Bee Happy Project is a project based learning environmental science activity for students in grades 2-5. 

Learning outcomes: This PBL project is designed to integrate ELA, writing, planning, art, geometry, growth mindset. 

Objective: The objective is to educate students about the importance of bees and how to protect them by understanding their role in ecosystems and food chains. 

Inquiry: The project encourages students to engage in research, critical thinking, and creative thinking as they explore the importance of bees and their conservation. 

Motivating question: How can we help protect bees? 

Activity pages include:

• Mindmap - What I know about Bees
• Design a Bee Friendly Garden
• Bee Sweet Eats - recipe
• Where Bees Live
• Pollination Lifecycle
• Protecting Bees
• My Favorite Fruits and Veggies - Made Possible by Bees
• Final Projects
• Hands on Extension Activities

Student Decision-Making: Students have the autonomy to make choices in the project, including designing a bee-friendly garden, creating bee-dependent recipes, developing communication forms, and choosing their final project. Student 

Feedback and Revision: Students write their own feedback on aspects like organization, research, and product design to help them improve their work during the project. 

Published Product: Students have the flexibility to select their preferred mode of presenting their findings, such as a poster, video, flip book, slide presentation, or short story, as the culmination of their project.

How to use: 

There are 8 activities that can be printed and organized into a binder or stapled together. Students can use the internet, textbooks, maps, and their peers as resources to complete the project. Each student will complete a unique project which they can present so that others can learn from their discoveries. 

Any or all of the pages in the pdf file can be printed and used for students across a wide range of ages/skills, or collaboratively with kids of different ages. 

Colored pencils, markers, crayons are great resources for decorating each sheet! The project aims to develop students' problem-solving and critical thinking skills, encourages collaboration among students, and enhances research abilities. 

Hands-on extension activities include bees wax wraps, making a bee-friendly garden or experimenting with creating a bee hotel. Depending on your student’s needs, there are several pages of scaffolding information, including vocabulary, facts, reading list, weblinks. Scaffolding can be done at any stage throughout the project as needed. 

Total Pages: 24 pages

Answer Key: N/A

Project Duration: approximately 1-2 Weeks