12.13.07
Bee Lapbook
Here is a bee lapbook we did last year for school.
This is the front cover

Here’s the inside

This is what I used to make the lapbook.
Vocabulary: brood, forage, beeswax, hive, drone, defense, nectar, ventilate, enzymes, pheromones, secrete, social
Honey bee label me printout
Bee wordsearch
Beehive shape book
Bee life cycle wheel
You will need to make 2 circles about 3 inches in diameter out of construction paper. Now you’ll need to punch out a hole in the center of each. Make sure the holes line up. On one circle cut out a “window”, about ¼ of the circle and then write “ The Honeybee’s Life Cycle” on it. They can decorate it if they wish with flowers and bees. This will be the top of the wheel. On the other circle divide it into 4 equal parts and have the student draw the four life stages of the honeybee. Place the other wheel on top and fasten together with a brass fastener.
Bee Facts is an accordian fold book with the answers to these questions.
1. What are the 3 types of bees in any colony?
2. What does each bee do?
3. How long do the different types of bees live?
4. Tell us something interesting you learned that you didn’t know before.
5. How do bees benefit humans?
6. How do bees benefit the environment?
7. How do bees communicate with each other?
8. Name the 4 stages of a bee’s life cycle.
9. What can we learn from bees?
Websites we visited
Read these interesting facts on honeybees
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/ic/trivia.html
Read anatomy of a hive
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/hive.html
Fascinating facts about bees
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/buzz.html
Dances with bees, watch bees dance
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bees/dances.html
Interactive online view of the anatomy of a bee
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/multimedia/bee.html
Information on the honeybee and different types of bees
http://www.gpnc.org/honeybee.htm
Biology of the Honeybee (best for upper grades)
http://koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/Plants_Human/bees/bees.html
Some stories we read
The Bees, The Drones, and The Wasps
http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/178.htm
Bees in the Hive
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=buckley&book=fairyland&story=bees
A Swarm Leaves a Bee Tree
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=pierson&book=forest&story=swarm
Jasmine said,
December 20, 2007 at 5:02 am
That looks like it was alot of fun!