Portuguese Bees
Informational Texts
Abelha coletando néctar e pólen, Insetos polinizadores, Amigos da agricultura - 1:48 min. video with close-ups of bees collecting pollen from a pumpkin flower [0:42-1:15 is excellent]
Abelhas - An informational text from a Brazilian encyclopedia for children
Abelhas brasileiras - An informational text about stingless Brazilian bees from an informational website for school children
Como o fim das abelhas pode acabar com a humanidade - A 2:49 min. animated video in Portuguese that explores how losing bees would impact humanity with exceptionally comprehensible images
Curiosidades - A simple page filled with bee facts in Portuguese from a children's encyclopedia
Dança das abelhas - complexidade irredutível - A 2:07 min. video that explains how and why bees dance in simple language with diagrams, interspersed with interesting facts
Fatos surprendentes da abelha do mel - Facts about honeybees
Esta abelha é fêmea do lado direito do corpo, e macho do lado esquerdo [Article] - Interesting article about a bee that has male reproductive organs on one side of its body and female reproductive organs on the other side
O desenvolvimento da abelha, de ovos incubados à fase adulta - A 1:04 min. wordless video set to music that shows the development of a bee
Por que abelhas fazem mel? #Ticolicos|EP40 - A 3:03 min. video in which a puppet interviews children in Portuguese about why bees make honey
Videoaula "Sem Abelha, Sem Alimento": A importância das abelhas na produção de alimentos - A 9:06 min. video that teaches all about bees. The parts of a bee are counted out and made very comprehensible around 3:45 min.
Videocast #5 - Como as abelhas fazem o mel? - A professionally made, high quality, 4:27 min. explanatory video in Portuguese with illustrated with footage from inside the hive
Meditations
🇧🇷 A ABELHA (MEDITAÇÃO GUIADA INFANTIL) - A 6:38 min. guided meditation with images of sunflowers and bees
Poems
A Abhelha Bela - A 1:28 min. poem in Portuguese, made comprehensible with puppets and objects
A abelha - coreografia, criação e ensaio - A 3:56 min. video in Portuguese in which elementary-school aged children dramatize a cute song about a little yellow bee. The first 49 seconds is the dance (which would be easy to teach for a program), the rest shows the dance teacher teaching the choreography in Portuguese
Abelha poema - A 1:47 min. video of the words to the poem in Portuguese, set to energetic music
A abelhinha abelhuda - A poem by Evanildes Goma Rocha
Poema abelha - A 4:26 min. poem by Vinicius Moraes in Portuguese (with text showing)
Popular Texts
5 Marcas fazendo sua parte para salvar as abelhas - A brief article in Portuguese about various brands that are helping to save bees
A dança das abelhas: Chame de colaboração ou co-criação. Cada vez mais empresas se valem das redes sociais em busca de lançamentos bem-sucedidos de produtos
Abelhas Assustadas Soltam Um Adorável 'Grito' Quando Um Companheiro De Colmeia Esbarra Nelas - An article about how bees get scared and scream when others bump into them
Após acidente, 20 milhões de abelhas fogem de caminhão nos EUA - An article in a Brazilian environmental magazine about how 20 million bees escaped due to an auto accident in Utah
Bombeiro à civil remove 15 mil abelhas de carro em estacionamento nos EUA - An article from an online magazine about how 15,000 bees were removed from a parked car in New Mexico
Caminhão com 25 milhões de abelhas capota nos EUA - An article about how a van overturned and spilled 25,000,000 bees on a highway in Utah (from a Brazilian perspective)
Meio bilhao de abelhas morreram no brasil e isso e uma pessima noticia - An article about how millions of bees are dying and why that is a problem
Milhoes de abelhas em fuga fecham rodovia de Utah - An article written by a journalist in Utah about the millions of bees that escaped due to an auto accident in Utah
O zumbido sobre a entomofagia: Comer insetos é mais que uma novidade? - An article about whether or not eating insects is more than just a fad
Que Estado É Conhecido Como O Estado Da Colméia? - A magazine article in Portuguese about why Utah is known as the beehive state
Você sabia? - An informational card with a bee fact on it in Portuguese
Songs
