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Title:
| Animals: Bees |
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Description:
| Learn more about bees including how they are classified, their characteristics, and their role in pollination. Find out if killer bees are deadly and how you should treat a bee sting. Watch videos including some showing bees communicating by dancing. |
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Grade Level:
| 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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Resource Links:
| Honey.com: Pollination
This site includes information on bees, honey, and pollination. NOTE: The site leads to websites with ads.
Insecta Inspecta World
This is a diagram of a bee with text explaining the benefits and products of bees. Topics include honey, royal jelly, beeswax, etc. NOTE: The site leads to websites with ads. NOTE: The site has pop-up ads.
NOVA: Tales from The Hive
This site has a good overview about bees and their anatomy. Includes a Quicktime video of the bees' dances. Also learn about the different roles the bees have. NOTE: This site has ads.
The Beekeeper's HomePage
This is a commercial site for honey, but it has good information for learning about honey. Use the "Information Center" link to learn about honey and the "Kids Corner" link to find games and quizzes.
Encyclopbeedia
Find out about classification, body parts, life cycle, and other bee and honey information at this site.
Insecta Inspecta World: Killer Bees
Find out how dangerous killer bees really are. Watch a video that shows these bees in motion. NOTE: The site leads to websites with ads. NOTE: The site has pop-up ads.
Honey Bees' Diversity Helps Keep Them Cool
Read about how colonies are genetically diverse. This diversity leads to different fanning times to keep the hive cool.
ThinkQuest: Bees: An Inside Look
Biology, history, environment, benefits, and bee farming are all covered.
ThinkQuest: Welcome to Our Bee Page
Read all about bees and pollination.
Bees
Read this brief article about bees that explains how bees see.
Saving Pollinators
The world may be losing some pollinators. Read the Hindu folk tale about bees.
Honey Bee Observation
This site gives information on how to set up your own bee hive observation in an indoor setting.
Bee Lesson Plan
This lesson plan about bees is aimed at older students, but the questions and experiments could be modified to suit younger students as well.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.10, 4.7, 3, 4, 5, 6, 3, 4, 8
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