Description
- Overview:
- What if there were no bees? How would it affect our grassland animals? How would it affect humans? This book offers insight into the problems that countless animals and plants face with the potential loss of the bees. Discover just how important this tiny species is to the food web of this ecosystem.Grade Level: 3rd-5thLexile Level: 890LGuided Reading Level: NGenre: Nonfiction
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Education, Elementary Education, Life Science, Biology
- Level:
- Upper Primary
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Author:
- The Bee Cause Project
- Date Added:
- 12/21/2020
- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Downloadable docs
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Learning Domain: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Standard: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
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Learning Domain: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
Standard: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
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Learning Domain: Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity
Standard: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
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Learning Domain: Earth and Human Activity
Standard: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from renewable and non-renewable resources and how their uses affect the environment.
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Learning Domain: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures & Processes
Standard: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
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Learning Domain: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures & Processes
Standard: Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
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Learning Domain: Energy
Standard: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
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Learning Domain: Earth and Human Activity
Standard: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to conserve Earth's resources and environment.
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Learning Domain: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Standard: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
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Learning Domain: Energy
Standard: Use models to describe that energy in animals' food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Standard: Represent the concept of division of whole numbers (resulting in whole number quotients) using models including, but not limited to, partitioning, repeated subtraction, sharing, and inverse of multiplication.
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Learning Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Standard: Solve multiplication and division word problems within 100 using appropriate modeling strategies and equations.
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Learning Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Standard: Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, by using strategies including, but not limited to, drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources, demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or to solve a problem efficiently.
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Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; summarize or paraphrase information in notes and finished work, and provide a list of sources.
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Learning Domain: Writing
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Learning Domain: Number and Operations - Fractions
Standard: Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b. (Grade 3 expectations in this domain are limited to fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8.)
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Learning Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Standard: Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 Ö 8 as the number of objects in each share when 56 objects are partitioned equally into 8 shares, or as a number of shares when 56 objects are partitioned into equal shares of 8 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a number of shares or a number of groups can be expressed as 56 Ö 8.
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Learning Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Standard: Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
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Learning Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Standard: Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Environmental Impacts on Organisms
Standard: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Environmental Impacts on Organisms
Standard: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. [Clarification Statement: Examples of evidence could include needs and characteristics of the organisms and habitats involved. The organisms and their habitat make up a system in which the parts depend on each other.]
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Environmental Impacts on Organisms
Standard: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change. [Clarification Statement: Examples of environmental changes could include changes in land characteristics, water distribution, temperature, food, and other organisms.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to a single environmental change. Assessment does not include the greenhouse effect or climate change.]
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Science Domain: Earth and Space Sciences
Topic: Energy
Standard: Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. [Clarification Statement: Examples of renewable energy resources could include wind energy, water behind dams, and sunlight; non-renewable energy resources are fossil fuels and fissile materials. Examples of environmental effects could include loss of habitat due to dams, loss of habitat due to surface mining, and air pollution from burning of fossil fuels.]
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Structure, Function, and Information Processing
Standard: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. [Clarification Statement: Examples of structures could include thorns, stems, roots, colored petals, heart, stomach, lung, brain, and skin.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to macroscopic structures within plant and animal systems.]
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Structure, Function, and Information Processing
Standard: Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on systems of information transfer.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include the mechanisms by which the brain stores and recalls information or the mechanisms of how sensory receptors function.]
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Science Domain: Physical Sciences
Topic: Energy
Standard: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents. [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include quantitative measurements of energy.]
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Science Domain: Earth and Space Sciences
Topic: Earth's Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth
Standard: Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth’s resources and environment.
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Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
Standard: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. [Clarifcation Statement: Emphasis is on the idea that matter that is not food (air, water, decomposed materials in soil) is changed by plants into matter that is food. Examples of systems could include organisms, ecosystems, and the Earth.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include molecular explanations.]
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Science Domain: Physical Sciences
Topic: Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems
Standard: Use models to describe that that energy in animals’ food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun. [Clarification Statement: Examples of models could include diagrams, and flow charts.]
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Cluster: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division
Standard: Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 ÷ 8 as the number of objects in each share when 56 objects are partitioned equally into 8 shares, or as a number of shares when 56 objects are partitioned into equal shares of 8 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a number of shares or a number of groups can be expressed as 56 ÷ 8.
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Cluster: Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division
Standard: Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
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Cluster: Develop understanding of fractions as numbers
Standard: Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b. (Grade 3 expectations in this domain are limited to fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8.)
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Cluster: Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems
Standard: Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.
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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.
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Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
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Cluster: Craft and Structure.
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Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
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Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
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Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
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Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
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Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
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Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
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Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
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Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
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Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
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Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
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Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
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Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
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Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
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Tags (16)
- 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
- Iowa K-12 E-Curriculum
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