1. 2nd Grade Amazing Earth February
Life Cycle & Honeybees
Presentation should take about 15 minutes to allow ample time for the activities.
Keep an eye on the clock as the kids love the hands-on activities.
Ask students to sit on the carpet so the activity can be set up at their desks.
You may have to limit questions or the number of students who can answer a question if time runs short.
Ask helpers to:
familiarize themselves with the activity and its goal
set up during the presentation
decide what station/role they are covering
rotate stations about every 5-7 minutes as time allows
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2nd Grade Amazing Earth
February

2. What is a life cycle?
Baby
Adult
Child
A series of changes or stages that happen to all living things.
What does our life cycle look like?
ASK: What is a life cycle?
CLICK for the answer after student responses.
ASK: What is the first stage for humans in our life cycle? Ask them to list the next stages of the life cycle.
CLICK as they say each stage.
Teenager

3. Frog life cycle
SAY:
Life cycles are different depending on what species you are.
Amphibians like frogs, toads, salamanders and newts are cold blooded.
They live the first part of their lives in the water and the last part on the land. 

4. Bird life cycle
Birds go from the egg, to the chick, to the adult in just 3 months.

5. Bee life cycle
Insects go from the egg, to the larva, to the pupa, to the adult.
Bee eggs are protected inside the beehive.

6. Why are bees important?
Bees are responsible for pollinating about 95 different types of crops (apples, blueberries, cucumbers, oranges, almonds, etc.).
About 80% of insect crop pollination is from bees.
Bees are a keystone species. What do you think that means?
Keystone species: A species so important that an ecosystem would not survive without it.
Without bees to pollinate flowers, all kinds of plants would not be able to reproduce.
Our crops and food supply would be affected. Important message … We need bees!!!

7. Honeybee colonies Honeybees live in colonies.
Three types of bees with different jobs
Workers
Look for food
Build and protect the hive
Clean and move air by beating their wings
All female and the only bees who fly outside the hive
Drones
All male
Mate with the queen
Queen
Runs the hive
Lays eggs

8. How do bees’ eyes work? Bees (and insects) have compound eyes
Human Bee
Bees (and insects) have compound eyes
Hundreds of single eyes arranged next to each other.
Each single eye can look in a different direction.
Bees see colors in green, blue, and ultraviolet light.
Click for interactive images
CLICK this link to show what an image looks like through a human eye and through a bee eye.
Scroll down to find 6 images.
Move the mouse around the full image on the left to see what the image looks like for a bee on the right.
If the website does not automatically project, select Function and F8 together and then select Duplicate.

9. How do bees make honey? Click for Video This is a 3 min video.
If the video does not automatically project, select Function and F8 together and then select Duplicate.

10. Honeybee activities Today we are Scientists studying bees!
We will break into 4 groups and rotate through 4 stations:
1) Microscope Station
2) “Be a Bee”
3) Honey & Bee Life Cycle
4) “Buzz about Bees” Word Search
Updated 1/18/19