Bee A Friend To Pollinators

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This lesson plan and assessment takes you on a journey to discover if pollinators find your campus a hospitable home. Core compliant for Grades 3-5, but adaptable to all ages. Are you working with distance learners or in a non-traditional teaching environment? This lesson plan is perfect for you! All you need is a pencil and outdoor space, including sidewalks, local parks, greenways, libraries, and beyond!

Material Type: Assessment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Where Would We BEE Without Pollinators?

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An educator's guide to pollination and pollinator conservation written by Mary Hannah Lindsay and Chanda L. Cooper with Richland Soil and Water Conservation District in South Carolina.

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

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Bee Cause Project Digital Field Trip: Honey Harvest Video Link

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The Bee Cause Project's Digital Field Trip Series takes the audience along on an adventure into the lives of pollinators! The Honey Harvest Field Trip follows beekeepers Gabby and Wayne Staats as they harvest honey from their own honey bee hives.

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Authors: Tami Enright, The Bee Cause Project

Honey Harvest Virtual Field Trip Educators Guide

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This Educators Guide provides everything you need to make this virtual field trip a huge success with your students! You will find lists of materials and resources, step-by-step instructions for three complete lessons, journal prompts as well as research topics, supplementary card work, and standards mapping.

Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Tami Enright, The Bee Cause Project

Bee A Friend To Pollinators Video Link

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Wrap your mind around the world, but without strawberries, watermelons, or chocolate. Humans rely on pollinators such as native bees, honey bees, butterflies, birds, and even flies for these and other important foods around the world. In our neighborhoods, pollinators are in trouble. This video link will support educators as they teach the Bee A Friend To Pollinators lesson plans, helping children become advocates for pollinator-friendly schools and community spaces.

Material Type: Lesson, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Clemson Cooperative Extension, Tami Enright, The Bee Cause Project

Webinar: How to Connect with Local & National Pollinator Partners

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Looking for community resources to support your Bee Program? Join guest speaker Clemson Extension School & Community Gardening Coordinator, Amy Dabbs, for ideas on how to tap into local and national partners poised to support your pollinator education program. The topics discussed will specifically pertain to those who are interested in, or currently participate in an educational Bee and/or Pollinator program. The presentation offered in partnership between The Bee Cause Project and the Whole Kids Foundation.

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Author: The Bee Cause Project

The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco

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Do you ever get bored when reading? Mary Ellen does! Grampa knows just what she needs, a trip to the bee tree. With half the town following the chase, Mary Ellen and Grampa go off on an adventurethat leads Mary Ellen to make a sweet discovery of her own.Lexile Level: AD680LGuided Reading Level: MGenre: Fiction

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Author: The Bee Cause Project

What if There Were No Bees? by Suzanne Buckingham Slade

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What if there were no bees? How would it affect our grassland animals? How would it affect humans? This book offers insight into the problems that countless animals and plants face with the potential loss of the bees. Discover just how important this tiny species is to the food web of this ecosystem.Grade Level: 3rd-5thLexile Level: 890LGuided Reading Level: NGenre: Nonfiction

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Author: The Bee Cause Project

The Great Sunflower Project

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The Great Sunflower Project is a great way to use Citizen Scientist's observations of bees nationwide to create an online map of the bee population with special attention given to sunflower pollinators. Your students can join the thousands of volunteers to gather pollinator information as part of this data collection. With the bee population in decline, students can actively assist in getting to the bottom of the causes of this environmental issue. There is an introductory video provided in English and Spanish by PBS, a Quick Start Guide, maps, opportunities to observe individual data, and loads of other resources to get your students outdoors and counting pollinators!

Material Type: Interactive

Author: The Bee Cause Project

Honey Bees: A Pollination Simulation Lesson by Agriculture in the Classroom

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This lesson from the National Agriculture in the Classroom Matrix is designed to teach students about the parts of honey bees, the stages of the lifecycle, and the role honey bees play in pollination. There are three activities including materials lists, vocabulary words, background connections, support documents, step-by-step procedures, and support videos.

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Author: The Bee Cause Project

Mind Your Own Beeswax Lesson by Agriculture in the Classroom

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Looking for a project for middle school-age students? This project-based learning experience will allow students to solve the problem of excess beeswax, a byproduct of honey bees, by developing a useful beeswax product and marketing their product to be sold in a local boutique or farmers market. This is a great way to drum up business and interest with students and the community in preparation for starting your own Bee Club! This lesson has step-by-step instructions and how-to documents to help the educator facilitate the process.