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Do the buzz buzz dance as you listen to this song about bees!

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This one-pager has great information and ideas for ways that you can explore pollinators at home. You are most likely to see bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, ants, and beetles.
1. Find a spot with flowers and observe it for at least 15 minutes. 2. Count how many pollinators you see, and what kinds. Record your data on this handout!
3. Draw a close-up of one of the pollinators you observe.
4. Share your observations by clicking the "+" sign below this column and adding a photo of your observation area or your activity sheet.

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Explore the Million Pollinator Garden website. 

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Explore the Million Pollinator Garden website. 

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Look up your neighborhood. Are there any pollinator friendly gardens in it?
Do YOU have a pollinator-friendly garden? Add it to the site (with parental support and permission).

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1 out of 3 bites of food we take each day, and yet pollinators are at critical point in their own survival. Many reasons contribute to their recent decline. We know for certain, however, that more nectar and pollen sources provided by more flowering plants and trees will help improve their health and numbers. Increasing the number of pollinator-friendly gardens and landscapes will help revive the health of bees, butterflies, birds, bats and other pollinators across the country.

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Home - Million Pollinator Garden Challenge

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1 out of 3 bites of food we take each day, and yet pollinators are at critical point in their own survival. Many reasons contribute to their recent decline. We know for certain, however, that more nectar and pollen sources provided by more flowering plants and trees will help improve their health and numbers.

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This week, we are making Bee Hotels for your to hang up at home! 

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This week, we are making Bee Hotels for your to hang up at home! 

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This are not beehives so you won't get hoards of bees or honey from this. These are homes for solitary bees.

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What's the Waggle Dance? And Why Do Bees Do it?

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What's the Waggle Dance? And Why Do Bees Do it?

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Watch this amazing video then you be the bee! Hide a flower picture or drawing and do a “waggle dance” to communicate the direction and distance to someone in your home. We call this kind of behavior biocommunication.

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Watch this 3 minute video describing pollination and why it is so important for our food system. Listen for examples of some good ways you can support pollinators!

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Pollinators: Putting Food on the Table: Video | Nature Works Everywhere | PBS LearningMedia

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Pollinators are often overlooked, but in reality are overwhelmingly crucial animals in maintaining ecosystem health and productivity. By enabling plant reproduction, bees and other insects hold the key to keeping wild systems functioning. Learn how scientists and everyday people can help pollinators by changing farming practices and by planting pollinator gardens.

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Watch This Bee Build Her Bee-jeweled Nest | Deep Look

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Read by Suzanne

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Slide Ranch Shows us the power of BEES! 

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Slide Ranch Shows us the power of BEES! 

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Why do honeybees love hexagons? - Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson

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Rashida Jones reads, "Please Please the Bees"

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Rashida Jones reads, "Please Please the Bees"

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'Please Please the Bees' read by Rashida Jones

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This is a 4 minute video showing close up views of pollination and the honey bee comb in action!

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Honey Bees Make Honey ... and Bread? | Deep Look

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1. Read this article with an adult or click on the text-to-speech feature on the left hand side.
2. Watch the video in the article about powerful pollinators.
3. Focus in on the examples of bee hotels in the article, They might inspire your design!

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Beyond the Beehive Life Science Article for Students | Scholastic SuperScience Magazine

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Why people around the world are building hotels for wild bees

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-empty plastic bottle
-paper grocery bag
-ruler
-pencil
-scissors
-twine/yarn
-utility knife (for adult use only)

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1. Rinse out the bottle and peel off the label.
2. Get adult help to help cut off "nose" of the bottle so that it's more like an open cup.

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DIY Bird Feeders from natural materials 

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DIY Bird Feeders from natural materials 

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Nature Cat | DIY | Bird Feeders | PBS LearningMedia

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Feed your local birds with handmade bird feeders using pinecones, sticks and recycled paper rolls! Learn how to make three separate bird feeders using different materials found in nature.

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Honey Bees Drinking Water in Slow Motion

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Honey Bees Drinking Water in Slow Motion

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Honey Bees Drinking Water in Slow Motion

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-2 paper towel cardboard tubes
-scissors
-ruler
-pencils
-glue
-paper clips
-paint/spray paint (optional!)

You will end up with a creation like this one...

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1. Use a ruler and pencil to sketch out lines for you to cut out. Try to break your garbage bag into 30 strips of about 2 in. by 5 in., but any size about that will work.
2. Cut out the strips!

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1. Use a pencil to help you roll up the strips.
2. You can also use tape to lightly seal them so they don't unwind.

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1. Place your strips in the bottle.
2. Tie twine/string around the middle and then head outside!
3. Find a secure place outside your home to hang this up.
4. Keep an eye out for bees in the coming days!

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Slo-Mo Footage of a Bee Dislodging Pollen

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Slo-Mo Footage of a Bee Dislodging Pollen

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Slo-Mo Footage of a Bumble Bee Dislodging Pollen

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You won't bee-lieve your ears! Join Detective Mindy and Inspector Raz, an un-bee-table crime fighting duo, as they try to crack the case of the missing bees! It's all in this episode as we explore the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Wow in the world of buzzing bees! Originally Aired July 9th 2018.

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You won't bee-lieve your ears! Join Detective Mindy and Inspector Raz, an un-bee-table crime fighting duo, as they try to crack the case of the missing bees! It's all in this episode as we explore the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Wow in the world of buzzing bees! Originally Aired July 9th 2018.

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You won't bee-lieve your ears! Join Detective Mindy and Inspector Raz, an un-bee-table crime fighting duo, as they try to crack the case of the missing bees! It's all in this episode as we explore the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Wow in the world of buzzing bees!

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I really liked the videos. I did not know that once a new queen is born it kills all of the other sisters.

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Honeybee Hotel design in the making. Made from found driftwood, dry grasses, leftovers of saved Christmas Tree trunk rounds (was a 'tree necklace'), tiles and Alice's hummingbird model. The challenge now will be aligning the holes for the bees and gluing and nailing and hanging it all together!

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Detailings on the co-designing of the Honeybee Hotel

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Drawing of honeybee honeycomb hexagons

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Pollinator Garden with Honeybee Hotel and Hives

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On Wednesday, we made a little pollinator garden together! We saw a hummingbird come to look at our flowers!

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Our pollinator garden! It was fun! We also added some herbs and they smell and taste good! We also found a baby oak tree growing out of an acorn! We planted that too - in a shell!

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One challenge I had was cutting the round plastic bottle.