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• Mutualism
• Pollination: How Bees Power Our Ecosystems
• Dive Deeper: Symbiosis and Mutualism Explained

• Look Inside a Flower
• From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons | Read Aloud Video
• What's Inside a Flower? | Read Aloud with Author Rachel Ignotofsky

• How Plants Grow
• How Does a Seed Become a Plant?
• ANSWER KEY: Parts of a Seed
• What's Inside a Bean?
• Roots, Stem, Leaves, Flower | Parts of a Plant Song
• How Do Plants Grow? | The Magic School Bus Season 3, Episode 10

• Flowers and Their Pollinators: A Perfect Match!
• Like Fruit? Thank a Bee!
• Butterfly or Moth?
• BONUS PAGE! Butterfly Lifecycle
• How Does a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly?
• How to Make an Origami Butterfly

• Honeybees PDF
• Honeybees Booklist
• ANSWER KEY: Bee Lifecycle
• ANSWER KEY: Honeybee Anatomy

Honeybee Links:

• Beekeeper | Virtual Field Trip
• How To Draw A Realistic Bee
• Pollination: How Bees Power Our Ecosystems
• Busy Bees!
• How Do Bees Make Honey? | The Science of Food!
• Honeycomb Under a Microscope! (The Life Cycle of a Honeybee)

Additional Video Links:

• How to Make a Bee Cafe!
• Wild Kratts: The Toughest Honeybees
• The Magic School Bus: How is Honey Made?

• Meet the True Bugs
• Inspect an Insect
• A Simple Way to Tell Insects Apart (advanced video)
• Why Are There So Many Insects? (advanced video)

• What is an Entomologist?
• I Want to Be an Entomologist!
• ANSWER KEY: I Want to Be an Entomologist
• Meet an Entomologist
• This 11-year-old’s Love of Bugs Has Been Turned into a Children’s Book
• The Bug Girl by Sophia Spencer | Read Aloud Book and Interview with The Author
• The Bug Girl (Maria Merian) by Sarah Glenn Marsh | Read Aloud Video
• Animal Tricksters (Mimicry)
• Insect Sounds
• Cicadas: The Loudest Bugs in the World!

• Ant vs. Ladybug vs. Aphid (in extreme macro)
• ANSWER KEY: Cause & Effect

• BONUS! Insect Research Page
• How to Draw a Monarch Butterfly
• How to Draw a Ladybug
• How to Draw an Ant (younger)
• How to Draw a Japanese Beetle

Bugs & Blooms PDF Instruction Guide (Password protected - see booklet)

Bugs & Blooms PDF Activity Pages (Password protected - see booklet)

Bugs & Blooms Standards

Supply List

Supplemental Booklist