Honeybee Hive
Explore life in the hive by meeting workers, drones, and the queen bee herself! Visit flower patches to determine the best sources of food, and then perform a waggle dance to let the other bees know where to go. Can you help the bees find enough food to save the hive?
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Explore life in the hive by meeting workers, drones, and the queen bee herself! Visit flower patches to determine the best sources of food, and then perform a waggle dance to let the other bees know where to go. Can you help the bees find enough food to save the hive?
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Task Card: Honeybee Hive - Pollen Collection with a Waggle Dance
This task card can be used for remote learning or in class as a small group or individual activity. Stude... (more)nts will design a waggle dance to communicate the location of pollen to other bees. They will try to collect enough food so the hive strength increases and more bees are made.
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Biology, Environmental Science, Middle School Life Science
Task Card: Honeybee Hive - Types of Bees and Parts of a Hive
This task card can be used for remote learning or in class as a small group or individual activity. Stude... (more)nts learn about types of bees and the parts of a beehive. They then complete a RAFT writing activity.
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3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Science
Google Doc of Student Exploration Sheet
In the file, click on the link to make a copy of the Google Doc of the Student Exploration Sheet.
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3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Science
Partner Up - Bee Movement Activity
Use these movement cards to have students find partners. Students must do an action, rather than talk, to... (more) communicate. This is similar to how bees use movement to communicate. Pairs can then work through the Honeybee Hive Gizmo together.
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3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade Science
Honeybee Hive Vocabulary Document Translated Into French
This is the Honeybee Hive Vocabulary Document Translated Into French.
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Earth/Space Science, Middle School Life Science, Middle School Physical Science
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