This page has a hive of activities to help you learn about bees.

Activity One

Learning About The Bees Body.

Read the information sheet about Bees Body. You may print it out.Include it in your

Bee Booklet.

Choose a Print Out.

Bee Body Parts or

Honey Bee print and colour.

Colour your bee correctly. Learn the body parts.

Print out, colour and make a honey bee. Here you will find your Honey Bee Pattern.

Check your bee colours!

Find and print the Honey Bee Fact File. Include it in your Bee Booklet.

Take a Bee Body Quiz.

Activity Two

The Life Cycle of the Honey Bee.

Read The Bees life Cycle.

You may want to print it out and include it in your booklet.

Use the print outs below to make a Bee Chart. Colour and cut out the stages of the life cycle. Paste them in order on your chart. Write captions for your pictures.

Queen Bee and her Eggs.

The Larvae.

The Pupae

Immature Bees within the comb.

Cell Pattern.

Cell Shapes.

Activity Three

Honey Bees and their Homes.

Read about Bee Homes.

Print out the Bee Hive colouring sheet.

Write what you know about bee homes around the hive.

Choose and complete.

Honey Bee word search. (Hard)

Bee Smart word search.(Easy)

Activity Four

Honey Bees as Pollinators.

Read An Apple For Your teacher, From the Bees!

The Apple Story. (Pollination) Print the story and read it in your reading group with your teacher.

Complete the Bee Worksheet.

Print out and complete the Word Search.

Activity Five.

Jobs Bees Do.

Read Jobs Bees Do.

Print and find your way around the Dancing Bees Maze.

Activity Six.

Bees Enemies.

Bees and the varroa mite.

 

Activity Seven.

Bee Stings.

Sting Apparatus.

Make some Kaleidoscope Honey Pops. to cheer you up!

Bee Haiku

Just For Fun.

Honey Bee colouring sheet.

Bumble Bee colouring sheet.

Poems and Proverbs about Bees.

Bee Crossword Puzzle. (Hard)

 

Kidbees

Bee Alert

Bee Riddles.

Try a Bee Picture Puzzle.

Learn a Bee Rap.

 

For Teachers.

Africanised Honey Bees on The Move. Lesson plans.

(This is an excellent teacher resource.)

Just How Serious Is This? (The varroa mite in NZ)

Bees.

Newton's Apple - Bee Stings.

Dances with Bees. Super site.

Bee Fact Sheets For Teachers.

These are print out sheets which give background lesson information.

The Honey Bee Body.

Honey Bee Biology.

What Bees Eat.

Honey Bees and Their Homes.

Honey Bee Senses.

Honey Bee Dances.

Parts of Flowers.

Honey Bees are Important Pollinators.

Bees and Bee Keeping.

The Life of the Bee.

Acknowledgements.

This page was created with the help of excellent resources from the

University of Arizona Africanised Honey Bee Project.

The graphics came from Bee Graphics by Vicki Mouse and

Beez Graphics

 

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