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Using Decision-making and Entrepreneurial Thinking
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.
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) 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.
The Picking Wildflowers activity is appropriate for grades upper elementary and middle school students. Here is the editable link .
Here is a collection of more resources to use with this topic. Enjoy exploring and creating some exciting investigations with your students!