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
- Design, build, and test a pollination device
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.
- 3-PS2-4 – Testing a solution involves investigating how well it performs under a range of likely conditions.
- 3-LS4-4 – Different solutions need to be tested in order to determine which of them best solves the problem, given the criteria and the constraints.
- 3-ESS3-1 – Different solutions need to be tested in order to determine which of them best solves the problem, given the criteria and the constraints.
Typical Schedule*:
9:00 – 9:15 | Arrive/walk to the lab |
9:30 | Start lab (up to 64 students**) |
11:30 – 12:00 | 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 – 11:15 | Lab for A group** (up to 64 students) |
11:15 – 12:15 | Switch groups |
12:15 – 2:15 | Lab for B group*** (up to 64 students) |
2:15 | Depart |
*Schedule can be adjusted to meet your school’s needs
**B group participates in another campus activity; school chaperones arrange
***A group participates in another campus activity; school chaperones arrange