• Complete unit of work – 11 x 1 hour lesson plans
• Worksheets and assessment templates
• Supporting videos and sound clips
• 30x Bee Friendly Seed packets
• 30x Mini Honey Tasting Kits
• ‘Bees Are Our Friends’ by Toni D’Alia & Alice Lindstrom
• ‘Bee Play’ props including; cleaning gloves, ‘Blossom Bee’ plush toy, drawstring bag with wax, shield, headbands and buckets, prop pollen, and a crown.

‘Planting for Bees!’ provides students with opportunities to:

• Explore the anatomy of a honey bee and their lifecycle.
• Enjoy a honey tasting experience to explore how the nectar source creates the unique taste profile of different honeys.
• Learn about the cross section of a flower to develop an understanding of how bees pollinate and how pollination works.
• Understand the importance of the symbiotic relationship between bees, plants and humans.
• Learn about the importance of honey bees for our food security.
• Discover what ‘bee friendly’ flowers are and how we can encourage bees into our environments.

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• Complete unit of work – 11 x 1 hour lesson plans
• Worksheets and assessment templates
• Supporting videos and sound clips
• 30x Bee Friendly Seed packets
• 30x Mini Honey Tasting Kits
• ‘Bees Are Our Friends’ by Toni D’Alia & Alice Lindstrom
• ‘Bee Play’ props including; cleaning gloves, ‘Blossom Bee’ plush toy, drawstring bag with wax, shield, headbands and buckets, prop pollen, and a crown.

‘Planting for Bees!’ provides students with opportunities to:

• Explore the anatomy of a honey bee and their lifecycle.
• Enjoy a honey tasting experience to explore how the nectar source creates the unique taste profile of different honeys.
• Learn about the cross section of a flower to develop an understanding of how bees pollinate and how pollination works.
• Understand the importance of the symbiotic relationship between bees, plants and humans.
• Learn about the importance of honey bees for our food security.
• Discover what ‘bee friendly’ flowers are and how we can encourage bees into our environments.

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• Complete unit of work – 11 x 1 hour lesson plans
• Worksheets and assessment templates
• Supporting videos and sound clips
• 30x Bee Friendly Seed packets
• 30x Mini Honey Tasting Kits
• ‘The Honeybee’ by Kirsten Hall & Isabelle Arsenault
• Activity resources including; sand, icy pole sticks, and pipe cleaners.

‘Planting for Bees!’ provides students with opportunities to:

• Learn about the anatomy of flowers and bees to gain a deeper understanding into how pollination occurs.
• Explore the importance of honey bees and pollination for food security.
• Understand the importance of the symbiotic relationship between bees, plants and humans, how each helps the other to survive, as well as the impact of environmental factors on these relationships.
• Enjoy a honey tasting experience to explore how the nectar source creates the unique taste profile of different honeys.
• Discover what ‘bee friendly’ flowers are and how we can encourage bees into our environments.

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The versatile badge can be worn as a lapel pin, dress item or hat pin and can be worn by both men and women.

Bees retail at $25 each with profits going towards supporting Wheen Bee Foundation’s bee awareness activities.

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Arthur Wheen, father of Gretchen Wheen, was an Australian who escaped the parochialism of Sydney in the 1920s to live his life in England, after arriving on a Rhodes Scholarship. His brilliance as a writer and linguist was recognised by the wide acclaim that followed his 1929 translation from German of the classic, All Quiet on the Western Front. The book’s author, Erich Maria Remarque credited Wheen with a sensitive artistry [that] turned the translation into an original. These qualities, together with wit and eloquence, also characterised the many letters treasured by his family and friends.

As a young soldier in the AIF during World War I, Wheen was admired for his compassion and his unusual courage on the battlefield and was honoured for conspicuous gallantry. After the war, his interest in literature and the arts drew him into a circle of avant-garde writers, critics and artists, including T.S. Eliot, Herbert Read and David Jones. As Keeper of the Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum for more that twenty years, he used his knowledge of history and languages to broaden and enhance the museum’s collection of publications on aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

This is the story, told through letters, of one man’s war and his slow struggle out of the trenches towards peace – a peace soon shattered by personal loss and Hitler’s advance. It is the story also of a special relationship between a father and his daughter – Gretchen Wheen.

Format Hardback | 385 pages

Dimensions 1850 x 255 x 34mm | 1245g

Publication date 2011

Publisher Longueville Media

Publication City/Country Double Bay, NSW, Australia

ISBN13 9780987057013

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