All About Bees Unit Study
Spring is here and the bees have been invading us all around! It has given us the perfect opportunity to learn about them. Since we collected resources, and learned about them ourselves, I thought I would share our All About Bees Unit Study for others to enjoy.
Like with most of our unit studies these days, this one began as whim of our little one and thus turned into a unit study. We usually head off to library to gather books which we read over a period of a week or two.
Then we began putting all that information we learned together using this FREE All About Bees Lapbook from Homeschoolshare. We created a video to show you the lapbook and tell you some of the things we learned about bees.
All About Bees Lapbook Video:
This book, The Bumble Bee Queen by April Pulley Sayre is a fantastic book with lots of information about bees in story form. We had taken the physical book out of the library and then I found this one in video form that was such much fun to watch.
The Bumble Bee Queen Animated Science Story:
Finding Out About Bees for Kids:
Related All About Bees Facts:
- Backyard Bee Keepers includes types, facts, a glossary of terms and more.
- Learn About the Honey Bee from Science With Me – includes simple facts, labeled diagrams, life cycle and more.
- Hives for Lives – Honey Bee Facts
- Inside and Out of the Beehive
All About Bees Printable Resources:
- Honey Bees Project Pack and Lapbook
- Do All Bees Make Honey? – This daily science unit from Evan-Moor for grade 4 presents information and five activities in which students learn about the various jobs that bees have in the hive (including some that make honey), about how bees need flowers, and about how flowers need bees for pollination.
- Honey Bees Notebooking Pages – This set contains 44 notebooking pages embellished with images of bees, apiaries, bee keepers, honey, honey comb and more.
- Bees ~ Colors, Shapes & Numbers – for preschoolers
- Bee Activities from Enchanted Learning – things like labeling, bee word wheel, poems and more.
May 19, 2014 @ 11:59:42
My granddaughter, Ava did a fantastic job of relating what she had learned about bees. I love the idea of the lap book It is a great visual craft tool incorporating the basic facts of what you have learned.
May 19, 2014 @ 12:01:37
When I suggested we do a video I wasn’t sure how she would react. She like to “present” to me all the time and is always talking and explaining what she has learned. I thought it might be fun to video her doing this. While she was a little stiff and formal (and didn’t look at the camera much) I thought she did a great job.
May 20, 2014 @ 09:36:00
Wow, thanks for this! We had a really bad bought of wasps last year and all of my children were stung several times…by the end of the summer we were pretty much stuck inside because they were so bad! Now, all 3 of my boys are neurotic about bees even though I’ve explained over and over the difference between bees and wasps…maybe this will help them respect bees a bit more 😉
May 20, 2014 @ 10:16:30
Jennie, I think that situation would have had my husband running for the hills! Anything that buzzes is his enemy! It has rubbed off some on my son as well. This was a fun unit and whether good or bad I don’t know, but we have plenty of specimins to observe! LOL!