BEE part of the Ecosystem
(View Complete Item Description)5th grade students work together in teams to create an ecosystem to support Pacific Northwest pollinators.
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All resources in The Bee Cause Project
Disappearance of the Bees - What's the Impact?
(View Complete Item Description)The disappearance of bees will have tremendous impact upon the way we live according to scientists in this segment from Nature.
Material Type: Lecture
Good Taste: Honey Bee Forager Preference
(View Complete Item Description)In this 5 lesson set, students learn about the foraging behavior of bees and hypothesize if the bee’s behavior is related to its ability to detect sugar. Students will then determine which type of foraging bee would be best for pollination or honey production. Students will learn about the process of gel electrophoresis as a genetic tool and analyze DNA to identify strains of bees who are better pollen-collecting bees or better nectar-collecting bees.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Case Study
Climte Kids: A Bee Is More Than a Bug
(View Complete Item Description)In addition to instructions for making a model bee out of polymer clay, this site also contains related information about bees: a fact list, factors that threaten them, suggestions on how to help them, a waggle dance diagram and video, and even bee metaphors used in our language. The Climate Kids website is a NASA education resource featuring articles, videos, images and games focused on the science of climate change.
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Unit Honey Bee- Module 1-3
(View Complete Item Description)Students will examine ways declining bee population can impact day to day life, by considering how the cost of honey and pollination has been affected society Students will create real-world problems that relate to statistics on the declining bee population.
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Pollination
(View Complete Item Description)Students are asked to explain the relationship between a bee and a flower. ***Access to Teacher's Domain content now requires free login to PBS Learning Media.
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Why Beehive Honeycombs Have a Hexagonal Shape
(View Complete Item Description)Beavers are generally known as the engineers of the animal world. In fact the beaver is MIT's mascot! But honeybees might be better engineers than beavers! And in this lesson involving geometry in interesting ways, you'll see why! Honeybees, over time, have optimized the design of their beehives. Mathematicians can do no better. In this lesson, students will learn how to find the areas of shapes (triangles, squares, hexagons) in terms of the radius of a circle drawn inside of these shapes. They will also learn to compare those shapes to see which one is the most efficient for beehives. This lesson also discusses the three-dimensional shape of the honeycomb and shows how bees have optimized that in multiple dimensions. During classroom breaks, students will do active learning around the mathematics involved in this engineering expertise of honeybees. Students should be conversant in geometry, and a little calculus and differential equations would help, but not mandatory.
Material Type: Lecture
Garden Science: Garden Orientation - The Card Hike
(View Complete Item Description)In this 6th grade science lesson, students are introduced to the garden as a classroom. They meet the garden staff, tour the garden, learn the basic systems and routines of the garden classroom and are introduced to the Edible Schoolyard life skills and values.
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Understanding Organic: Connections to Action in the Garden Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)***This curriculum is provided by The Edible Schoolyard Project with full permission to share*** Understanding Organic: Connections to Action in the Garden Classroom is a garden and classroom-based curriculum for middle to high school students that explores the concepts and meanings of organic agriculture. The curriculum consists of a short preparatory unit, a sequence of ten core lessons, and twelve optional extension inquiries that can also be taught as standalone lessons. The ten core lessons utilize hands-on explorations of organic practices and feature textual analysis and open discussions to examine the complex meanings of organic. The final project workbook introduces students to a social action project in which students apply their knowledge and experiences to enact justice-oriented change related to organic. We recommend that you start by reading the curriculum overview linked below before reading individual lessons.
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The Library Grant Details
(View Complete Item Description)Your neighborhood Whole Foods Market Southern Region believes that Libraries Need Bees Too! Through this grant, we hope to help you make small changes to improve pollinator habitats and promote even bigger changes in your community while supporting pollinator literacy. We’ve provided the tools that you need to create your own Bee A Friend to Pollinators Community Event this year. Read on to learn more!
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Libraries Need Bees Too! Reference Guide
(View Complete Item Description)This Reference Guide will provide the information you need for planting your pollinator garden box, maintenance on your mason bee house, suggestions for your Bee A Freind To Pollinators family event, and links for all of our lesson plans!
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DIY Pollinator Garden Box Instructions
(View Complete Item Description)Congratulations! You are about to improve pollinator habitats in your own space! Did you know that pollinators are responsible for one in three bites of food that you eat? Bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, beetles, and flies, to name a few, are responsible for so many delicious foods we enjoy. From chocolate and coffee to apples and watermelons, we need these vital creatures to pollinate 80% of all flowering species and 35% of the world’s crops! And you can do your part to help the pollinators with a few simple steps. View Resource to learn more!
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4-H Honey Bee Project Orientation
(View Complete Item Description)South Carolina 4-H Youth Development is the youth component of Clemson University Cooperative Extension, fulfilling the land-grant mission by taking research-based knowledge and educational resources to the state's youth, ages 5-18 years. One component of an SC 4-H Pollinator Program, the Honey Bee Project is an independent-study project that engages youth in the active role of beekeeping, learning the basics of entomology, and gaining an appreciation for pollinators in our world. - South Carolina 4-H Pollinator Program Honey Bee Project Record Book, 2021
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SC 4-H Honey Bee Project: Book Club Challenge Guide Cloverbuds
(View Complete Item Description)This Book Club Challenge Guide will help Cloverbuds explore the book The Life and Times of the Honeybee by Charles Micucci with pre-reading and post-reading discussion questions, lots of hands-on activities including a Lifecycle of a Honey Bee figures activity, and much more!
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Create Your Own Herbarium
(View Complete Item Description)This Educator's Guide will provide the steps and materials you will need to create your own herbarium as part of the 4-H Honey Bee Project.
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The Reason for a Seed
(View Complete Item Description)This Educator's Guide provides a unique seed experiment utilizing the materials in the 4-H Honey Bee Project tool kit.
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