 Video Search Locate a video that shows ways to use insects as a food source. Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet.

8. 2 Web SearchWhat are the nutritional benefits of eating insects? Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet.

9. 3 Web Search Identify a North American company that is trying to introduce crickets into the American diet. Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet.

10. 4 Web SearchHow are insects more environmentally sustainable as a food source? Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet.

11. 5 Thinking What marketing scheme would help to change the attitudes of Americans towards eating insects? Devise a plan to introduce eating insects into the North American diet.