In this lab, students will:

  • Discuss Honey bees and their role in pollination
  • Explore the honey bee life cycle
  • Observe dead honey bees using a microscope

Standards:

  • 3-LS1-1 – Reproduction is essential to the continued existence of every kind of organism. Plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles.
  • 3-LS4-4 – When the environment changes in ways that affect a place’s physical characteristics, temperature, or availability of resources, some organisms survive and reproduce, others move to new locations, yet others move into the transformed environment, and some die. (secondary)
  • 3-LS4-4 – Populations live in a variety of habitats and change in those habitats affects the organisms living there.

Typical Schedule*:

9:00 – 9:15 Arrive/walk to the lab
9:30 Start lab (up to 64 students**)
11:00 – 11:15 End lab

*Schedule can be adjusted to meet your school’s needs
**If you have more than 64 students, see large group schedule

Typical Large Group Schedule*:

9:00 – 9:15 Arrive/walk to the lab
9:15 – 10:45 Lab for A/B groups** (up to 32 students per group)
10:45 – 11:45 Switch groups
11:45 – 1:15 Lab for C/D groups*** (up to 32 students per group)
1:15 Depart

*Schedule can be adjusted to meet your school’s needs
**C/D groups participates in another campus activity; school chaperones arrange
***A/B groups participates in another campus activity; school chaperones arrange