EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Name: Wanda Burton Lesson Title: A Bees Life Revisited st Grade: 1 Grade Type of Lesson: Duration: Introductory 1 hour

Date of lesson: Oct. 24, 2012 Content Area: Life Science/Animals/Bees School: Rykers Ridge Elementary Multicultural Goals: Bennetts Core Value: reverence for the earth Bennetts Goal Five: increase awareness of the state of the planet To address Bennetts value and goal, students will be told how scientists are studying the fact that honey bees are becoming more aggressive throughout the world. Assessment Tool(s): Worksheet Assessment Criteria: Students should complete the Honey Bee Type worksheet with 85% accuracy. Students should complete the Bee Trivia worksheet with 85% accuracy.

Objective(s): Students will be able to distinguish and identify by features the three types (castes) of honey bees. (queen, worker, drone) Students will be able to characterize and summarize the duties of each type of honey bee, and how they relate to the overall survival of the species.

Academic Standards: 1.3.4 Describe how animals habitats, including plants, meet their needs for food, water, shelter and an environment in which they can live. 1.3.5 Observe and describe ways in which animals and plants depend on one another for survival. Differentiation/Adaptations: Tell students how the honey bee does a dance to tell each other where they have found pollen and nectar outside the hive. Higher skilled students who complete their worksheets early could research information on the internet about the dance to share with the rest of the class. (Standard: K.3.2 Describe and compare living animals in terms of shape, texture of body covering, size, weight, color and the way they move.) Background Knowledge/Prerequisite Skills: The previous lesson on how to identify a honey bee from other insects would be a prerequisite. Multiple Intelligences/Learning Styles & Blooms Levels: Visual learners will have the pictures of the bees to help them. Auditory learners will find the bee video & oral review of the bee facts very helpful. Verbal & linguistic learners will gain a benefit from the oral review of bee facts and the written worksheets. After this lesson, students will be at Blooms knowledge level.

Materials: Honey Bee Type worksheet. Bee Trivia worksheet Teacher worksheet, bee notes, & bee images The book, In the Trees, Honey Bees or another childrens bee book. Computer & whiteboard to view YouTube video.

Technologies Implemented: The computer will be used to watch a YouTube video on bees.

Modifications: Students who are unable to write the letters or draw the lines to the correct answers on the worksheets could point or gesture to the correct answer and another student or a student aid could complete the worksheet for them. Anticipatory Set: Ask the students if they have ever seen a real honey bee hive. If someone has, then let them tell a little about it. Read the book In the Trees, Honey Bees by Lori Mortensen or another bee book of your choice. Watch the YouTube video about bees at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsCmSWoF8PY

Procedures: After reading the book and watching the video, review the three honey bee castes and discuss their duties in and out of the bee hive using the teacher worksheets and notes. To assess students understanding, have them complete the Honey Bee Types & Bee Trivia worksheets Closure: Explain how each type of honey bee is important to the survival of the entire hive, without one type, the other two will die. Let any advanced students that researched the bee dance online tell the other students about it now. Once they have explained the bees' way of communicating, you could transition into a lesson on the ways mammals, humans or other insects communicate with each other. UDL Chart:

Multiple Means of Representation: print, video clip, oral discussion, images

Multiple Means of Engagement: difficultly levels, internet

Multiple Means of Expression: print, story telling

Honey Bee Notes

Honey bees are social insects and live in groups called colonies. They build their own homes called hives. Worker bees leave the hive and visit many flowers, plants, and trees gathering nectar and pollen for food. They also bring water back to the hive. They make about 10 trips a day lasting an hour each time. The queen and the drones do not leave the hive; they rely on the worker bees to bring food and water back to them or they will die. A bee colony needs a queen to continue to lay eggs or the colony will die. She lays up to 3,000 eggs a day. When a bee stings a human or mammal, it sets off an alarm system that calls the other bees into battle. The worker bees stay inside the hive for the first three weeks after being born cleaning up the hive, feeding everyone, making wax and honey. Then the next three weeks she goes outside to gather food and water, or she stands guard at the entrance to the hive, flapping her wings to cool the hive down. The worker bee will only live for about 40 days in the summer and a few months in the winter.

Three Honey Bee Types

QUEEN
Female

WORKER
Female

DRONE
Male

Lays eggs Matures into an adult in 16 days Largest of the three types Has a stinger, but doesnt die if she uses it Has a longer abdomen

Collects food Takes care of the queen Guards the hive

Mates with queen, then dies Matures into an adult in 24 days Does not have a stinger Round-shaped abdomen Larger eyes & antennae than females Must be fed by worker bees

Builds honey comb

Matures into an adult in 21 days Has a stinger, & dies if she uses it Smallest of the three types

Honey Bee Type Worksheet

Draw a Line to the Correct Picture

a. Worker bee b. Lays eggs c. Collects food d. No stinger e. Drone bee f. Can sting many times without dying g. Queen bee h. Guards the hive

Bee Trivia
Worksheet
Directions:

Find the answer to each question in the box to the right. Write the letter of the correct answer on the line.
A.

Answers Flowers, trees, plants Colony 3 weeks No Hive 3,000 Flap their wings 10

_____How do bees cool off their hives in the summer?

_____How long do worker bees stay in the hive when they are born?

B. C. D. E. F. G. H.

_____How many eggs does a queen lay in a day?

_____Does the queen leave the hive to get food?

_____Where do bees find pollen & nectar for food?

_____What is a bees home called?

_____What is a family of bees called?

_____How many trips outside the hive do the bees make each day?