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.
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.W 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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences.

2. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?
© Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis
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. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?
The National September 11 Memorial plaza in Manhattan opened to the public on September 12, 2011; the museum opened on May 21 this year. Inside the museum, visitors descend to the bedrock foundation that once supported the World Trade Center towers to see artifacts of the events of 9/11 and remembrances of the victims.
A visit here is just one way to remember and honor all who were lost, and those who responded to the call for help. Recently the 9/11 Day of Service movement has become a way for anyone, anywhere, to participate in memorials by performing good deeds, no matter how small or large.
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. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?1
Web Search
What is community service? 2
Video Search
Locate a compelling video that encourages young people to get involved in community service. 3
What are some community service opportunities in your area? 4
Thinking
What is the impact to the community that you could have by participating in community service? 5
Choose a community service opportunity that you could become involved with and describe what is compelling to you about the opportunity.
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. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?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. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?1
Web Search
What is community service? 2
Video Search
Locate a compelling video that encourages young people to get involved in community service. 3
What are some community service opportunities in your area? 4
Thinking
What is the impact to the community that you could have by participating in community service? 5
Choose a community service opportunity that you could become involved with and describe what is compelling to you about the opportunity.
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. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?1
Web Search
What is community service?
(Possible Search Queries: “What is Community Service”)
Sources
Wikipedia:
Community service is unpaid work for the public or a public institution. It differs from volunteerism in that community service isn’t always voluntary. It could be court mandated, government mandated or a part of high school or college coursework.

8. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?2
Video Search
Locate a compelling video that encourages young people to get involved in community service.
(Possible Search Queries: “Community Service,” “Get involved in Community Service”)
Sources
Bing Video Search:
Students should find a video (most are only a couple of minutes) that has young people as their target audience. For example there are several videos made by college students to promote community service opportunities at their college.

9. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?3
Web Search
What are some community service opportunities in your area?
(Possible Search Queries: “Local Community Service Opportunities,” “Community Service Opportunities_________ (insert name of local town)” )
Sources
Volunteer Match
(local government site example:
Students will note the variety of volunteer and community service opportunities and organization in their area. Examples include: education/tutoring, after school programs, big brother/big sister, homeless/poverty related institutions, faith based service opportunities as well.

10. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?4
Thinking
What is the impact to the community that you could have by participating in community service?
Students should consider one or two community service opportunities that they are interested in and discuss the specific types of work that is done. Then students should assess the overall impact over time. For example, if they chose to volunteer in an after school reading program they should consider how many students they would work with on a weekly basis

11. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?5
Thinking
Choose a community service opportunity that you could become involved with and describe what is compelling to you about the opportunity.
Students should select a specific area and organization to be involved with. They should describe what exactly they would be doing within the organization and why that particular organization and/or work is compelling. Students should describe exactly why that were moved to choose this particular community service project as opposed to all the others.

12. What are community service opportunities you can become involved in?
This slide is a chance to summarize the information from the previous slides to build your final answer to the question.