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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Explore the World of Honeybees

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about bees through this educational resource. This resource features math and science activities, experiments, fun facts, and more.
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Read Works

Read Works: Hard Times for Honeybees

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text that asks the reader to make predictions about problems created by the decreasing bee population. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Honeybees: Using a Quiz to Access Prior Knowledge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Dadant's Honeybee Study Prints, students learn about honeybee anatomy, reproduction, and behavior.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Human and the Honeybee

For Students 9th - 10th
Both honeybees and humans originated in East Africa, and the connection between us has survived the ages. Dino Martins encourages us to remember how much we owe to these magnificent insects. [6:25]
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Read Works

Read Works: The Buzz About Honey

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
[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.
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Website
National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society: Audubon Adventures: The Buzz About Native Bees

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Hidden Beauty of Pollination

For Students 9th - 10th
Pollination is a vital to life on Earth but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film "Wings of Life," inspired by...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Insects

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses characteristics of insects.
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eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Animals: The Busiest Bugs I Know

For Students K - 1st
Read about all the work that bees do and why they are so important to humans. Includes audio narration in 15 additional languages with text in English.
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Life

Encyclopedia of Life: European Honey Bee

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive reference tool investigates the European honey bee with a description, pictures, and maps. Includes facts on ecology, habitat, behavior, conservation, and external links.
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Website
Other

Pesticide Action Network: Environmental Impacts

For Students 9th - 10th
An environmental action agency provides information on events that demonstrate how pesticides may wreak havoc on the environment and threaten the food web for years. Examples of effects on honeybees, bats, and frogs are provided.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Honey to the Bee

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honeybees. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Security Buzz

For Students 6th
[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.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Buzz About Honey

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about honey and how it is made. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Every City Needs Healthy Honey Bees

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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National Audubon Society

National Audubon Society: Audubon Adventures: The Pollination Story

For Students 3rd - 8th
A colorful, interactive chart illustrating the stages in the pollination of flowers by bees.
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Johns Hopkins University

The Buzz About Bees: A Web Quest on Honey Bees

For Students 3rd - 8th
This WebQuest helps students learn about the importance of honey bees. After gathering information, students will work in groups to create a 2 minute commercial on the importance of the honey bee.
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Handout
A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Honey Bee (Apis)

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry identifies the defining characteristics of Apis, more commonly known as the Honey Bee.
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Handout
University of Kentucky

Uk: Starting an Observation Hive of Honey Bees

For Students 9th - 10th
This interesting site explains how one goes about creating a honey bee hive for observation purposes.
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Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Bee Houses

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what bees and bee hives can bring to a backyard habitat.
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Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: Bees Use Drugs? Evidence of Self Medication

For Students 9th - 10th
There has been documented evidence that honey bees increase their foraging of antibiotic plant resins when under stress from fungal pathogens. Could more access to certain plants provide some solutions for decreasing bee populations?
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Article
Akron Children's Hospital

Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Hey! A Bee Stung Me!

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Wonderville Media

Wonderville: Honey Bees

For Students K - 1st
Honey bees are a very important part of nature. We all know that honey comes from bees, but what else do you know about honey bees? Learn more about Honey Bees in this well-constructed overview by Wonderville.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Honey Bees

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
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,...

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