honey bee mini books

14 Mini-Books to add to
Notebooks or Lapbooks
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Honey Bee Mini-Books
Copyright © March 2008
by Notebooking Nook
5130 Hwy. 95
Fort Mohave, AZ 86426
www.notebookingnook.com
All rights reserved.
This book may only be used by purchaser for use in
their own family or signal classroom. You may store
a copy on a disc for your own personal use. Not for
use by an entire school or co-operation.
Images © 2008 JuniperImages Corporation
Created and Designed by:Betsy Stout
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Table of Contents
Book Suggestions 4
Vocabulary 5
Vocabulary Pocket 6-10
Life Cycle of a Bee 11
Bee Anatomy 12
Queen Bee (2 mini-books) 13-14
Worker Bee 15-17
Drones 18
How Bees Help and What They Give Us 19
The Waddle Dance 20-22
Honey Bee Predators 23
Other Kinds of Bees 24-27
Bee Facts 28

Report Mini-Book 29-34
Resources Mini-Book 35-36
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Book Suggestions
Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 2 - Chapter Three ~ All About Bees
The Bee, Friend of the Flowers by Paul Starosta
The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons
Bees! by Editors of TIME for Kids with Elizabeth Winchester
Amazing Bugs by Miranda MacQuitty
Use the pictures throughout this
book to decorate your notebook
or lapbook.
The cover page of this book could
be cut out to use as your
notebook or lapbook cover.
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• Print pocket and cards on card stock.
• Fold large flap back, then glue small flaps down.
• Definitions available below to glue on cards.
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the usually
aboveground nest
of bees
a bitter yellowish brown
pollen mixture stored in
honeycomb cells and
used with honey by
bees for food
a population of
plants or animals
in a particular place
that belong to one
species
a sweet liquid given off
by plants and especially
by the flowers and used
by bees in making
honey
A substance rich in
vitamins and proteins
that is secreted from

glands in the head of
honeybees and is fed to
all very young larvae
and to all maturing
queen bees
a great number of
honeybees leaving
together from a hive
with a queen to start a
new colony elsewhere;
also ; a colony of honey-
bees settled in a hive
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a thick sugary material
prepared by bees from
the nectar of flowers
and stored by them in
a honeycomb for food
a mass of six-sided wax
cells built by honeybees
in their nest to contain
young bees and stores
of honey
a small compartment,
cavity, or bounded
space
A mass of tiny particles
In the anthers of a flower
that fertilize the seeds
and usually appear as

fine yellow dust
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Life Cycle
of a Bee
Cut out
This portion
• Copy onto card stock.
• Cut outer edges and on dotted lines.
• Cut out the different stages of a bee and add one to each section.
Egg
Pupa
Larva
Adult
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Work Bank
Eyes Forewing
Antennae Hindwing
Pollen Basket Abdomen
Thorax Head
Bee Anatomy
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How many
queens live
in one hive?
What is the
queen’s
Main job?
How many
eggs could a
queen lay

each day?
How long
does a
queen live?
• Cut around outer edges and
on dotted lines.
• Fold flaps in towards title.
• Cut out questions and add
to the front of flaps.
• Write answers inside flaps.
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• Cut around outer edges and on dotted lines.
• Fold in thirds.
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• Cut around outer edges.
• Add jobs and other
interesting facts of the worker bee.
• Inserts available at the end of
this activity.
• Secure with a braid
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Cleans, Repairs, and
Defends the Hive
Builds the Comb
Makes the Honey,
Beebread and Royal Jelly
Collects Nectar
and Pollen
Keeps the Hive Cool

Guards the Entrance
Live about 4
Months in Winter
Live about 6
Weeks in Summer
About 50,000 Worker
Bees in One Hive
Tends and feeds the
Queen and Brood
Clipart that can be added to your fan book
or your lapbook.
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• Cut around outer edges and fold in half.
• Lined portions are optional inserts.
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• Cut around outer edge. Fold in thirds and fold cover down.
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• Cut around outer edges.
• Fold in half.
• Inserts available on following pages.
• Decide what the waddle dance is.
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Insects Spiders
Reptiles &
Amphibians
Birds Mammal;s
Cut around edges and dotted lines.
Fold title just below the bottom of bear.

Fold flaps to down.
Cut out labels and glue to top of flaps.
Write the types of predators from each
category.
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• Copy cover onto card stock.
• Cut around outer edges.
• Stack and staple along along top.
• Additional pages are on the pages that follow.
Coloring Page
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