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Published by the Bee Girl Organization
Authors: India Bolding and Sarah Red-Laird
Subject: Science
Season: Year Round
Place of Learning: Classroom
Grade Level: 3

Concept: There are four stages in a bee’s development cycle.

Objective: Students will describe and act out the life cycle of the honey bee.

Assessment: Students will be able to identify real world scenarios that hinder a bee’s life cycle.

Standards:
3-LS1-1 Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common
birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

There are four stages to a worker bee’s life cycle:

1. Egg: The queen lays all of the eggs that will eventually turn into worker bees.
2. Larva: Once the eggs hatch they are little grub-like larvae that are fed by young adult worker bees.
3. Pupa: After the larva have grown enough they pupate to change into an adult.
4. Adult: Adult bees have many jobs including nurse bees, house bees, guard bees, forager bees and scout bees.
They work to help the colony thrive.

To play the game:
 Explain the different life stages to students, connecting a hand motion to each stage.

 Egg: A bee cartoon with her hands making a circle above her head
 Larva: A bee cartoon with her hands together over her head and arms bent into a C shape
 Pupa: A bee cartoon with her arms crossed in front of her like a hug
 Adult: A bee cartoon flapping her hands like a child would when they pretend to fly.

 Every student starts out as an egg
 Two eggs play rock-paper-scissors (with the normal motions) with each other, the winner becomes a
larva while the loser remains an egg.

2. Each student must then find someone who is in their life stage (egg, larva, pupa, or adult) to play rock-paper-
scissors with again, with the winner advancing to the next life stage and the loser remaining at their current
life stage.

3. The pattern continues until the student becomes an adult bee.

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