Introduction
Have you ever looked closely at a honeybee and wondered why they are so important? What jobs do they do? How do they affect me?
During this webquest, you will find the answers to these questions and you might start asking your own.
Task
On your exploration of honey bees, you will be completing a graphic organizer to show your knowledge. Make notes of important facts and interesting details as you explore the webquest. You are telling the class how important honey bees are! Use your thinking caps and be creative.
Process
What's the buzz about bees?
Take a look at this website and take notes on your graphic organizer about honey bees.
Honey bees have more importance than some people realize. Honey bees are important in several different ways. Take a look at honey bees and jot down important facts.
Honey bees account for nearly 80% of crop pollination in the United States of America, because of the ease of transporting colonies across the country (although increasingly, some solitary bee species and bumblebees are being reared for pollination). Honey bees are actively pollinating at least somewhere in North America during every month of the year!
Honey bees have been trained to act as bomb detectors! Scientists have trained honey bees to react to minute amounts of chemicals found in explosives. Trainers reward honey bees with sugar water when they correctly sense a particular explosive compound, such that the bees automatically stick out their tongues in expectation of a reward when they correctly sense the compound.
Honey bees also provide every day products for us. Check those out at this link:
https://bees4life.org/blog/6-bee-products/bee-products .
Watch the video at the link below. Write down ideas about what would happen if all bees disappeared.
Evaluation
To make sure you understand the importance of honey bees, click on this: https://forms.gle/fkCrQRuAKSjiZcXCA and answer the questions.
Also make sure to turn in your completed graphic organizer on Google classroom.
Conclusion
At the end of this activity, you should understand what honey bees do for us as humans and what honey bees do for ecosystems.
Make sure you have completed the google form assessment and turned in your completed graphic organizer.