CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

In this photograph from Oxford Scientific Films, a horned bee attempts to mate with an Ophrys orchid, which has evolved to resemble a female bee.

If you have a problem or question about bees and wasps, this site can help provide some information. There are 13 different articles that can tell you about the insects and what you can do about them.

This Old Farmer's Almanac resource gives insight on the life and characteristics of bees.

Resources for learning about the important role bees play in pollinating plants, especially those we eat. Includes a student magazine full of information about bees, an interactive pollination chart, and a quiz.

Comprehensive reference tool investigates the European honey bee with a description, pictures, and maps. Includes facts on ecology, habitat, behavior, conservation, and external links.

This is an introduction Interactive Spelling Bee; it explains how the game works by grade level: Grades 1-8 listen to three stories separately and spell words from each story; high school students will listen to sentences and spell words...

Comprehensive guide for learning important facts about bees such as their habitat, diet, and impact. Content includes details on bumble bees, carpenter bees, honey bees, and killer bees.

Read this multimedia article about the disappearance of bee colonies worldwide. Find out why it is crucial to saving this important pollinator from extinction.

Apparently bees are geometry masterminds. Who knew? Find out why bees make hives out of a collection of hexagons.

This entry identifies the defining characteristics of Apis, more commonly known as the Honey Bee.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how bees can be helpful and how they can be dangerous. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Detailed information and fascinating facts about the honey bee include diet, habitat, physical features, behavior, and conservation status.

Bees fly from flower to flower, sipping nectar and collecting grains of pollen. Bees have a special tongue that sucks up the nectar and a crop in their throat for storing it until they get back to the hive, where it is turned into honey...

In this video segment from WILD TV, learn about bees and the different techniques for handling them.

The disappearance of bees will have tremendous impact upon the way we live according to scientists in this segment from Nature.

This site gives an in-depth description of a bee, including its behavior, appearance, reproduction, and classification. The site includes photos and illustrations and an interactive quiz to test your understanding.

As part of the museum's larger exhibit on spiders and insect, this site examines various types of bumble bees along with their scientific name, common name, and body structure (coloring).

Penn State University and the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Consortium offer an excellent site on everything you need to know about bee behavior.

This interactive site allows students to listen to 20 words that contestants of the National Spelling Bee spelled to win. They can read about the origin of the word, listen to the word pronounced and read in a sentence, and then try to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the decreasing number of bees and the negative effects that can have on our food supply. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Bee, or honeybee, is the word many people use to describe any flying insect that has wings and a stinger. Take a look at this article to learn more about bees.

Take a look at the facts and images of honey bees.

Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban environments- and cities need their help, too. Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban...