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4. Hive Alive! Sweet Virginia Foundation: Swarm Lesson

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Learn how honey bees manage their community through swarming. This lesson includes learning objectives, material and resource lists, background information, activities, reading selections, writing assignments, a game, assessments, and support documents. See the Educator's Guide for more video links and recommended readings. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

5. Hive Alive! Sweet Virginia Foundation: Honey Lesson

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Learn how honey is made and used. This lesson includes learning objectives, material and resource lists, background information, activities, reading selections, writing assignments, a game, assessments, and support documents. See the Educator's Guide for more video links and recommended readings. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Hive Alive: Sweet Virginia Foundation Virtual Tour

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This video is designed to highlight the resources and educational tools provided on the Sweet Virginia website. Each of the five lessons has a downloadable, printable document including high-resolution photographs, video suggestions, and original text.  Go to sweetvirginia.org for more information about their programs including the "Ask A Beekeeper" video links. 

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Sweet Virginia! Hive Alive Educator's Guide

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Why do bees swarm? Do bees really dance? What is a pollen basket? Educators will have theirhives buzzing with excitement about these interactive learning experiences from The Sweet VirginiaFoundation. These five lessons offer students an opportunity to explore the wonder of the honey beefrom any classroom! With games, activities, readings, and extensions, these lessons are an excellentresource for any educator who is passionate about pollinator education. Dive right into these amazinglessons and let the learning begin! This Educator's Guide provides video links and book suggestions to boost your lesson planning for face-to-face and distance learning! 

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Guide to the Digital Bee Hive for Educators

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Did you know that honey bees can dance? Do you know why bees build honeycombs in the shape of a hexagon? Do you know how many eyes honey bees have? Bees live a secret life inside their hive...but NOW we can see what goes on in a live hive. The Bee Cause and its partners are on a mission to inspire children to learn about and protect these precious pollinators. That's why we've created the Digital Bee Hive Experience - to educate our community of learners about this vital ecosystem. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Digital Bee Hive Virtual Field Trip Video

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Did you know that honey bees dance? Or that they build their homes out of perfectly formed honeycomb? The Digital Hive Experience was created to educate about the inside of a beehive and our friends, the honey bees. Pair the Digital Hive Video with the companion Educator’s Guide! Included are a lesson plan mapped to the Common Core and NGSS, pre and post-assessments, discussion questions, and a KWL Chart for your students! Perfect for a classroom introduction or for programs that may not have live bees, we hope you enjoy your journey into the hive!

Material Type: Interactive, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Bite-Size Nutrition: Honey Roasted Sweet Potato Video

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 Charleston County School District Nutrition Services and the Green Heart Project are excited to be partnering this year for Harvest of the Month with their friends from The Bee Cause Project providing delicious honey. Enjoy this fun and easy demonstration of Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Honey and Cinnamon! Simple and delicious foods from Mother Nature are always a winner with your students!

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Author: The Bee Cause Project

The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons

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Get the buzz about honey bees in this brilliant, nonfiction title by Gail Gibbons. From jobs within the hive to modern-day beekeeping and all of the millions of flowers in between, these are some busy bees! Without the honey makers, the world would be a much different place. Help young readers learn to love the bees!Lexile Level: 770LGuided Reading Level: OGenre: NonfictionPre-Reading

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jaqueline Briggs Martin

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Growing up in Maryland, Will Allen hated farming! After a career in professional basketball and working in a “white shirt job,” Will turned his attention to helping a Milwaukee community learn to grow their own food when he rediscovered a passion for working in the dirt. This book will inspire children and teachers to look at every pot or plot of dirt as a place to grow something.Grade Level: 3rd-5thLexile Level: AD630LGuided Reading Level: TGenre: Nonfiction

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Author: The Bee Cause Project

Bumble Bee Watch

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Bumble Bee Watch is a Citizen Science Project provided through the partnerships of The Xerces Society, the University of Ottawa, Wildlife Preservation Canada, BeeSpotter, The Natural History Museum, London, and the Montreal Insectarium. This is a fun and interactive way that your students can contribute to the collection of scientific information about the friendly pollinator, the bumble bee! Join the team of volunteers to help track and learn!

