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