Bee Bingo

Brief Description: Through Bee Bingo, students will learn just how many fruits, vegetables,

herbs and/or nuts that they eat and rely on bees for pollination

Objectives: The student will be able to associate agriculture products that require pollination

from bees in order to grow.

Materials:

Scissors

Copy of Bee Bingo playing board

Copies of words cut into strips to hold up one word at a time

Small Dixie cups

Small Honey Nut Cheerios or a bee/ honey item

Activity:

• Start with the group reading activity to give some background on bees.

• Each student gets: 1 Bingo card & 1 Dixie Cup with Honey Nut Cheerios

• Rules of the game: Every time the teacher calls out/holds up a word the student covers the

word and the picture that represents the word with a Honey Nut Cheerio from their Dixie

Cup.

• The first person that covers all the items on their B card wins the prize.

Bee Bingo Standards

SC.1.L.17.1 Through observation, recognize that all plants and animals, including humans, need the basic necessities of air, water, food, and space. Cognitive Complexity: Level 1: Recall

LAFS.K.RL.4.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

LAFS.1.SL.1.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade level specific topics and texts with peers and adults in small groups and larger groups.

LAFS.1.SL.1.2 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally through other media.

Easier: Bees are four-winged, flower-feeding insects. They have enlarged hind feet,

branched or feathered body hairs, and generally a stinger. Honeybees and bumblebees are

the most common. Bumblebees are larger and stronger than honeybees. Bees are benefi-

cial insects because they produce honey and pollinate crops. The honeybee is very popu-

lar. It has been adopted by at least sixteen states as the state insect. It is believed that hon-

ey history dates as far back as 10 to 20 million years ago and the practice of beekeeping to

produce honey, apiculture, dates back to at least 700 BC.

Harder: Honeybees (or hive bees) are in the animalia kingdom, the arthropoda phylum, the

insecta class, the hymenoptera order and the apoidea family. Beekeepers are sometimes

called apiarists. Honeybees and bumblebees (apidae subfamily) are social bees and live in

colonies. Solitary bees make their own small family nests. There are 10,0000 - 20,000 spe-

cies of bee including many wasplike and flylike bees. Most bees are small from 2 mm (.08

inches) long to 4 cm (1.6 inches) long. Bees and wasps are closely related. The main dif-

ference is that bees provide their young with pollen and honey, while wasps eat animal

food, insects, or spiders. In addition, wasps have unbranched hairs. Honeybees live in

hives, which are man-made or colonies inside of a nest. A small hive contains about

20,000 bees, while some larger hives may have over 100,000 bees. Hives include one

queen, hundreds of drones, and thousands of worker bees. The worker bees are female, but

they do not breed. The queen bee is female and creates all the babies for the hive. The

drone bees are male and do not have stingers. Bees communicate with each other about

food sources using dances. The sounds from the movement of the bees is picked up by the

tiny hairs on the bee’s head. Bees use the sun in navigation. The honeybee’s hive has cells

made of wax. This is where the queen bee lays her eggs. She can lay 1500 eggs in one day.

When the larvae hatch, they are fed by the worker bees. The workers collect pollen and

nectar from flowers. The pollen is used as a protein source and the nectar is an energy

source. Some of the pollen lands on the pistils of the flower and results in cross-

pollination. This is important for some crops and flowers. The relationship between the

plant and the insect is called symbiosis. Bees turn the nectar into honey. Workers must vis-

it over four thousand flowers to make just a tablespoon of honey. Beekeepers must be very

careful when they remove honey from the hive. They try not to hurt the bees. The bee-

keepers give sugar syrup to the bees to replace the honey that they take. The “killer bee” is

actually a type of African honeybee. In 1957, it was accidentally released in Brazil during

a science experiment. It began to move north and reached Mexico in the 1980s. It can now

be found in the southwestern US. These bees react very quickly, attack in large numbers,

and swarm for long periods of time.

Group Reading Activity:

Bee Basics

A Few Honey Facts

• Honey is a miracle food; it never goes bad.

• Honey should be stored at a temperature of 70F to 80F in a dry cupboard

• You can place a granulated jar of honey over hot water ( about 50-60C), as

soon as the granules are dissolved, remove the honey from the heat and let it

cool as quickly as possible. Remember, never boil honey!

• Honey is the only sweetener that isn’t man-made and has healing effects.

• Honey has a healthy Glycemic Index, meaning that its sugars can be gradual-

ly absorbed into bloodstream to result in better digestion.

• As a burn treatment, honey relieves pain effectively and heals wounds quick-

ly with minimal scarring.

• Honey contains vitamins and antioxidants; in fact one unique antioxidant

called “pinocembrin” is only found in honey.

• Honey is a healthier choice than artificial sugar.

• Although honey has more calories than sugar, it is sweeter and less can be

used.

• The color of the honey is determined by the plant from which the nectar was

gathered. It is not necessarily an indication of quality.

• It is believed that honey history dates as far back as 10 to 20 million years

ago and the practice of beekeeping to produce honey, apiculture, dates back to

at least 700 BC.

Vocabulary List

beehive: a man-made home to a colony of bees

beekeeper: a person who owns and breeds bees, es-

pecially for their honey.

colony: a group of bees living together in a nest.

flower: the seed-bearing part of a plant that are typi-

cally surrounded by a brightly colored petals.

honey: a sweet, sticky yellowish-brown fluid made

by bees from nectar collected from flowers.

honeycomb: six-sided wax cells in a beehive

queen bee: a female bee that lays eggs

pollen: a fine, powder-like material produced by

flowering plants

Pollen

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Playing Pieces

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Honeycomb

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Queen Bee

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Flower Colony