Material Type: Interactive, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Nature's Partners Curriculum and Educator's Guide

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As part of our continued commitment to education, the team at The Bee Cause Project has created this companion document, Educator’s Curriculum Guide, to supplement the Nature’s Partners curriculum.Our Tips from the Hive are designed to add layers of concept extensions, optional digital methods of delivering content, and support to educators that are either brand new or experienced environmental educators. The Buzz Worthy Resource Materials are video links, notable articles, and more printable resources, while the Bee Cause Book Club highlights recommended readings for students of all ages. Several titles have quality read-aloud links as well.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson Plan, Module, Simulation, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Farm to Table Virtual Field Trip and Educator's Guide

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Ever wonder how food gets from the farm to the table? The Bee Cause Project has partnered with SC Ag in the Classroom to create this unique roadmap from the farm to a local food hub and finally to the table of a local restaurant. The Educator’s Guide provides Resources, Recommended Reading List, Activities, Discussion Questions, and the full recipe for Basic Kitchen’s Collard Roll with Yuzu Dipping Sauce! The video, The Journey of Food: From the Farm to the Table can be found on The Bee Cause Project YouTube Channel. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Webinar: How to Build a Student Bee Club

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In this webinar, we discuss how to build and grow a Bee Club for your school or organization. Special guest, Beth McCarty, is an educator and Bee Grant recipient who grew her school's Bee Club from the science lab observation hive to a campus-wide effort run through their Bee Club to learn alongside the bees.McCarty's school, Ashley Hall, is located in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina, so her experience is not only in urban beekeeping, but also deals with developing bee clubs over several grade levels. She shows us how to get creative, adapt to different learning levels, and how taking kids into a hive isn't the most important item on the Bee Club to-do list!Find educator lesson plans, resources, and more information about the Bee Cause Project grant opportunities at www.thebeecause.org!This webinar was offered in partnership with our friends at the Whole Kids Foundation.

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Author: The Bee Cause Project

The Flight of the Honey Bee by Raymond Huber

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Scout is a little honey bee with a big mission! She needs to find the last flowers of fall to get the sweet nectar that she and her sisters will turn into honey. With winter on the way, honey will provide the food to keep the hive alive until spring. But she’s got some pretty big obstacles coming her way!Lexile Level: AD840LGuided Reading Level: OGenre: Nonfiction

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Honeybees and Frenemies by Kristi Wientge

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Flor has been looking forward to summer with her best friend since last summer! But an unexpected twist of fate lands her working in her family’s mattress store and her best friend at band camp. Herlife gets even worse when she has to compete in the local honey pageant (again) and volunteer to help a recluse beekeeper with her worst frenemy. With her parents fighting and the possibility of moving to New Jersey on the horizon, this summer cannot get any worse.Grade Level: 3rd-7thLexile Level: 870LGuided Reading Level: SGenre: fiction, chapter book 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Journey North: Monarch Butterflies Citizen Science

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Scientists rely on Citizen Scientists to track the migration of the monarch butterflies as they journey north from Mexico and back again. This amazing pollinator begins its fall migration from August to November and spring migration from March to June. Students can follow migration news, see the real-time mapping of the butterfly's movements, and report their own sightings with this amazing project from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Arboretum.

Material Type: Interactive

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Firefly Watch Community Science Project

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Anyone in North America can join this special community research project to help scientists map fireflies! Ten minutes once a week in your own backyard or field can help scientists understand the numbers and patterns of these unique pollinators. There is a training video and sign up information on the website for you and your students to explore! 

Material Type: Interactive

Author: The Bee Cause Project

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