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Instructional Strategies:

Set up (5-10 minutes)
 Put out table cloths and supplies on appropriate tables.
 Explain to teacher and volunteers what you need them to do at their activity stations, cut out guides in Appen-
dix 2 for them to use.
 Have students sit on floor, in one group, to begin the program.

Introduction: (5 minutes)
 Introduce yourself! Ask the students if they know why you are visiting them today? To discuss honeybees
and the importance they play in our everyday lives.
Para discutir sobre las abejas y la importancia que desempeñan en nuestras vidas.
 Share the activities the students will get to do after learning about honeybees.
 Table 1: Bees and beekeeping
 Table 2: Honey tasting
 Table 3: Beeswax candle making
 Table 4: Bees, food, and you
 Let students know they will each have time to go to every table.
Hágales saber a los estudiantes que tendrán tiempo para ir a cada mesa

Read a story: (5-8 minutes)
 Younger students: In the Trees, Honey Bees By: Lori Mortensen
 Older students: Flight of the Honey Bee By: Raymond Huber

Pollination and Honey Activity: (15 minutes)
 Ask the students, “Why should people care about bees? They pollinate our food, they make honey, the polli-
nate cotton, they pollinate flowers that produce fruits and seeds for other animals to eat, they make beeswax,
etc.
Pregunte a los estudiantes, “¿Por que las personas deben preocuparse por las abejas?” Polinizan nuestra
comida, hacen miel, polinizan el algodo n, polinizan flores que producen frutos y semillas para que otros ani-
males las coman, hacen cera de abejas, etc.
 Ask the students, “I heard someone mention pollination. Who can tell me what pollen is? Who can tell me
what pollination is?” Pollen is a colored dust in the middle of the flower. When a bee visits a flower, her body
becomes covered in pollen. When she moves pollen from that flower to another flower, which is the same
species, the next flower is pollinated. Once a flower is pollinated, it can grow seeds, and then a “fruit.” Model
this with a large plush bee and a vase full of large (fake) sunflowers.
Pregunte a los estudiantes, “Oí que alguien menciono la polinizacio n. ¿Quie n me puede decir que es el polen?
¿Quie n puede decirme que es la polinizacio n?” El polen es un polvo colorado en medio de la flor. Cuando una
abeja visita una flor, su cuerpo queda cubierto de polen. Cuando ella mueve el polen de esa flor a otra flor, que
es la misma especie, la siguiente flor es polinizada. Una vez que se poliniza una flor, puede cultivar semillas y
luego una "fruta". Modele esto con una gran abeja de peluche y un jarro n lleno de girasoles grandes (falsos).

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