Bee Smart Pollinators Loan Box
The Bee Smart pollinators loan box includes materials to connect to plants, food, and gardens and resources to create habitats to 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