We have begun to study bees and the important part they play in the pollination of our plants. We started with “What do we Know About Bees and “What are we Wondering About Bees”. This gave us a good basis to work from and see how much prior knowledge we possessed. I then had the students illustrate what they think a bee looks like on half a sheet of paper. At the end of our unit, the students will be asked to draw another picture of a bee and include all that they learned. We can then put the two sketches together and visually assess how much information was learned.
We observed real bees this past week and identified the different parts of the bee’s body. Then we made bee sticks to pollinate our plants. It is really neat because you can actually see the pollen stick to the bee’s body. We have read many books on Honeybees. Ask your child about some of the interesting facts we learned. We will observe the changes in our flowers as we cross-pollinate and you may even be able to see the pods on our plants.
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