🐝 Honey bee report template
Three versions, one page each. Print the one for your child’s grade. The facts come from the honey bee page, every number with its source.
Grades 1–2
My report: the honey bee
Apis mellifera · Grades 1–2
| Length | not checked yet: look it up! |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 0.12 to 0.5 years |
Read about it
Honey bees live together in a hive. They visit flowers to collect nectar and make honey. Bees help plants grow fruit.
It lives in:
It eats:
The coolest thing I learned:
Where my facts came from
- USDA, Pollinator Facts (National Pollinator Week factsheet), usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pollinator-week-factsheet-final.pdf, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 3–4
My report: the honey bee
Apis mellifera · Grades 3–4
| Length | not checked yet: look it up! |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 0.12 to 0.5 years |
Read about it
A hive has one queen, who lays the eggs, and many worker bees, who do every other job: cleaning, building wax comb, guarding and collecting food. When a worker finds good flowers, she does a waggle dance that tells the others which way to fly and how far.
Where it lives (its habitat):
What it eats:
How its body helps it live there:
My favorite fact:
A question I still have:
Where my facts came from
- USDA, Pollinator Facts (National Pollinator Week factsheet), usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pollinator-week-factsheet-final.pdf, checked 2026-10-30
Grades 5–6
My report: the honey bee
Apis mellifera · Grades 5–6
| Length | not checked yet: look it up! |
|---|---|
| Height at the shoulder | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Weight | not checked yet: look it up! |
| Top speed | not checked yet: look it up! |
| How long it lives | 0.12 to 0.5 years |
Read about it
As honey bees move from flower to flower, pollen sticks to their fuzzy bodies and rubs off on the next flower, which helps the plant make fruit and seeds. Farmers bring hives to orchards for exactly this reason. Honey is made from nectar that the bees dry out by fanning their wings. A bee only stings to protect its hive, so the best thing to do near a bee is stay calm and move away slowly.
Habitat and range: where on Earth, and what the place is like:
Diet: what it eats, and what might eat it:
Adaptations: two ways its body or habits help it survive:
Is it in danger? Why or why not?:
Compare it with another animal you know:
Bibliography: write each source below as site, page title, date checked:
Where my facts came from
- USDA, Pollinator Facts (National Pollinator Week factsheet), usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/pollinator-week-factsheet-final.pdf, checked 2026-10-30