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  • 1.  Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-18-2022 11:28:00 AM

    Hello Everyone – We are planning a family-friendly educational event about bees at the end of April. I am looking for kid-friendly bee materials to distribute (anatomy, importance to ecosystem, gardening for bees, making honey, etc.). If anyone has materials to share or has suggestions of resources, please send them along. Thanks so much!

     

    Diane Ingram, Supervisor

    Manatee County Agricultural Museum, Inc.

    For Angelina "Angel" Colonneso

    Manatee County Clerk of Circuit Court & Comptroller

    1015 6th St. West, Palmetto, FL  34221

    www.manateecountyagmuseum.com

    diane.ingram@manateeclerk.com

    (941) 721-2034    FAX: (941) 721-6888

     

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  • 2.  RE: Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-19-2022 11:20:00 AM
    Hi Diane, Cabot Cheese has some materials that I utilised last Spring. Here's the link: https://www.cabotcheese.coop/pollinator-patch/ 

    Happy gardening, Laura

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  • 3.  RE: Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-19-2022 11:28:00 AM
    Hi, Diane!

    You have a wonderful local resource in Sarasota, the Sarasota Honey Company.
    A few years ago (2018 or 2019, I think) I contacted them to be a special guest presenter for our pollinator week at a summer camp I directed. The owner, Alma, is a former special Ed teacher and a delight!  She arranged for her assistant to come to our site with a demonstration hive, honeys to sample, lots of interesting information, and she even made beeswax candles with the kids :)

    Their website is sarasotahoney.com, and their phone # is ​941-726-8755.


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    Tracy Calla
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  • 4.  RE: Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-19-2022 01:52:00 PM
    Hi Diane,
    I've found some really great info from the Bee Cause. Resources - The Bee Cause
    My kids love to play pollinator relays as well. I use puppets like Bees, hummingbirds, bats...Kids pretend to be the pollinator & take pollen(small fuzzy pom poms) on a spoon from fabric flowers to the other flowers to fill a small Dixie cup. More advanced you can limit # of flowers or pollen so kids can discuss reasons why there may not be enough flowers  herbicides, development, native plants. Etc. 
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    Pamela Cooley
    Prairie Winds Elementary
    Hawk Gathering Garden- Volunteer Garden
    Coordinator
    zoo_fro@hotmail.com
    Monument CO USA
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  • 5.  RE: Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-19-2022 01:54:00 PM
    Hi Diane,
    I've found some really great info from the Bee Cause. Resources - The Bee Cause
    My kids love to play pollinator relays as well. I use puppets like Bees, hummingbirds, bats...Kids pretend to be the pollinator & take pollen(small fuzzy pom poms) on a spoon from fabric flowers to the other flowers to fill a small Dixie cup. More advanced you can limit # of flowers or pollen so kids can discuss reasons why there may not be enough flowers  herbicides, development, native plants. Etc. 
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    Pamela Cooley
    Prairie Winds Elementary
    Hawk Gathering Garden- Volunteer Garden
    Coordinator
    zoo_fro@hotmail.com
    Monument CO USA
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  • 6.  RE: Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-20-2022 12:54:00 PM
    You can make bee houses out of toilet paper rolls, stuff them with small sticks and you can recycle straws for them.

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    Erin Snyder
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  • 7.  RE: Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-20-2022 12:57:00 PM
    also https://beecityusa.org/ and xerces society https://www.xerces.org/

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    Erin Snyder
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  • 8.  RE: Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-21-2022 11:49:00 AM
    I love these hands on plastic models to show life cycle!


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    rianna alvarado
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  • 9.  RE: Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-22-2022 02:46:00 PM
    Here in Western Washington, we have two orgs that facilitate bee programs (native/pollinator varieties, not honey) and have some great online resources: Crown Bees: Mason Bees (crownbees.com) and Rent Mason Bees: Learning Center - Rent Mason Bees

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    SHEA SCRIBNER
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  • 10.  RE: Seeking Kid-friendly Bee Information

    Posted 02-22-2022 06:49:00 PM

    Hi, Here are some resources to forage through,


    GEMS, "Buzzing a Hive" - http://store.lawrencehallofscience.org/Item/gems-buzzing-a-hive


    Music: Banana Slug String Band's Pollinator Nation album - https://bananaslugs.bandcamp.com/album/pollinator-nation


    These are the lessons, and many more resources that are from the Honey Bee Education program that Whole Kids Foundation Partners with. https://www.thebeecause.org/resources/?_sft_category=lesson-plans

    There are at least 4 different lesson resources (150+ pages), plus videos and the such.


    Here is Planet Bee's teachers resources https://www.planetbee.org/teacher-resources

    which includes a literature list, user submitted Bee Lesson Library, and a citizen science activity.


    Dadant and Son's has a great collection of resources - these are for kids

    https://www.dadant.com/catalog/books-subscriptions/books/childs


    Pollinator.org has extensive resources to browse https://www.pollinator.org/learning-center/education

    https://www.pollinator.org/bee-smart


    Lastly there is the Great Sunflower Project another Citizen Science Project which I ran with Neli's class. I developed a pollinator tally sheet and you can find that on the Life Lab Blog Page https://www.lifelab.org/2017/08/garden-stations/

    Bee well,
    -- JOHN
    John Fisher - Director of Programs & Partnerships - 831.471.7831 - lifelab.org/john
    Life Lab cultivates children's love of learning, healthy food, and nature through garden-based education.
    A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with locations in Santa Cruz and Watsonville, CA





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