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
[email protected]. You can learn more about the program at bing.com/classroom and follow
the daily lessons on our Partners 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.
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.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and
cause/effect.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.5 Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band
independently and proficiently.
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
© Filip Molcan / 500px
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
In the northwestern edge of the Czech Republic is the Bohemian Switzerland
National Park. It’s a rugged, densely forested wilderness in the Elbe Sandstone
Mountains, reaching across the border into Germany’s Saxon Switzerland
National Park.
The jagged landscape of the Bohemian Switzerland National Park causes a rare
climactic inversion: The coldest spots are in the canyons, creating the kind of
stark environments usually found at higher altitudes; meanwhile, the forests
higher up the slopes hold warmer air enabling diverse plant and wildlife species
to flourish.
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
1
2
Web Search
Web Search
What is an animal that likes a hot climate? How does it survive this hot
climate and why does it prefer this temperature?
What is an animal that likes a cold climate? How does it survive this cold
climate and why does it prefer this temperature?
Image
Search
In the image’s description, we learn that there are stark environments in
the canyons, and diverse plant and wildlife species higher up the slopes.
What do you think a “stark environment” means? What might warm air
“enabling diverse plant and wildlife species” mean?
4
Map Search
Find a map that shows you different kinds of animal habitats around the
world. Can you guess what kinds of temperatures give way to what
habitats?
5
Web Search
What kind of plants do best in cold environments and why? What kind of
plants do best in hot environments and why?
3
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
5
Minutes
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
1
Web Search
What is an animal that likes a hot climate? How does it survive this hot
climate and why does it prefer this temperature?
2
Web Search
What is an animal that likes a cold climate? How does it survive this cold
climate and why does it prefer this temperature?
Image
Search
In the image’s description, we learn that there are stark environments in
the canyons, and diverse plant and wildlife species higher up the slopes.
What do you think a “stark environment” means? What might warm air
“enabling diverse plant and wildlife species” mean?
4
Map Search
Find a map that shows you different kinds of animal habitats around the
world. Can you guess what kinds of temperatures give way to what
habitats?
5
Web Search
What kind of plants do best in cold environments and why? What kind of
plants do best in hot environments and why?
3
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
1
Web Search
What is an animal that likes a hot climate? How does it survive this hot
climate and why does it prefer this temperature?
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
2
Web Search
What is an animal that likes a cold climate? How does it survive this cold
climate and why does it prefer this temperature?
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
3
Image
Search
In the image’s description, we learn that there are stark environments in
the canyons, and diverse plant and wildlife species higher up the slopes.
What do you think a “stark environment” means? What might warm air
“enabling diverse plant and wildlife species” mean?
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
4
Map Search
Find a map that shows you different kinds of animal habitats around the
world. Can you guess what kinds of temperatures give way to what
habitats?
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?
5
Web Search
What kind of plants do best in cold environments and why? What kind of
plants do best in hot environments and why?
How does temperature affect what plants and animals inhabit
a space?