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Resources

You can visit these websites, watch these videos, and read these books to become experts on bees!

General Infomation About Honeybees

http://www.greensmiths.com/bees.htm 

http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/detectives/kids/KIDS-000929.html

http://42explore.com/bees.htm

http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/bees/

Diagram of a Honeybee

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/bee.html

Colony Collapse Disorder

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070223-bees.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/business/27bees.html

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/disappearing-bee-theories.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRBJf57aNp4&NR=1 This is a video from the TV show, 60 Minutes.  It will explain Colony Collapse Disorder and you will listen to a beekeeper tell you about this serious problem. (8 minutes long) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RZv9BvQJ-A&feature=related This is more of the 60 Minutes episode. (4 minutes long)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niEZaD_G6PM&feature=related  In this 5 minute video beekeepers talk about CCD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIUo3STj6tw&feature=related  In this video Scientists talk about why bees are important and why CCD is a problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHHF6cbwNwM&feature=related This 2 minute video is about the disappearance of bees.

 Primary Sources

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:36465.pdf  Government hearing on CCD.

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/expertlist.htm Talk to a honeybee expert at the University of Florida.

Representative from the State Agricultural Commission. http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/

Mr. Bonifay, Beekeeper

How To Make a Garden

http://www.kidsgardening.org/pollinator/curriculum/index.php

http://www.kidsgardening.com/grants.asp

http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/mar01/cybe0103.htm

http://www.rvschools.org/lhoffman/ButterflyWebquest/ButterflyGarden.htm

Look for these helpful books in your classroom library...

The Life Cycle of a Honeybee by Ruth Thomson

Bees: Busy Honeymakers by Eulalia Garcia

The World of Honeybees by Virginia Harrison

Honeybees and Flowers by Lola M. Shaefer

Honeybees and Hives by Lola M. Shaefer

Honeybees and Honey by Lola M. Shaefer

Bees by Karen Hartley and Chris Marco

Bees by Enid Fisher

A Beekeepers Year by Sylvia A. Johnson

Growing the Food We Eat by Barbara J. Patten

The Magic School Bus: In a Beehive by Joanna Cole

Your teacher also has the video for The Magic School Bus: In a Beehive that you can check out to watch at home!