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    The document outlines a week-long lesson plan about bees and wasps. It includes daily core and supplemental readings from sources like the DK Animal Handbooks and Smithsonian magazines on topics such as social wasps, swarming, and gall wasps. Hands-on activities are also scheduled such as starting a lapbook, watching a video on swarming, looking for wasp nests and galls, and visiting a beehive. Concepts emphasized include some bees and wasps being social insects that undergo complete metamorphosis. Recommended websites provide more information on honeybees, Africanized bees, and local beekeepers clubs. Questions posed cover physical and functional differences between honeybee castes as well

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    The document outlines a week-long lesson plan about bees and wasps. It includes daily core and supplemental readings from sources like the DK Animal Handbooks and Smithsonian magazines on topics such as social wasps, swarming, and gall wasps. Hands-on activities are also scheduled such as starting a lapbook, watching a video on swarming, looking for wasp nests and galls, and visiting a beehive. Concepts emphasized include some bees and wasps being social insects that undergo complete metamorphosis. Recommended websites provide more information on honeybees, Africanized bees, and local beekeepers clubs. Questions posed cover physical and functional differences between honeybee castes as well

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    The document outlines a week-long lesson plan about bees and wasps. It includes daily core and supplemental readings from sources like the DK Animal Handbooks and Smithsonian magazines on topics such as social wasps, swarming, and gall wasps. Hands-on activities are also scheduled such as starting a lapbook, watching a video on swarming, looking for wasp nests and galls, and visiting a beehive. Concepts emphasized include some bees and wasps being social insects that undergo complete metamorphosis. Recommended websites provide more information on honeybees, Africanized bees, and local beekeepers clubs. Questions posed cover physical and functional differences between honeybee castes as well

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    Week 5 – Bees and Wasps

    Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5


    Core Reading 556
    DK Animal
    In-Depth Reading 180-181 193 (social 186 and 196 (gall
    Smithsonian wasps) wasps)
    Handbooks
    Supplemental Are You a Bee?
    Reading By Judy Allen
    Scientists
    Activity Start a lapbook Short video on Look for wasps Visit a beehive
    swarming nests and galls

    Concepts to emphasize:

    Some bees and wasps are social insects.

    Undergo complete metamorphosis.

    Websites:

    http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/insects/bee/Honeybeecoloring.shtml

    http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/pi/plantinsp/apiary/africanbees.html

    http://www.backyardbeekeepers.com/ - the calendar section is especially interesting and you can find a local
    beekeepers club here

    Questions about honeybees:

    What are the physical differences between a worker, a drone, and a queen bee?

    What role does each type of bee play?

    How does each type of bee develop?

    Why doesn’t the queen bee go out to gather pollen?

    What does a honeycomb look like?

    How does the honey stay in the honeycomb?

    What are Africanized bees?

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