Curated OER
Honey Bees and Communication
Did you know that honey bees dance to communicate information? Do you know why bees use hexagons to build their hives? The Honeybee Man, Brilliant Bees, and Show me the Honey provide background information on how honey bees communicate....
Curated OER
Honey Bee Communication
Students participate in a role play to show how honey bees communicate with one another. In this honey bee lesson, students learn that honey bees communicate with dance. Students create the honey bee environment and role play the dances...
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The Disappearing Honeybees: Tracking Honeybee Decline
Young scholars practice graphing and other math skills to track number of honeybee colonies present in United States since 1978, discuss major crops that are dependent on insect pollinators, and examine reasons for decline of United...
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Do the Honeybee Dance!
Young scholars use dances to learn about honeybees and how they communicate. In this honeybee activity, students discuss how bees communicate. Young scholars study diagrams of dances and practice them. Students locate special treats in...
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The Magic School Bus in a Beehive
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. For this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students dance the Honey-Bee-Bop to communicate the location of hidden flowers.
Curated OER
Are Cellphones Killing Honeybees?
Students read an article about how honeybee are sensitive to the electromagnetic fields generated by cellphones. In this ESL lesson plan, students work as partners to complete a table of information relating to the many bee species in...
Curated OER
Communication in Bees
Eighth graders identify and interpret a scientific investigation and a hypothesis through experimentation and testing a hypothesis. They identify what scientists hypothesized about the communication of stingless bees. Finally, 8th...
Curated OER
Insect Communication and Harmful Insects
Seventh graders use children's literature in order to create an interesting context for the instructional activity. The concept of insect communication is investigated in order for students to form educated hypothesis guesses.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bee Navigation
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores honeybee communication and navigation. [4:45]
University of Kentucky
Uk: Starting an Observation Hive of Honey Bees
This interesting site explains how one goes about creating a honey bee hive for observation purposes.
Other
Penn State University: Bee Behavior
Penn State University and the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Consortium offer an excellent site on everything you need to know about bee behavior.
Michigan Reach Out
Newton's Apple: Why Do Bees Sting?
Lesson plan that explains why bees sting, how bee societies are organized and an activity for students to learn how bees communicate using pheromones.