PBS
Idaho Ptv: Science Trek: Bees
A comprehensive overview of bees. Includes three videos: a half-hour show, a video short, and a short video where an expert answers children's questions. Other features of the site include facts, links, games and activities, a reading...
Other
Canada Agriculture Museum: Bees: A Honey of an Idea
Learn about bees, from different types, pollination to the processes utilized to extract, package, and use honey and its by-products. Includes quick facts, recipes, craft ideas, and printable activities for students.
Other
Old Farmer's Almanac: The Buzz on Bees
This Old Farmer's Almanac resource gives insight on the life and characteristics of bees.
National Audubon Society
National Audubon Society: Audubon Adventures: The Pollination Story
A colorful, interactive chart illustrating the stages in the pollination of flowers by bees.
NC State University
Beekeeping Insect Note: Cucumber Pollination
How many bees do you need to pollinate cucumbers? How do you maintain the hives? Answers to these questions and more.
Scientific American
Scientific American: The Buzz on Bees: In Depth Reports
Read this multimedia article about the disappearance of bee colonies worldwide. Find out why it is crucial to saving this important pollinator from extinction.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Ask Dr. Universe: Why Do Bees Make Hexagons?
Apparently bees are geometry masterminds. Who knew? Find out why bees make hives out of a collection of hexagons.
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Bees
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.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Bare Earth for Native Pollinators
Find out why keeping a part of your yard as bare ground is important for providing nesting habitat for native bees.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Explore the World of Honeybees
Discover more about bees through this educational resource. This resource features math and science activities, experiments, fun facts, and more.
Read Works
Read Works: Busy Bees
[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.
Read Works
Read Works: Security Buzz
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honeybees that have been trained to find explosives and alert authorities. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Buzz About Honey
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the role of honeybees in producing honey. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Hexagonal Pattern of Beehives
Beehives are made of walls, each of the same size, enclosing small hexagonal cells where honey and pollen are stored and bees are raised. This problem examines some of the mathematical advantages of the hexagonal tiling in a beehive....
Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum: Bumble Bees
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).
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Honey Bees
The students will do research to learn the various functions of bees within the hive and understand the process of making honey. Students will use numerous resources to find their information including the Internet, library books,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Flight of the Bumblebee
This unit will allow students to explore the world of plants and bees. Students will have the opportunity to observe plant growth, preform a plant life cycle play, and work on a multimedia presentation during this unit. The students will...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Invertebrates
Features interesting facts and colorful photos of a variety of invertebrates with a map of the location where they can be found.
abcteach
Abcteach: Insects
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the insect world using activities and lesson plans that emphasize cross-curricular learning.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Tales From the Hive
Examine how bees use a variety of dances to communicate the location, quality and quantity of a food source to their hivemates.
PBS
Pbs: Anatomy of a Hive
This is an excellent PBS site that talks about the make up of the beehive and it's inhabitants. Topics such as communication, food, temperature, defense are also visited.
Earth Life
Wonderful World of Insects: An Introduction to the 32 Orders of Insects
A very thorough look at the world of insects. This site examines the 32 orders of insects and gives a complete explanation of the characteristics of each order. Text is supplemented with pictures.
A-Z Animals
A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Honey Bee (Apis)
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of Apis, more commonly known as the Honey Bee.
Other
San Francisco Zoo: Honey Bees
Detailed information and fascinating facts about the honey bee include diet, habitat, physical features, behavior, and conservation status.