Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation © 2011 These short activity ideas are great for rainy days, fast finishers, or when things just don’t go according to plan. If you’re starting out with curriculum integration in the garden, try extending one of these activities further into the subject listed below it. Build on the idea and collaborate with Kitchen and Garden Specialists to create a unit of your own, custom-made for your students. Curriculum Links These activities can be linked to the Australian Curriculum. Here are the main links for Science, Maths and English at Years 3 and 4. Science • Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (Years 3 and 4, ACSHE051 and ACSHE062). • Living things have life cycles (Year 4, ACSSU072). • Living things, including plants and animals, depend on each other and the environment to survive (Year 4, ACSSU073). Maths • Create and interpret simple grid maps to show position and pathways (Year 3, ACMMG065). English • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (Years 3 and 4, ACELY1682 and ACELY1694). 1. What do bees do in our garden? Investigate the life cycle of bees and how they collect nectar. (Science) 2. Learn about hives, honey and communal working. What does this make you think about the phrase ‘busy as a bee’? (Science, environment) 3. Taste test three different types of honey and write tasting notes. Try to use creative adjectives to describe the taste, not just ‘yummy’ or ‘yucky’, ‘sweet’ or ‘sticky’. Focus on texture, smell and how it feels on your tongue. (English) 4. Investigate how bees communicate by dancing to show where the pollen can be found. Create a ‘bee dance’ of your own. Take turns and make it into a game like charades: each ‘bee team’ gets a card with a location in the garden. Can the others work it out? No words allowed, except bzzzzzzzzz … (The Arts) Ten Beautiful Bees activity ideas | Teacher Resource 17 Tools for Teachers 2 – Years 3 & 4

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These short activity ideas are great for rainy days, fast finishers, or when things just don’t go according to plan.

If you’re starting out with curriculum integration in the garden, try extending one of these activities further into the subject listed below it. Build on the idea and collaborate with Kitchen and Garden Specialists to create a unit of your own, custom-made for your students.

Curriculum LinksThese activities can be linked to the Australian Curriculum. Here are the main links for Science, Maths and English at Years 3 and 4.

Science

• Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (Years 3 and 4, ACSHE051 and ACSHE062).

• Living things have life cycles (Year 4, ACSSU072).• Living things, including plants and animals, depend on each

other and the environment to survive (Year 4, ACSSU073).

Maths

• Create and interpret simple grid maps to show position and pathways (Year 3, ACMMG065).

English

• Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts (Years 3 and 4, ACELY1682 and ACELY1694).

1. What do bees do in our garden? Investigate the life cycle of bees and how they collect nectar. (Science)

2. Learn about hives, honey and communal working. What does this make you think about the phrase ‘busy as a bee’? (Science, environment)

3. Taste test three different types of honey and write tasting notes. Try to use creative adjectives to describe the taste, not just ‘yummy’ or ‘yucky’, ‘sweet’ or ‘sticky’. Focus on texture, smell and how it feels on your tongue. (English)

4. Investigate how bees communicate by dancing to show where the pollen can be found. Create a ‘bee dance’ of your own. Take turns and make it into a game like charades: each ‘bee team’ gets a card with a location in the garden. Can the others work it out? No words allowed, except bzzzzzzzzz … (The Arts)

Ten Beautiful Bees

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7. Visit a bee-keeper or invite one to school. How do they manage the bees so that the bees are healthy and produce the best honey? (Science)

5. How far can bees travel, searching for nectar? Take a map of your area and plot this distance in a ring around your garden. Where might your bees be coming from? (Maths)

6. Why is honey quarantined in some states? (Honey can contain pollen and other elements, and can introduce species to an area.) Investigate introduced species: what are they in our area? (Science)

8. Listen to a piece of music, such as Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, then assemble your ‘bee symphony’ and bzzz (hum) your garden version. Record it and cut a track to use as the music in a video about bees. (Music, ICT)

9. What are some other pollinators and how does the process of pollination happen? (What is cross-pollination?) (Science)

10. How have flowers evolved to attract bees? What about other pollinators – for example, how do flowers attract moths? (Science)

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