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Published by The Bee Girl Organization
Author: Sarah Red-Laird
Subject: Science
Season: Year Round
Place of Learning: A classroom, in a school garden, a farm, a large yard, etc.
Grade Level: Grades 2-5

Concept: Bees are a keystone species, supporting and connected to our daily lives.

Objectives:
After this lesson, students will be able to:
 Recognize the importance of pollinators in the outdoors.
 Recognize foods that are pollinated by bees.
 Continue to advocate for honey bee habitat.

Assessments
During this lesson, students will:
 Explain the organization of honey bees and identify the types of bees and their role in the hive.
 Understand the difference between pollen and nectar.
 Describe the structure of a hive and how bees communicate.
 Discuss the benefits of bee pollination.
 Learn what is essential to bee survival.
 Learn how to plan a bee habitat.
 Identify two species of bees.
 Name two ways they can help honeybees.

Materials: See Appendix 1.

Standards:
3-LS1-1.
Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth,
growth, reproduction, and death

3-LS2-1.
Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.

3-LS4-3.
Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive
less well, and some cannot survive at all.

3-LS4-4.
Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of
plants and animals that live there may change. 44