- Author:
- The Bee Cause Project
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Education, Elementary Education, Life Science, Biology
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Level:
- Upper Primary
- Tags:
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- Bee Club
- Beehive
- Beekeeping
- Bees
- Environment
- Flower Seeking Pollinators
- Honey
- Honey Bees
- Lifecycle
- Parts of a Bee
- Pollen
- Pollination
- Pollinator
- Save the Bees
- Thebeecause.org
- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
- Language:
- English
- Media Formats:
- Downloadable docs
Education Standards
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
Learning Domain: Reading for Literature
Standard: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel; multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
Learning Domain: Reading Literature
Standard: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel; multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel; multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
Honeybees and Frenemies by Kristi Wientge
Overview
Flor has been looking forward to summer with her best friend since last summer! But an unexpected twist of fate lands her working in her family’s mattress store and her best friend at band camp. Her
life gets even worse when she has to compete in the local honey pageant (again) and volunteer to help a recluse beekeeper with her worst frenemy. With her parents fighting and the possibility of moving to New Jersey on the horizon, this summer cannot get any worse.
Grade Level: 3rd-7th
Lexile Level: 870L
Guided Reading Level: S
Genre: fiction, chapter book