Learning Kits
Planting for Bees! (Early Years – Year 2)
Learning Kit
Calling all educators! Guide your students to discover the invaluable relationship between honey bees and plants. Developed by our very own qualified teachers, ‘Planting for Bees!’ Early Years – Year 2, provides educators with a complete unit of work including 11x 1 hour lesson plans and complementary resources.
Students will learn about the needs of living things, pollination, and the life cycle of a honey bee. ‘Planting for Bees!’ is aligned with the Australian and Victorian Curriculum.
*Unfortunately, due to biosecurity restrictions shipments to Western Australia will not contain seeds or honey and shipments to Tasmania will not include seeds.
Learning Kit Includes:
- Complete unit of work – 11 x 1 hour lesson plans
- Worksheets and assessment templates
- Supporting videos and sound clips
- 30x Bee Friendly Seed packets
- 30x Mini Honey Tasting Kits
- ‘Natures Tiny Miracle’ by Britta Teckentrup
- ‘Bee Play’ props including; cleaning gloves, bee figurine, drawstring bag with wax, shield, headbands and buckets, prop pollen, and a crown.
‘Planting for Bees!’ provides students with opportunities to:
- Explore the anatomy of a honey bee and their lifecycle.
- Enjoy a honey tasting experience to explore how the nectar source creates the unique taste profile of different honeys.
- Learn about the cross section of a flower to develop an understanding of how bees pollinate and how pollination works.
- Understand the importance of the symbiotic relationship between bees, plants and humans.
- Learn about the importance of honey bees for our food security.
- Discover what ‘bee friendly’ flowers are and how we can encourage bees into our environments.
Wheen Bee Foundation
Wheen Bee Foundation is Australia’s premier not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the importance of bees in food security, biodiversity and ecosystem health, with education for people of all ages at the heart of everything the Foundation does.
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