Feed the Bees
Unit 1: Creating a Pollinator Garden
We all have a favorite food and so do bees and other important pollinators in the
garden! This unit will introduce some flowers and trees that bees can't get enough
of and teach you how to create a pollinator garden in your backyard!
Unit 2: Bee Life
Use this unit to learn about the life cycle of a honeybee. From nurses and workers
to drones and the queen bee herself, explore the different bee jobs in the hive and
how bees work together to build the colony.
Unit 3: A Stroll Through the Bee Yard
Take a closer look inside the hive and learn how beekeepers work together with honeybees
to pollinate plants on the farm and provide us (humans) with honey and beeswax.
Unit 4: The Honey Jar
This unit will introduce some fun and healthy uses for honey in the kitchen. Make
cooked and uncooked treats sweetened with honey! Also, learn how this natural sweetener
is made by honeybees and the process it goes through to make it into our kitchen.
Unit 5: The Bees Knees: The Important and Fascinating Lives of Bees
In this unit you will learn why bees are such a fascinating, important creatures! Not only do they help pollinate the plants we eat, but they amaze
us with their complex communication systems, including the waggle dance and hot defensive
bee balls!