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This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box tosolve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure thatyou read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so youcan 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 withanother class in today’s location. And if you are using Windows 8, you can also use the Bing apps to learn moreabout this location and topic; the Travel and News apps in particular make great teaching tools.

This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard:

Main Critical Thinking Question

Maine’s blueberry barrens possess a mystique that prompts anyone who’svisited during harvest to share stories of the landscape and the harvest.

The wild, “lowbush” berries that grow in the barrens along Maine’s northerncoast are smaller than commercially farmed blueberries, but are prized fortheir potent flavor. Some are still harvested with small metal rakes that pickersuse to pull the fruit from the low bushes. But combine-style harvestingequipment can outpace the seasonal pickers.

If you want to taste the fresh, wild blueberries, you’ll want to book a trip toMaine. Few are exported beyond the region, as they don’t preserve well unlessthey’re frozen. What are you doing next August?

Main Critical Thinking Question