Resource: Bees
Media Type:
QuickTime Video
Length: 5m 06s
Size: 14.6 MB
This video segment from WILD TV offers this daring look at bees, an often misunderstood insect. Mace Vaughan, an entomologist or expert on insects, teaches us about how bees swarm, the jobs of the queen and worker bees, how bees communicate with each other, and how the colony survives. Once you are instructed on how to move and act around bees, you won’t be stung. In fact, this video shows bees swarming on a man’s face. It is called a bee beard.
Teachers' Domain, Bees, published August 26, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.ws.process.bees/
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The following suggestions are best suited for elementary or 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 helps you come up with ideas when you are writing? For example, how do you draw ideas from past experiences, your feelings and things you like or do not like? How do you use these past experiences in your writing?
Focus (ELA) Think about what kind of writing this video segment might inspire in you.
Frame (SCI) What is an entomologist? What do they do, and how do they benefit society and the insect population?
Focus (SCI) Watch how Vaughan’s knowledge of bees and how they behave allows him and Wali to handle the swarm in a safe and responsible way.
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Source: WILD TV: "The Animals We Live With"
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