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.2.5CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.5 Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.9CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.9 Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.

2. Why do we have a day to celebrate the importance of trees? © Ron Koeberer/Tandem Stills + Motion

3. Just one of the 24 parks in Sonoma County’s regional park system, Foothill Regional Park features stands of oak, madrone, and bay trees covering its gently rolling hills. The trees capture the imagination most any time of year, but they’re particularly easy to appreciate today, on Arbor Day. Multiuse trails wind 6.8 miles through the park, some of them open for horseback riding. But you’re just as likely to see cyclists rolling through the land that was once used by ranchers grazing their cattle. Visitors are rewarded with fine views from the tops of the hills, while three small lakes offer quiet spots to stop and relax. And after a day’s adventure in the park, remember you’re in wine country. Sonoma is home to some of California’s best vineyards, many of which offer food as well as drink. This is starting to sound like a really good weekend plan. Why do we have a day to celebrate the importance of trees?

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6. 1 Web Search How do trees help us breathe? 2 Web Search What kind of foods do people eat that come from trees? 3 Web Search How are trees connected to certain kinds of medicine? 4 Web Search How do trees help the soil around them? 5 Web Search How can trees help protect us from certain weather conditions? Why do we have a day to celebrate the importance of trees?

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11. 5 Web Search How can trees help protect us from certain weather conditions? Why do we have a day to celebrate the importance of trees?