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Week 5 – Bees and Wasps

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5


Core Reading 556
DK Animal
In-Depth Reading 180-181 193 (social 186 and 196 (gall
Smithsonian wasps) wasps)
Handbooks
Supplemental Are You a Bee?
Reading By Judy Allen
Scientists
Activity Start a lapbook Short video on Look for wasps Visit a beehive
swarming nests and galls

Concepts to emphasize:

Some bees and wasps are social insects.

Undergo complete metamorphosis.

Websites:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/bee/Honeybeecoloring.shtml

http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/plantinsp/apiary/africanbees.html

http://www.backyardbeekeepers.com/ - the calendar section is especially interesting and you can find a local
beekeepers club here

Questions about honeybees:

What are the physical differences between a worker, a drone, and a queen bee?

What role does each type of bee play?

How does each type of bee develop?

Why doesn’t the queen bee go out to gather pollen?

What does a honeycomb look like?

How does the honey stay in the honeycomb?

What are Africanized bees?

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