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3rd-5th grades

Teacher Resources

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Website title and link: The Buzz About Native Bees
​Topic: Native Bees, pollinators
Grade level: 3-5
Standards included: Yes
Activities include: reading, hands on at school, hands on  outside/at prairie
Reviewers liked:

• Pollinating activity: students create pretend flowers with pollen and without, and then act like bees and visit the flowers
• Students make artificial nests and place them in a natural area to see if bees will use them.
• This is a STEM activity
• A bee “magazine” for the students — attractive, engaging, and informative.
• Online interactive graphic that demos pollination 
• Online quiz
• An assessment and the assessment key included for the teacher

• Students observe and evaluate a local natural area in terms of its suitability as habitat for native bees.

Website title and link: Prairie Roadshow
​Topic: Prairie Plant Roots
​Grade level: 4-5
Standards included: Yes
Activities include: reading, hands on at school
Reviewers liked:

• STEM (they use math to aid in drawing plants and roots proportionately)
• Assessment questions provided to help teacher
• Extensions suggested (such as including the animals and fungi found underground).
• Additional resources listed
• Education Standards (Iowa based) given
• Background information and definitions of vocabulary given as well as access to the other information on the Tallgrass Prairie Center website/activities.
• Large photos of prairie plant roots