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Honey Bees

Find out why our 4th grade theme is A "Beehive" of learning.

This site has some great links to learn all about honey bees.

Here are some pictures of bees. Pick one or two to add to your group project.

Take a tour 1. Catching a Wild Hive 2. Catching a Swarm 3. Diseases and Afflictions of the honey bee. Then write and draw what you learned during the tour. Make sure you read the information.

Open the web cam and it will show you pictures of actual bees working. It updates every 30 seconds.

There are some interesting facts about honey bees here.

1. Bees make honey?
2. What is a colony?
3. Write 3 interesting facts about the Queen Bee.
4. How many worker bees can be in a colony?
5. What are the jobs of a worker bee?

Choose a game to play and test you knowledge of honey bees while you are at it.

Take a tour of an actural bee production. Make sure to read the captions. See if you can answer the questions under the activities button after you finish.

You must see this!

1. Click on the communication section and learn what the "waggle dance" is. Why is this such an important dance for the honey bee? What other things does this dance tell the other bees?
2. Workers These female bees have 3 life stages. What are their jobs during each stage.
3. Temperature What do the bees do during the winter? How do they survive? Tell something interesting about summer months.