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#SSDecisionMaking: Which Wildflower Would You Choose?

5/7/2020

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Welcome to our new series of elementary interactive decision-making lessons. This lesson involves making decisions about choosing wildflowers and reading the children's book: Please Please the Bees by Gerald Kelly. 
Before Reading: Ask students to look at the image and make a prediction about how a bear, bees, honey, and wildflowers might go together in a story. Encourage students to ask questions about the relationships in the image. 
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During Reading:
Here are some Read Aloud Think Aloud questions to use with the story. Possible stopping points are listed to use with the embedded video below.
  1. Stop at :40 and ask: What were Benedict Bear's wants? What goods did he like?
  2. Stop at 1:17 and ask:  What was the problem?  Why do you think the bees went on strike?
  3. Stop at 2:24 and say: Flowers are a natural resource that bees use to make honey. What flowers should Benedict Bear plant? 
  4. Stop at 2:37 and ask: What work did the bees do before they went on strike?
  5. Stop at 3:10 and ask: What tools and equipment did Benedict Bear need to do his work?
  6. Stop at 3:56 and ask: How did Benedict and the bees trade goods and services? What goods did Benedict like? What services did the bees provide? 
After Reading:
​1) What was real in this story? What was not real? Now read the Once Upon a Bee-conomy to explore and learn more about the connections with Benedict Bear, the bees, honey, and wildflowers!



2) Next, we have created two interactive decision-making lessons in Nearpod.
Here is the 
editable link ​​ for the first lesson, which is appropriate for K-2. If you start your own free Nearpod account, you can edit the lesson to serve your needs. ​Otherwise, you can use the embedded lessons below as activities, as if you were showing a PowerPoint. 

Picking Wildflowers
The Picking Wildflowers activity is appropriate for grades upper elementary and middle school students. Here is the editable link ​.
More Resources:
Here is a collection of more resources to use with this topic. Enjoy exploring and creating some exciting investigations with your students!
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      • Save the Ocean
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      • Circular Economy
      • SDG 101
      • Earth Day Every Day >
        • Text Sets K-2
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      • Energy
      • Frozen
      • Garbage Solutions
      • Gardening
      • In Kindergarten >
        • In Kindergarten Bees
        • In Kindergarten with Peter Rabbit
        • In Kindergarten with the Lorax
      • Rethink Tank
      • In the Shark Tank >
        • Business Model Canvas >
          • Ideation
          • Value Proposition >
            • Customer Segments
            • Value + Customer Testing
            • Channels
            • Customer Relationships
          • Revenue
          • Costs >
            • Key Resources
            • Key Activities
            • Key Partners
      • Industrial Revolutions
      • Meet the Lorax
      • Practice Sustainable Manufacturing
      • Secondary Science
      • Solve Problems and Make Decisions
      • Use Design Thinking
      • Use Text Sets >
        • Text Sets At-risk Turtles
        • Text Sets Adopt a Road
        • Text Sets Recycle
      • Sustainable Development Goals >
        • SDG Ask the Right Questions
        • Good Life Goals
      • Toy Story: Trash to Treasure
      • Use the Arts to Inspire Change
      • Waste Not Want Not >
        • Waste Not Food Waste Lessons and Websites
        • Waste Not Composting Resources
      • Water
    • Decision Making >
      • Nearpod Lessons Part 1
      • DecisionMaking2
      • DecisionMaking3
      • DecisionMaking4
      • DecisionMaking5
      • DecisionMaking6
      • Peter Rabbit Decisionomics
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