- Author:
- The Bee Cause Project
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Education, Elementary Education, Life Science, Biology
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading, Simulation, Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Level:
- Lower Primary, Upper Primary
- Tags:
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- Beehive
- Beekeeping
- Bees
- Environment
- Flower Seeking Pollinators
- Honey
- Honey Bees
- Lifecycle
- Parts of a Bee
- Pollen
- Pollination
- Pollinator
- Save the Bees
- Save the Pollinators
- Thebeecause.org
- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives
- Language:
- English
- Media Formats:
- Downloadable docs
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Learning Domain: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Standard: Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.
Learning Domain: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
Standard: Use evidence to support the explanation that observable traits can be influenced by the environment.
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.
Learning Domain: Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
Standard: Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
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.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
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 Informational Text
Standard: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
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.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
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.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
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.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
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.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
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.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
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 Informational Text
Standard: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
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.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Learning Domain: Reading for Informational Text
Standard: Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
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.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
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.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
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.
Learning Domain: Writing
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Standard: Develop a simple model that mimics the function of an animal in dispersing seeds or pollinating plants.*
Science Domain: Life Sciences
Topic: Inheritance and Variation of Traits: Life Cycles and Traits
Standard: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment. [Clarification Statement: Examples of the environment affecting a trait could include normally tall plants grown with insufficient water are stunted; and, a pet dog that is given too much food and little exercise may become overweight.]
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.]
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.]
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details.
Standard: Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
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: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
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.
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 the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
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.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
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 two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
Cluster: Craft and Structure.
Standard: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Cluster: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas.
Standard: Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
Cluster: Text Types and Purposes.
Standard: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
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.
Cluster: Research to Build and Present Knowledge.
Standard: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate
Overview
Want to know a secret? Flowers actually ‘talk’ to animals! This beautifully written and illustrated informational text is a delightful way to introduce the symbiotic relationship between plants and pollinators. Full of interesting facts and told from the perspective of a “prickly” cactus, this book will enlighten and entertain your audience.
Grade Level: 2nd-5th Lexile Level: 570L Guided Reading Level: Q Genre: Informational Text
Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate