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Bee Unit Study

02
Jul

How is it possible that it’s been three years since I last posted?  I decided that I am going to start trying to post again now that it feels like life has slowed down a little bit.

We finished up school a few weeks ago and one of our favorite units was learning about bees.  I hadn’t actually planned on blogging about this, so I only have a few pictures that I took with my phone.

Bee Unit Study

After we spent a few days learning about bees, we drew and labeled bees in our science nature journals.

Bee Unit Study

We also studied the life cycle of a honey bee.

Bee Unit Study

Hunter is looking at a sesame seed with his magnifying glass.  We learned that a bee’s brain is the size of a sesame seed.  It’s pretty amazing all of the things that bees can do with such tiny brains.

Bee Unit Study

We took a field trip to learn more about bees.

Bee Unit Study

Field trip- looking at the life cycle

Bee Unit Study

Field trip- looking at the different kinds of bees

Bee Unit Study

Field trip- doing activities with hexagons

Bee Unit Study

We made some bee art.  The kids had to make a queen bee, a worker bee, and a drone.  Each one has different characteristics that they had to represent in their bee drawings.

Learning about bees has definitely made us less scared of them.  Now when a bee comes near one of us we just say, “It’s not going to hurt me, it’s just trying to pollinate.”

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