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Honeybee Lapbook Research
Three Types of Bees 1. Queen The queen is the largest of the three different types of bees. She has a very long abdomen. She uses her stinger to fight off other queen bees, and she can use it multiple times without dying. The queen's main purpose in life is to make more bees, and she can lay up to 2,000 eggs each day! 2. Drone Drones are the male members of the hive. They have a rounded abdomen, huge eyes, and powerful wings. They do not have a stinger, wax secreting glands, or even a proboscis, so they must be fed by the workers. They only purpose of a drone is to mate with a queen bee. After mating, the drones die. 3. Worker Worker bees are females who keep the hive afloat. They are the smallest of the three kinds of bee in the colony. Workers have a long proboscis (tongue) in order to suck up nectar from flowers. Their hind legs have stiff hairs that form pollen baskets. They have a stinger but can only sting once. When they sting, the barbs are like hooks, and the stinger gets stuck in the victim. As this happens, the stinger is pulled out of the bee's body which kills the bee. Has your student ever heard the expression "as busy as a bee?" Well, that's because worker bees are busy! Here are some of their responsibilities: 1. Guard the entrance to the hive 2. Clean the hive 3. Build the comb 4. Make honey 5. Keep the hive cool (by fanning their wings) 6. Tend to her majesty, the queen 7. Feed the baby bees 8. Collect pollen and nectar After a worker bee has made about 400 flights to retrieve nectar and pollen, the muscles in her wings and legs are worn out. She will fall to the ground and die.
Complete these mini-books: Types of Bees Layer Worker Bee’s To-Do List Bee Communication Does your student know that some animals "talk" to each other with different kinds of smells? Pheromones are chemicals that allow animals to do this. Here are some of the messages that bees send each other with pheromones: ~I live in the same hive as you ~I don't know you ~I'm a worker ~I'm the queen ~Danger! ~Protect the hive! Complete this mini-book: Pheromones Circle Book Finding Good Nectar Bees communicate by dancing, too. One kind of dance they do is the round dance. This dance tells bees that a food source is near the hive. The bee walks in a circle, then she turns around and goes the other way. Another dance bees do is the waggle dance. This dance tells bees that a food source is far from the hive. The waggle dance is done in different ways to show the other bees which direction they need to go to find the nectar. The bee who found the source starts out by making a figure eight. She waggles her body on the middle line. If she waggles straight up, the other workers know they need to fly toward the sun. If she waggles to the left, the other bees fly to the left of the sun. If she waggles to the right, they head to the right of the sun. Complete this mini-book: May I Have This Dance? Flap Book From Nectar to Honey Honeybees use the nectar they get from flowers to make honey.
1. They use their proboscises like straws to suck the nectar out of the flowers and they store it in their honey stomachs. Bees have two stomachs-- one used as a regular stomach and one used as the honey stomach which is a holding tank for the nectar. Your student may like to think of it as a nectar backpack. Honeybees must visit between 100 and 1500 flowers in order to fill the honey stomach which can hold 70 mg of nectar. 2. The honeybees return to the hive and pass the nectar to other worker bees. These bees suck the nectar from the honeybee's stomach through their mouths. 3. These house bees chew the nectar for about half an hour. During this time, the complex sugars in the nectar are broken into simple sugars. 4. The worker bees continue by spreading the nectar throughout the honeycombs where water evaporates from it. 5. The bees make the nectar dry even faster by fanning it with their wings. 6. Once the honey is gooey enough, the bees seal off the honeycomb with a plug of wax. The honey is stored until it is eaten. Pollination A bee's furry body carries pollen from flower to flower while she searches for nectar. While she stops at a flower for nectar, some pollen from other flowers she's already visited will rub off. This process, called pollination, helps the flowers make seeds which will grow into new plants. Complete this mini-book:| Pollination File Folder Nature Journal- Bee Observation If the weather is right, take your student outside. Find some flowers and observe them for at least 30 minutes. Where are the honey bees? Which flowers are the busiest? You may want to repeat this exercise on another day at a different type. Compare the results. Complete this mini-book: Observation cards & pocket
Bee's Wax & Hive Construction The wax for the hive is made inside the a bee's body. It comes out through openings in the bee's abdomen; these are called wax glands.
After the bee produces small flakes of wax, she uses her back and middle legs to pass the wax to her front legs. She puts the wax in her mouth, chews on it, and shapes it into cells. A cell is a chamber shaped like a hexagon. The cells are used for three things: bee eggs & larvae, honey storage, and pollen storage. The bees have to make thousands of cells in order to create a comb. Complete these mini-books: Hive Sweet Hive Cell Tri-fold Hive Robbers Humans love honey and different animals do, too! Some of the most common hive robbers are bears (who also want to eat the larvae), skunks, wasps, and bees from other hives. Complete this mini-book: Hive Robbers Petal Book
Lifecycle of a Honeybee 1. A queen bee lays an egg in an empty cell in the comb. It is a soft, white oval and is about the size of the dot over the letter i. (That's little!) 2. In just three days, a larva (like a worm) hatches from the egg. It is fed by the worker bees and grows and grows. 3. Seven days later, the larva stops eating. It spins a silk cocoon covering. Inside the cocoon, the pupa begins to develop. It will grow legs, wings, and eyes. 4. An adult bee chews its way out of the cell. Bee Senses How do honeybees see? With a compound eye which is an eye made up of thousands of tiny lenses that allow a honey bee to see ultraviolet light (humans can't see ultraviolet-- refer to Honey in a Hive for some pictures that will help explain this concept). How do they smell? Bees smell flowers with their antennae and with the pads on their feet. The smell tells the bee if the nectar will make good honey.
Un-bee-lievable Facts ~In one year, a colony of bees eats between 120 and 200 pounds of honey. ~A honeybee would have to fly about 55,000 miles to find enough nectar to make one pound of honey. ~It would take a honeybee approximately 1,600 trips from the flower to the hive (and back) to produce one ounce of honey. ~Honeybees will fly up to 8 miles from their nest to find food. ~The brain of a worker bee is about the size of the head of a pin. ~A honeybee would have to visit 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey. ~A honeybee visits more than 2,000 flowers on a busy day. ~Honeybees are the only insect in the world that produces food for humans. ~Queen bees can lay up to 2,000 eggs in a day. That averages out to one egg every 45 seconds! Complete these mini-books: Un-bee-lievable Facts Bee Vocabulary Beebread- a bitter yellowish brown pollen and nectar mixture stored in honeycomb cells; it is used by the honeybees as food Brood- the eggs and larvae in the colony Cell- a chamber shaped like a hexagon, built out of beeswax; cells are used for rearing the brood, storing pollen, and storing honey Colony- a group of animals living together Hive- home to a colony of bees Nectar- a sweet liquid found in flowers and plants Pollen- a fine powdery substance produced by the anthers of a flower Royal jelly- a milky, yellow syrup that worker bees produce and feed to potential queen bees when they are larvae Social insect- insects that work and live together in a community Swarm- a great number of honeybees leaving together from a hive with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere Pheromone- chemical substance (as a scent) that is produced by an animal and serves as a signal to other individuals of the same species Propolis- a sticky substance that bees collect from trees; they use it as glue to seal parts of the beehive which protects it from the weather Proboscis -long, tube like tongue
Note: Choose only a few words for your younger student; a long list may overwhelm and cause him to lose interest in the lapbook.
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What is ro
yal je
lly?
Who g
ets to
eat it?
Cu
t on
solid
. Fold
on
do
tted
.
’
Cu
t ou
t bo
ok as o
ne p
iece. Fold
in h
alf. Write in
the w
orker b
ee’s job
s. Review
thro
ugh
ou
t the w
eek. Have yo
ur
stud
ent list th
e job
s with
ou
t loo
king. M
ake a che
ck mark n
ext to th
e on
es he can
list. Paste the list to
the in
side
of th
e bo
ok.
A yo
un
ger stud
ent can
use th
e b
oo
k on
the n
ext page.
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Guard
the e
ntra
nce
to th
e h
ive
Cle
an th
e h
ive
Build
the co
mb
Make h
oney
Keep th
e h
ive co
ol
Tend to
the q
ueen
Feed th
e b
rood
Colle
ct necta
r and p
olle
n
Cu
t ou
t bo
ok as o
ne p
iece. Fold
in h
alf. Write in
the w
orker b
ee’s job
s. Review
thro
ugh
ou
t the w
eek. Have yo
ur
stud
ent list th
e job
s with
ou
t loo
king. M
ake a che
ck mark n
ext to th
e on
es he can
list. Paste the list to
the in
side
of th
e bo
ok.
Follo
w th
ese instru
ctio
ns. G
lue co
ver
piece to
the
fron
t of th
e bo
ok. U
se
the six sp
aces in th
e b
oo
k to w
rite
the six d
ifferen
t messages th
at bees
com
mu
nicate u
sing p
hero
mo
nes.
Round
Dance
Waggle D
ance
Waggle D
ance
Straigh
t Up
Waggle D
ance
Left
Waggle D
ance
Righ
t
Cut o
ut b
ook a
s one p
iece
. Fold
left sid
e in
. Fold
right sid
e in
. Open b
ook.
Cut o
n d
otte
d lin
es to
form
five fla
ps. R
efo
ld b
ook.
You are looking at the inside of the book. Cut shape out as one piece. Write one
common hive robber on each flap. Fold flaps in using the dotted lines as your
guide. Tuck the last flap under so that book will stay closed.
Cut books out as one piece. Fold in half. Write answers inside.
Cut book out as one piece.
Fold on dotted lines to form
a tri-fold book.
Inside the book: write one
way that cells are used on
each section.
Wha
t’s in
the
ce
lls?
Cut out as one piece. Fold in half. Let your student use the
inside of the file folder to write about pollination.
WORKER QUEEN
DRONE
Cut out each rectangle. Stack in order with cover on front and staple at the top of the book.
Time Flower Size Flower Color Number of Bees
Time Flower Size Flower Color Number of Bees
Time Flower Size Flower Color Number of Bees
Cut out bee logs on the previous page. Go outside and observe bees and record what you
see. Store observation cards in the pocket. (Print more cards as needed.)
To assemble pocket:
Cut out as one piece. Fold the back up. Fold the flaps around the back and glue down.
Bee observations
A honeybee would
have to visit 2
million flowers to
make...
The average honey-
bee worker makes
how much honey in
her lifetime?
Cut out each book as one piece (six total). Fold on solid line. Fold again so that the bee is covering
the words. Finish the statements/write the answers on the inside of the books.
Consider printing these pages on colored paper (unless your student wants to color all the bees).
Bees are the only
insect who...
A honeybee will fly
up to _____ miles
away in search
of food.
A honeybee takes
1,600 trips from
the hive to the
flower and back to
make...
Queen bees lay as
many as 2,000
eggs each day.
That’s one egg
every...
Honeybees use their proboscises to
suck the nectar out of the flowers.
The honeybees return to the hive and
pass the nectar to other worker bees.
These "house bees" "chew" the nectar for
about half an hour.
The worker bees continue by spreading the
nectar throughout the honeycombs where
water evaporates from it.
The bees make the nectar dry even faster by
fanning it with their wings.
Once the honey is thick enough, the
bees seal off the cell of the
honeycomb with a plug of wax.
Fold paper in half. Cut around hon-
ey jar shape to form a honey jar
shaped book. Let your student cut
and paste the statements to the in-
side of the book in the correct order.
Cut e
ach
pie
ce o
ut o
n th
e so
lid b
lack
lines. . L
et y
our stu
dent w
rite th
e
corre
ct word
s above th
e d
efin
itions. S
tack
togeth
er a
nd a
ttach
with
a
bra
ss faste
ner w
here
indica
ted.
a bitter yellowish brown pollen and nectar mixture stored in honeycomb
cells; it is used by the honeybees as food
the eggs and larvae in the colony
a chamber shaped like a hexagon and built out of beeswax
the eggs and larvae in the colony
a group of animals living together
home to a colony of bees
insects that work and live together in a community
a milky, yellow syrup that worker bees produce and feed to potential
queen bees when they are larvae
a fine powdery substance produced by the anthers of a flower
a great number of honeybees leaving together from a hive
with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere
chemical substance (as a scent) that is produced by an animal and
serves as a signal to other individuals of the same species
long, tube like tongue
a sticky substance that bees collect from trees; they use it as glue to
seal parts of the beehive which protects it from the weather
Cut e
ach
pie
ce o
ut o
n th
e so
lid b
lack
lines. . L
et y
our stu
dent w
rite th
e
word
s and d
efin
itions o
n e
ach
pie
ce. S
tack
togeth
er a
nd a
ttach
with
a
bra
ss faste
ner w
here
indica
ted.
Cut book out as one piece. Fold in half.
Use the inside to write about how bees construct their hives.
Use clip-arts below to decorate your lapbook.