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.
Ja'Dell Davis is a Los Angeles native who currently divides her time between New York City and Madison, Wisconsin. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, pursing a PhD in Sociology. Ja’Dell previously taught high school in Philadelphia public schools, and implemented college access and academic enrichment programming in Chester, Pennsylvania and New York City in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Ja’Dell received her B.A. from Swarthmore College with a special major in History and Educational Studies, and a minor in Black Studies. She completed her M.S.Ed in Secondary School Education at the University of Pennsylvania.  In addition to her studies and work in the education field, Ja’Dell is a dancer, musician, avid people watcher, and Scrabble enthusiast.
This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Reading: Informational Text
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.2 Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.3 Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.7 Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

2. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes?
© Yang Wang
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. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes?
When life gives you ice, make ice sculptures. At least that’s the attitude of the people of Harbin, China, a city that endures long, cold winters by embracing the season with an International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Each night of the festival, the ice city is lit up to display a dazzling array of chill-defeating cheer.
Though the festival officially takes place for a month, beginning on Jan 5, many smaller sculptures begin to pop up in December, and much of the mini-city that’s built within Harbin remains in place through March, when spring weather finally arrives and the ice begins to melt.
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. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes? 1
Map Search
Find the location of Harbin, China on a map. 2
Image Search
Find an image of a sculpture that replicates a building. Do you recognize the building this sculpture replicates? Did the artist do a good job with this sculpture? 3
Find an image of a sculpture that has the image of a human being. Who does this sculpture represent? Did the artist do a good job with this sculpture? 4
Find an image of a sculpture that has the image of an animal. Which animal is it? Did the artist do a good job with this sculpture? 5
Find an image of a sculpture that impresses members of your group the most.
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. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes? 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. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes? 1
Map Search
Find the location of Harbin, China on a map. 2
Image Search
Find an image of a sculpture that replicates a building. Do you recognize the building this sculpture replicates? Did the artist do a good job with this sculpture? 3
Find an image of a sculpture that has the image of a human being. Who does this sculpture represent? Did the artist do a good job with this sculpture? 4
Find an image of a sculpture that has the image of an animal. Which animal is it? Did the artist do a good job with this sculpture? 5
Find an image of a sculpture that impresses members of your group the most.
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. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes? 1
Map Search
Find the location of Harbin, China on a map.
Using the “maps” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “harbin, china”, find the location here:

8. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes? 2
Image Search
Find an image of a sculpture that replicates a building. Do you recognize the building this sculpture replicates? Did the artist do a good job with this sculpture?
Using the “images” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “snow sculpture festival harbin china,” a number of images are available for students to peruse.
An example of a building replica is here:
Students should discuss their evaluation of the sculpture.

9. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes? 3
Image Search
Find an image of a sculpture that has the image of a human being. Who does this sculpture represent? Did the artist do a good job with this sculpture?
Using the “images” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “snow sculpture festival harbin china,” a number of images are available for students to peruse.
An example of a human image is here:
Students should discuss their evaluation of the sculpture.

10. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes? 4
Image Search
Find an image of a sculpture that has the image of an animal. Which animal is it? Did the artist do a good job with this sculpture?
Using the “images” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “snow sculpture festival harbin china”, a number of images are available for students to peruse.
An example of an animal image is here:
Students should discuss their evaluation of the sculpture.

11. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes? 5
Image Search
Find an image of a sculpture that impresses members of your group the most.
Using the “images” link on the Bing search page, and the search term “snow sculpture festival harbin china”, a number of images are available for students to peruse.
Students should search and choose an image that the group has agreed is most impressive.

12. Do the sculptures represent a variety of themes and structures, or do all sculptures follow similar patters and themes?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.