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

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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