Abelha - Músicas e Animações para Crianças - Catarse - A cute, 1:58 min. music video that talks about how bees help flowers multiply by spreading pollen
As Abelhas - A 2:38 min. music video of the folk song in Portuguese, illustrated with drawings made with colored pencils
As Abelhas - Sung by a guy with a guitar and animated
Bento e Totó - Voa, Abelhinha (Desenho Infantil) - A 2:20 min. karaoke-style music video in Portuguese of a song that talks about flying, making honey, and not stopping and then counts to 10 and introduces the worker bee, the soldier bee, and the queen bee
Brincadeiras Parapiás. ABELHAS ZUMZUM - A video in which a teacher uses pom pons to physically engage very young learners with the song
Stories
A Abelha Ocupada - A 3:08 min. read aloud of the pop-up book about insects in Portuguese, set to music (this video shows the book better, but the sound quality is not good)
A Abelha Polenzinha - A children's book in Portuguese
As Abelhas - Animated version
Abelha: Pequeno milagre da natureza - A beautiful children's picture book with simple, rhyming text and beautiful illustrations about the role that bees play as pollinators (translated into Portuguese from English)
História Infantil: Zel e o Pote de Mel / Jane Prado / Primavera / Abelha / Bichos do Jardim - A 2:50 min. video about how the kind treatment a bee extends to those around her results in the sweetest pot of honey
Zi a abelha zonza - A beautifully illustrated (with watercolors) 1:45 min. children's story about a bee's adventures
Videos
Abelha A - A 1:22 min. video in which cartoon bees fly through the forest that ends with the letter A and the word abelha
La Abeja Maya - A segment in which a cartoon character describes how bees lay eggs and care for them in Portuguese (in translation)
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Cidade das Abelhas - 0:39-second video tour of the ecological park in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Colmeia de abelhas dentro de minha casa. 02 - A 3:49 min. video of a bare-chested man talking about relocating a hive of bees away from his house (but the surprise is that he does it with his bare arm (which you can see around 0:50 seconds into the video)
CONHEÇA NOSSAS ABELHAS SEM FERRÃO BRASILEIRAS!!! - A 1:14 min. animated video that explains that many bees in Brazil have no stingers
Dá a Mão à Floresta – Biodiversidade, vem aprender mais sobre as abelhas! - An animated, 2:30 min. video about the importance of biodiversity that features bees as a prime example
Pollination
Bee Movie - Polinização - A segment from the movie (translated into Portuguese) that discusses pollinization (Teachers could use this as a springboard for discussing what the movie "gets wrong" about the phenomenon)
Polinização das plantas - A 4:55 min. video in Portuguese that defines pollination and explains the various ways it can occur (best for secondary students)
Polinização - Excellent 0:41 second wordless, animated video that shows the process
Polinização - Canal de Ciências - A simple, 1:47 min. wordless animation that shows bees flying from flower to flower and trees producing fruit as a result (would work best to have children narrate the process aloud as they watch)
Pedagogical Resources
13 ATIVIDADES - ABELHINHA - A blog post filled with very nice printables that include bee counting worksheets, simple addition worksheets, the life cycle of a bee, poems, and a host of other useful resources for Pre-K and early elementary learners (in Portuguese)
Cheeto Pollination Experiment - Downloadable materials for the simulation in English
Encontre no jardim - A garden-themed scavenger hunt in Portuguese (For another garden-themed scavenger hunt in Portuguese, see: https://www.beesytoeasy.com/como-fazer-uma-caca-ao-tesouro-na-natureza/)
Honey bees dramatic play - Blog post with images (see also Bee unit craft and activittheclassroomcreative.com/2015/03/bee-unit-craft-and-activity/y)
Inova Escola em Casa - An 86-page, color PDF of nice worksheets for students learning at home that includes bee-themed activities based on a poem on pages 7-9, and canoe-themed activities for the parlenda "O virou canoa" on pages 13-15
Pollen transfer fine motor activity for preschoolers - Blog post in English with images
Pretend play beekeeping - Blog post in English with images