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Placing Artificial Domiciles to Attract Bumble Bees

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate how to entice bumble bees to accept artificial domiciles. They conduct research about bee biology and nest architecture, plan and construct an artificial domicile to attract bumble bee queens, and monitor and record...
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The Flight of the Bumble Bee

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners explore bumble bees. For this bee themed lesson, students listen to music inspired by bumble bees, create bee puppets, and complete a bumble bee coloring sheet.
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Bee and Wasp Identification

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study the differences between honey bee, bumble bee, paper wasp, and yellow jackets. In this insect classification instructional activity, students study posters of various bees and wasps. Students read the story Holly Honey Bee...
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Biodiversity—Bee Week

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
If you want scholars to fall in love with bees, this is the unit for you! Celebrate bees with a full week of material—designed for the Next Generation Science Standards—that addresses the importance of pollination and fertilization....
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The Honey Bee Body - Paper Honey Bee

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars construct a paper honey bee to learn the six major parts of a bee and other insects. They compare their own body parts to those of bees. They utilize worksheets imbedded in this plan to help them design their bee.
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Spring Collecting and Identifying Bumble Bees

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils collect bumble bees in the field, record data, identify and release specimens, answer conclusion questions, and send data in to researcher leaders. They make research based conclusions based upon the evidence.
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Spring Collecting and Identifying Bumble Bees

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students collect bumble bees in the field, record data, pin and label specimens, answer conclusion questions, and send specimens to research leaders for verification. They improve their ability to work in research teams. Students...
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Birds, Bees and Butterflies

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Young scholars complete a variety of activities surrounding science, music and art.  For this nature and animals lesson, students sing songs, color a picture of make a butterfly, listen and dance to music, make a butterfly, recite...
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Ordering Pictures - Smallest to Biggest

For Teachers Pre-K
In this ordering activity, students cut out 5 clip art pictures of bumble bees that vary in size. They paste the pictures from smallest to biggest on another sheet of paper.
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The Buzz on Bees-How Bees Make Our World a Little Sweeter

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
These lessons can help students learn about the important role bees play in the ecosystem.
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P.E. Bees

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice positive social skills and manners in this short lesson that is used to start each session of P.E. class. They identify a positive behavior, such as be on time, written on a bee cutout pasted among others on the...
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Scissor Activities

For Students Pre-K - K
In this fine motor skills worksheet, students complete three cutting with scissors activities. For example, students cut out stripes for a bumble bee and cut the end of a kittens scarf.
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Pollination

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate pollination. In this plant biology lesson plan, students study a diagram of the reproductive parts of the flower and dissect and identify the parts of a real flower.
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Here is A Beehive

For Teachers K
Students begin each school day with a song, starting the day on a happy note. They choose the songs, which change each month with each new unit. The words and music are given here for the busy bee song.
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Adopt-An-Insect III

For Students 7th - 9th
In this biology worksheet, students search through the links provided on insects to identify the order to which each insect belongs. Then they write the characteristics that distinguish insects from other arthropods. Students also select...
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Relationships

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use letters in the word RELATIONSHIPS to create other short words. At the culmination of the activity, all letters be used to make one word.
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R-e-l-a-t-i-o-n-s-h-i-p-s

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders combine letters to make several short words. They create word families and discuss letter patterns and make one word from all the letters at the end of the lesson.
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Big Bellies and Dandy Duffs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice tracing and identifying lower-case b and d letters as well as pictures containing examples of those letters. They mimic the sounds that the letters make and offer examples of those sounds rhyming when applicable.
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Alphabet People

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create alphabet people out of pipe cleaners, hole punchers, white paper, crayons, and tape. In this alphabet people lesson plan, students then complete activities with the letter of their alphabet person.
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Wump World

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read ead the book The Wump World written and illustrated by Bill Peet. Discuss with the students how air pollution can make your eyes water and cause shortness of breath. Students discuss air pollution and give the...
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Adopt-An-Insect Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a school-wide insect collection investigate the insect world. For this project, each grade level "adopts" specific orders of insects, collect specimens, create classroom collections, and complete related activities.

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