Worksheets & Activities

Hexagon template with writing guide for writing facts and sentences.

Blank hexagon template for drawing or writing.

Practice writing skills by writing a beekeeper's character traits. Multiple worksheets with words banks, prompts, and word tracing.

Draw a picture of each life cycle stage of the Monarch Butterfly.

Practice writing skills on the wings of this butterfly. Try writing one fact on each wing.

Record information about how and where you released the Monarchs you raised. If you send this back to us, we'll record it in our annual statistics!

Measure the growth of your Monarch Caterpillars. Practice measuring skills, or even use the data to create a graph.

Observe pollinators in your local community. See how many different kinds of pollinators you can find, along with their food, water, and shelter.

Practice math and science skills by measuring the growth of seedlings each week.

Use this tasting sheet to explore the tastes of different foods. Try to find foods that are sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami. Need ideas? Check out the Sense Salad Examples for ideas of what to sample.

Use this recipe sheet to design your own Sense Salad using sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami ingredients.

Use these example ingredients and tips for creating your own Sense Salad.

Research plants that provide food for pollinators. Plants should provide pollen and nectar, and something in the garden should be blooming all year.

Go on a scavenger hunt for the parts of the plant that we eat! You could do this in a garden, neighborhood, or even a kitchen.

Label parts of the plant and list examples of parts of plants that we eat. You could use this as a tasting guide as well!

Observe the pollinators in your community. Record your data in this Pollinator Count Table.

Honey bees are facing many problems that are causing populations to decline. Match each problem with a description of the problem.

Label each honey bee caste and describe the job(s) that each caste performs.

Compare the similarites and differences between honey bees and native bees such as Bumble Bees, Carpenter Bees, and Mason Bees.

Put the life cycle pictures in the correct order and label each stage of development (Egg, Larvae, Pupa, Adult Bee).