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Reading Adventure Pack: Bees

For Parents 3rd Standards
A Reading Adventure pack explores the busy life of bees. After reading a fiction and nonfiction text, scholars complete three hands-on activities. Participants invent a robot that can do the work of bees, cheers to hardworking bees with...
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The New York Times

Trouble in the Hive: Researching the Decimation of Honeybee Colonies

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Teach your class about colony collapse disorder and foster discussion about causes and solutions for the honeybee problem. Class members read and discuss an article and participate in one of two detailed activities about pollination and...
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Curated OER

Fantastic Flower

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is a clever lesson on pollination of flowers for you. In it, learners study the anatomy of a flower, and play a game in which they simulate the process of pollination. This fine plan brings in elements of art, physical education,...
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Curated OER

Flower Dissection

For Students 4th - 5th
For this science worksheet, students follow directions for dissecting a flower. Students tape the parts of the flower in the corresponding boxes. Students also read about how flowers reproduce and analyze a related diagram.
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Rural Science Education Program

Bees and Flowers – Partners in Pollination

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Why are bees so important? After several activities where kids investigate the form and function of flowers, they learn about the different types of bees and label them. They then examine pollen under a microscope and decide which bees...
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Rainforest Alliance

Stop and Smell the Flowers

For Teachers Pre-K - K
It's a bird! It's a bee! Actually, it's your learners flying from flower to flower smelling their scents! Using paper flowers and essential oils, pupils flutter between flowers to use their sense of smell to experience how animals use...
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Curated OER

Bee Pollen Popular

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
The world would be a much different place without the help of pollinators. Read about the important role bats, hummingbirds, and various insects play in plant reproduction, exploring the interdependence of living things in an ecosystem....
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Curated OER

Going Buggy: Lesson 3: Bees

For Teachers K
Students review the characteristics of insects they have already been introduced to. As a class, they are introduced to the characteristics of bees and what it can do instead of sting. To end the lesson, they discuss how plants and...
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Curated OER

Bats, Bees, Birds, and Blossoms

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Youngsters use a paper bee to pollinate two paper flowers. They use hole-punch dots as pollen. Older learners dissect flowers and name the structures involved in pollination. The handouts mentioned in the lesson plan are not included, so...
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Curated OER

Bees Challenge

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this bees worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions regarding bees and their behavior in order to exhibit what they know about them.
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Curated OER

Bees Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this bees vocabulary activity, students read ten clues to words pertaining to bees. Students choose the correct word that fits each clue and print it on the line. There is a word bank provided.
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Curated OER

Bees Crossword Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this bees instructional activity, students explore facts about bees. Students complete a crossword puzzle by finding the answers to the seven clues provided.
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National Park Service

Biodiversity—Bee Week

For Teachers 6th - 8th
If you want scholars to fall in love with bees, this is the unit for you! Celebrate bees with a full week of material—designed for the Next Generation Science Standards—that addresses the importance of pollination and fertilization....
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The Science Spot

Flower Basics

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn about plants and pollination with a worksheet about the parts of a flower. After labeling the anatomy of a flower using a word bank, kids explain the difference between self-pollination and cross-pollination, and unscramble...
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Curated OER

Bees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design an experiment. In this bees lesson, students research pollination and work collaboratively to discover how bees aid in pollination.  Students use tomato plants and create experimental designs. Lesson adaptations...
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Curated OER

Busy Bees

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore the pollination cycle. In this pollination lesson, students investigate the process of pollination. Students illustrate the pollination cycle of bees on paper plates.
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Curated OER

Those Busy, Buzz'n Worker Bees

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students research information on worker bees. In this insect lesson plan, students review the body parts of insects and how bees find flowers. They discuss compound and simple eyes and the life cycle of a worker bee.
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Curated OER

Flower Power

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore parts of the flower. In this plant biology lesson, students dissect flowers and identify how the seeds are formed. Students take a nature walk to pick flowers for future dissections.
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Curated OER

Buzzy, Buzzy Bee

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students simulate honeybees pollinating flowers. In this pollination lesson, students role-play the process of pollination over the course of several seasons. Students graph results and share their graphs with the class.
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Oklahoma Ag in The Classroom

Bee Smart Bee Happy

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here is a wonderfully designed lesson on bees and pollination designed for early elementary learners. After a class discussion on bees, pupils pretend to be a bee by picking up nectar off of "flowers" in the class. The flowers are...
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Curated OER

Flower Powder

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students collect and observe pollen. In this plant reproduction biology activity, students use pollen boards to collect pollen from flowers, then match it with the correct paper flowers. Students move artificial bees from flower to...
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Desert Discoveries

What's the Buzz on Native Bees?

For Teachers 3rd
Young biologists describe the different types of bees that are native to the Sonoran Desert. They look at the nesting and feeding requirements of the insects, and study how they are able to pollinate many plants found in the environment....
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Curated OER

Honeybee

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars investigate honeybees and the importance of honeybees to humans. They identify the various parts of a bee's body using velcro parts, role-play a hive, and answer review questions.
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Curated OER

Too Bee Or Not To Bee

For Teachers K
Students recognize that bees are important in the reproduction of plants and to the survival of animals.  In this bee lesson, students become familiar with the parts of bees and how those adaptations help them pollinate plants....

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