HIVE: Teaching Tools
K-12 Teaching Tools that integrate ecology, botany, ethnobotany, & economic botany, health & wellness, literacy, & art .
HIVE is a multi-dimensional, thematic memory and matching game with supplemental discussion cards designed to develop environmental literacy of K-12 students. They supplement DIGS curricular units and can be used in classrooms, libraries, as a part of after-school programming, or for individual children at home. They are sold as sets by grade ranges and subject themes. Some HIVE games will be available Fall 2024, others 2025 and 2026.
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Pre K-K RED HIVE:
Garden HIVE of Letters
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Grades 1-2 ORANGE HIVES
Garden Blend HIVE, consonant blends & digraphs
Garden HIVE of Words
Healthy Plants HIVE (Nutrition & Medicine)(available 2025)
Pollination HIVE (available Summer 2025)
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Grades 3-5 YELLOW HIVES
Garden HIVE of Words
Ecology HIVE of Words
Healthy Plants HIVE (Nutrition & Medicine) (available 2025)
Native American Plants HIVE (available Fall 2025)
African American Plants HIVE (available 2026)
Pollination HIVE w/Pollination Power Activity (available Summer 2025)
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Grades 6-8 BLUE HIVES
Garden HIVE of Words & Definitions (available 2025)
Ecology HIVE of Words & Definitions (available 2025)
Native American Ecology HIVE (plant and significance matching) (available Fall 2025)
African American Plants HIVE (plant and significance matching) (available 2026)
Pollinator Plants HIVE (pollinator and plant matching) (available Fall 2025)
Healthy Plants HIVE (Nutrition & Medicine) (available 2025)
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Grades 9-12 PURPLE HIVES
Garden HIVE of Concepts & Definitions (available 2026)
Ecology HIVE of Concepts & Definitions (available 2026)
Philadelphia Trees HIVE: Leaf and Tree Matching (available 2026)
Native American Ecology HIVE (plant and significance matching) (available Fall 2025)
African American Plants HIVE (plant and nativity matching) (available 2026)
Pollinator Plants HIVE (pollinator and plant matching) (available Fall 2025)
Interspecies Ecology Puzzle HIVES (3 Pennsylvania native trees) (available 2026)
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