Bee Tongues are Getting Shorter as Temperatures Warm

This informational text resource supports reading in the content area. The text explains how bees have made an evolutionary adaptation of shorter tongues. This adaptation is due to their mutualistic relationship with their flower food source moving up a mountain as a result of climate change.
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Direct Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bee-tongues-are-getting-shorter-temperatures-warm-180956738/

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Subject(s): English Language Arts, Science
Grade Level(s): 7
Intended Audience: Educators educators
Resource supports reading in content area:Yes
Keywords: mutualism, evolution, global warming, bumblebees, generalist insects, pollination, alpine bumblebees, adaptation, informational text, text complexity, climate change
Instructional Component Type(s): Text Resource
Resource Collection: STEM Reading Resources

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Bee Tongues Shrinking

In this lesson, students will analyze an article that explains how bees have made an evolutionary adaptation of shorter tongues due to their flower food source moving up a mountain as a result of climate change. This lesson is designed to support reading in the content area. This lesson includes two note-taking guides, text-dependent questions, a writing prompt, and sample answer keys.

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Lesson Plan

Bee Tongues Shrinking:

In this lesson, students will analyze an article that explains how bees have made an evolutionary adaptation of shorter tongues due to their flower food source moving up a mountain as a result of climate change. This lesson is designed to support reading in the content area. This lesson includes two note-taking guides, text-dependent questions, a writing prompt, and sample answer keys.

Type: Lesson Plan