Reviews for The Buzz On Bees: Why Are They Disappearing?

The average rating for The Buzz On Bees: Why Are They Disappearing? based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-22 00:00:00 Patricia Olsen Picture book #1 The Buzz on Bees 1. Twin Text: These Bees Count! by Alison Formento, @2012 2. The reason I chose this twin text is because it is about some school children going on a field trip to a "bee farm" and learning all about what bees do and how they help the environment. Since in elementary schools, many students take at least one field trip, I believe they will be able to relate a little bit to the children in the story. This book enhances the nonfiction text because it gives children the opportunity to see what types of things they may encounter on a "bee farm", whereas in the nonfiction text, they don't really go through too much of what you see at the farms. The nonfiction mostly talks about the disappearance and importance of bees. 3. The text structure of the non-fiction book is a problem and solution structure. The fiction text begins with a story about how a farmer noticed many bees have begun to disappear, and the author then goes into asking why this is a problem. Throughout the story, there are various explanations given and it mentions that scientists are still searching for more answers and solutions to how to stop this problem. This text also uses a little bit of the "Question and Answer" strategy when asking the reader what they think caused the bees to disappear, and come up with their own conclusion as they read the rest of the nonfiction text. A strategy application for the twin texts is I would probably have the students help me create a web of how bees are important to our world. In the middle I would have the word "bees" then some branches from that main one could be "pollination" and "economy". We could create another web with the main idea being "Why bee's are disappearing" and placing around it some explanations. A third web we could create would be "How to help bees from disappearing" and then each student could write about either of the webs a paragraph in more detail using information from the webs. 4. Book review citation for NONFICTION book: (2010, June 1). School Library Journal.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-08-29 00:00:00 Phil Kos This book helps answer questions about bees, and especially why honeybees are disappearing at an alarming rate. This book allows the reader to meet people through the reading, who are trying to solve the ultimate question on what is happening to the bee population. The book goes from talking about how disappearing bees made news, to the benefits of bees, to different kinds of bees, to factors causing the disappearing honeybees, to how scientists are working to solve the mystery and what we can do to help as well. I found it to be interesting how it took one beekeeper to discover thousands of bees had disappeared to make the news. The reason it made the news was because he talked to beekeepers across the country and they all were having the same problem. I found it to be interesting how informational this piece of children's literature truly was. Personally, I learned a lot about what bees do for the world and found it to be extremely fascinating, which I feel all elementary grades would benefit from such an informative book like this particular one.