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Bee Smart Pollinators® Loan Box

The Bee Smart Pollinators® loan box includes materials that connect to plants, food and gardens, and resources to create habitats that support pollinators. 

Suggested Grades 3 – 8
Weight  26 lbs.
Dimensions 26" L x 16" W x 14" H

Standards Explored

NGSS
K-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity
K-LS1-1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
1-LS1-2 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
2-LS2-2 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
3-LS1-1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
3-LS2-1 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
4-LS1-1 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
4-LS1-2 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
5-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity
MS-LS1-4 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
MS-LS2-4 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Contents

Activity Binder

1. Pollinator anatomy sheets
2. Pollinator pursuer scavenger hunt
3. How does pollination work?
4. Pollinator food log
5. 3D "Honey Bee Lifecycle" booklet

Honey bees society
Build your own mason bee house

Loose

Bee Smart Pollinators activity binder

Poster, Native Bees

Poster, They Don’t Eat Their Pollinators

Box 1

Lifecycle model, honeybee

Lifecycle model, lady beetle

Lifecycle model, monarch butterfly

Specimen, bees (9 containers)

Specimen, honeycomb

Specimen, hornet nest

Specimen, wasp nest

Box 2

Bug viewer (2)

Magnifier (5)

UV flashlight

Box 3

Additional resources folder

Bee vision folder

Bug bingo folder

Design a Honeybee Colony Folder

Find the Honeybee Folder

Pollinators Pathway Poster

Box 4

A New Butterfly, Hickman and Collins

A Pocket Naturalist Guide: Beetles

A Pocket Naturalist Guide: Butterflies and Moths

A Pocket Naturalist Guide: Great Lakes Trees and Wildflowers

A Pocket Naturalist Guide: Illinois Butterflies and Moths

Bee Me, Elle J. McGuinness

Bugs, Kees Moerbeek

Butterflies and Moths

Eyewitness Explorers: Insects

Fandex: Bugs

Fandex: Butterflies of the World

Fandex: Wildflowers

From Caterpillar to Butterfly, Deborah Heligman

Monarch Butterfly, Gail Gibbons

One Hundred Hungry Ants, Elinor J. Pinczes

The Magic School Bus: Inside a Beehive

Waiting For Wings, Lois Ehlert