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.
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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.
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.4.5 Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.7 Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

2. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?
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Having this up as kids come in is a great settle down activity. You can start class by asking them for thoughts about the picture or about ideas on how they could solve the question of the day.

3. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?
Hamburg’s U-Bahn rapid transit system is known as an underground rail, although a majority of the U-Bahn’s tracks actually run above ground. This stop on the U4 line is on an island in the Elbe River, in an up-and-coming district of Hamburg called HafenCity. Construction projects are converting HafenCity’s old warehouses and shipping port areas into livable spaces. So if you want to catch the U-Bahn to HafenCity, look for the stop called Überseequartier, then tell all your friends you caught a train to an island.
Depending on time, you can either have students read this silently to themselves, have one of them read out loud, or read it out loud yourself.

4. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?1
Web Search
What country can Hamburg be found in? What continent is this country in? 2
Map Search
Find your current location on a map in relationship to Hamburg. What direction will you need to travel in to get there? 3
Map/Web Search
Could you walk to Hamburg from your current location? Why or why not? If you used an alternate form of transport, how long would it take? How much would it cost? 4
If you flew into Hamburg, how could you get from the airport to the U4 line? 5
Find a map of the U4 line in Hamburg. What is the first stop? Where could you travel to on this line?
There are a couple of ways to use this slide, depending on how much technology you have in your classroom. You can have students find answers on their own, divide them into teams to have them do all the questions competitively, or have each team find the answer to a different question and then come back together. If you’re doing teams, it is often wise to assign them roles (one person typing, one person who is in charge of sharing back the answer, etc.)

5. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?5
Minutes
You can adjust this based on how much time you want to give kids. If a group isn’t able to answer in 5 minutes, you can give them the opportunity to update at the end of class or extend time.

6. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?1
Web Search
What country can Hamburg be found in? What continent is this country in? 2
Map Search
Find your current location on a map in relationship to Hamburg. What direction will you need to travel in to get there? 3
Map/Web Search
Could you walk to Hamburg from your current location? Why or why not? If you used an alternate form of transport, how long would it take? How much would it cost? 4
If you flew into Hamburg, how could you get from the airport to the U4 line? 5
Find a map of the U4 line in Hamburg. What is the first stop? Where could you travel to on this line?
You can ask the students verbally or let one of them come up and insert the answer or show how they got it. This way, you also have a record that you can keep as a class and share with parents, others.

7. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?1
Web Search
What country can Hamburg be found in? What continent is this country in?
(Possible queries: “where is Hamburg?”, “location of Hamburg”).
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Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest city in the European Union.
Students should notice that Germany is in the European Union, and make the connection that this means it is located on the continent of Europe.

8. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?2
Map Search
Find your current location on a map in relationship to Hamburg. What direction will you need to travel in to get there?
(Possible query: “Bing/Maps: Hamburg, Germany”).
From
Students should locate Hamburg on a map and then zoom out until they can see it in relationship to where they are. They should then use map reading skills and a compass rose to determine they would be traveling in a northeast direction to reach Hamburg from most places in the United States.

9. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?3
Map/Web Search
Could you walk to Hamburg from your current location? Why or why not? If you used an alternate form of transport, how long would it take? How much would it cost?
(Possible queries: “Bing/Maps: Hamburg, Germany”, “how to fly from the United States to Hamburg”).
Students should first look on a map to see where Hamburg is in relationship to where they are. They should determine that they are separated from Hamburg by the Atlantic Ocean, which would make it impossible to walk or drive there. Instead, students should think about the possibility of flying to Hamburg and search to find approximately how long flying there would take and how much it would cost. Possible queries should include searches with their current locations (for example, possible queries: “flying to Hamburg from Philadelphia”, “how to fly from Philadelphia to Hamburg, Germany”).
For example, from:
Answers will vary. In this example, flying from Philadelphia to Hamburg next month would cost $948 and take approximately 10 hours.

10. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?
Web Search
If you flew into Hamburg, how could you get from the airport to the U4 line?
(Possible queries: “Hamburg airport to U-Bahn”, “how to get to U4 from Hamburg airport”).
From
Hamburg Airport is connected to the city by the S-Bahn S1 commuter train line, which connects to the Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) and the city centre in about 30 minutes. There are trains every minutes, and a single fare is €3.
Students should first discover that they can get from the Hamburg airport to Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) on the S-bahn (see above). They then need to do an additional search to figure out where they can connect to the U-Bahn from there. (Possible queries: “Hamburg Hauptbahnhof u-bahn”, “Hamburg U-Bahn stops”). They should see (From that the U4 U-Bahn does stop at Hauptbanhof Nord. In other words, this means they could take the S-bahn from the airport to Hauptbahnof Central Station, and connect to the U-Bahn from there.

11. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?5
Map Search
Find a map of the U4 line in Hamburg. What is the first stop? Where could you travel to on this line?
(Possible queries: “map of the Hamburg U4 line”, “Hamburg, map of U-Bahn U4”).
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Students should examine the map of the U-Bahn lines in order to figure out which line represents the U4 (in this example, it’s the turquoise line) and find where it stops. They should see that they could either travel from Billstedt to Haupbahnof Nord to Uberseequartier to HafenCity Universitat, or travel in the opposite direction. (In other words, depending on what direction you’re going, either Billstedt or HafnenCity Universitat would be the first stop).

12. How would you travel from your current location to the start of the U4 line in Hamburg?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question. This question is an opportunity for students to practice using online resources and map reading skills for directions and travel information. They should understand that in order to get to Hamburg, Germany from the United States, they’d need to travel over the Atlantic Ocean in a northeast direction. They could take a (approximately 10 hour) flight and arrive at the Hamburg airport. Then, they could take the S-bahn from the airport to the Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) and transfer to the U-Bahn to get on the U-4 from there.