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Track #236161: Honey Bees and Bees
Annotated by: Vincent Pilato
1. Billy Bee
http://www.billybee.com

Once you find the information parts of this site, its a good site for basic info about honey bees, the history of honey, bee anatomy etc.

2. Public Broadcasting System on Bees
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees

Any thing PBS puts on their website is excellent. Anatomy of a hive, descriptions of the kinds of bees in a hive, pics, sound, and movies. Excellent.

3. Bee Trivia
http://biology.dbs.umt.edu/bees/Trivia.HTM

Over 30 trivia questions about bees.

4. U.S.Dept. of Agriculture
http://www.ams.usda.gov/fv/rphoney.html

General info from the United States Department of Agriculture about honey. Vocabulary is advanced for primary grades.

5. 2nd grade trip to the honey bee farm
http://www.manning.k12.ia.us/Elementary/grade2/bees/index.html

6. The Bee Source
http://www.beesource.com/eob/index.htm

A great amount of info and pictures of beekeeping, equipment, and books.

7. Pictures of Bees and Honey
http://www.kohala.net/bees/JPEGS/web.html

Great reasorce of pictures that can be downloaded and added to the class book.

8. The Hungry Giant
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/giant/gianttg.htm

Students will use letters and phonetically spelled words to write a sentence about a honey bee fact they learned from Dr. Universe. The teacher or a buddy will then edit the sentence for the student. Learning expectation - use elements of the writing process as appropriate

9. Honey Bees
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/bees/honey/index.html

Student can use this web site to label the parts of a honeybee on a page that has been furnished by the teacher. Learning expectation - demonstrates knowledge of concepts of print, including print directionality.

10. Pictures of bees
http://www.pollinator.com/identify/whatsbuzzin.htm

Go to this site and view the pictures of the bees.

11. Honey Bee Webquest for 2nd Grade
http://www.dedham.k12.ma.us/webquest/spring2002/ll/insectweb-c.htm

12. Honey bee information
http://www.cyberbee.net/kids/simple.html

Primary site of honey bee information, good example of a graphic organizer or web that can be duplicated using kidspiration.

13. Honey bee information
http://gpnc.org/honeybee.htm

Honey bee information

14. Enter a hive thu PBS
http://pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/hive.html

Another direct link to the PBS site about bees, here you have a multi media experience entering a honey bee hive.

15. Bees
http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/bees/honey/

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