Resource: Disappearance of the Bees - What's the Impact?
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QuickTime Video
Length: 5m 33s
Size: 15.2 MB
When Chinese farmers in South Sichuan Province, the largest producers of pears in that region of China, alerted the government to the absence of bees and that the year's crop was endangered, the government's unprecedented response was to insist on hand-pollination. Meanwhile, farmers in the United States, faced with the same dilemma, wonder if this method will someday, too, be their fate. This video segment adapted from Nature: Silence of the Bees discusses the impact of the bees’ disappearance, as well as the effects Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has on pollination and the world food supply. For more about bees, see the video segment, "Colony Collapse Disorder.”
Teachers' Domain, Disappearance of the Bees - What's the Impact?, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.text.beesdisap/
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Print Frame and FocusThe following suggestions are best suited for middle school students using this video in an English language arts or science lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.
Frame (ELA) What does the phrase “cause and effect” mean? What are you looking for when you answer a cause and effect question?
Focus (ELA) What is the effect of the disappearance of the bees? What specific problems does it create for people?
Frame (SCI) What do you know about pollination? Why is it important?
Focus (SCI) What steps do the farmers of South Sichuan Province in China take to address the problem of CCD?
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Related Resources:
Colony Collapse Disorder
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Source: Nature: "Silence of the Bees"
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