Martin Luther King, Jr

Halloween

Frogs

The Water Cycle

This is the front cover 

Here’s the inside

This is what I used to make the lapbook.

Vocabulary: brood, forage, beeswax, hive, drone, defense, nectar, ventilate, enzymes, pheromones, secrete, social

Honey bee label me printout

Bee wordsearch

Beehive shape book

Bee life cycle wheel

You will need to make 2 circles about 3 inches in diameter out of construction paper.  Now you’ll need to punch out a hole in the center of each.  Make sure the holes line up.  On one circle cut out a “window”, about ¼ of the circle and then write “ The Honeybee’s Life Cycle” on it. They can decorate it if they wish with flowers and bees. This will be the top of the wheel.  On the other circle divide it into 4 equal parts and have the student draw the four life stages of the honeybee.  Place the other wheel on top and fasten together with a brass fastener.

Bee Facts is an accordian fold book with the answers to these questions.

1. What are the 3 types of bees in any colony?

 
2. What does each bee do?

 
3. How long do the different types of bees live?

 
4. Tell us something interesting you learned that you didn’t know before.

 
5. How do bees benefit humans?

 
6. How do bees benefit the environment?

 
7. How do bees communicate with each other?

 
8. Name the 4 stages of a bee’s life cycle.

 
9. What can we learn from bees?

Websites we visited

Read these interesting facts on honeybees

http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/ic/trivia.html

 
Read anatomy of a hive

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/hive.html

 
 
Fascinating facts about bees

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/buzz.html

 
 
Dances with bees, watch bees dance

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/dances.html

 
 
Interactive online view of the anatomy of a bee

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/bee.html

 
 
Information on the honeybee and different types of bees

http://www.gpnc.org/honeybee.htm

 
Biology of the Honeybee (best for upper grades)

http://koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/Plants_Human/bees/bees.html

Some stories we read

The Bees, The Drones, and The Wasps

http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/178.htm

 
Bees in the Hive

http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=buckley&book=fairyland&story=bees

 
A Swarm Leaves a Bee Tree

http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=pierson&book=forest&story=swarm

Berenstain bear paper dolls

Family Fun paper doll

Several paper dolls

Bear paper dolls

Billy bear paper dolls

Graphic Organizers