MiniPage Teacher's Guide

MiniPage Teacher's Guide
MiniPage activities meet many state and national educational standards. This week's standards: Students understand the characteristics and life cycles of organisms. (Science: Life Science) Students understand the interactions of animals and their environments. (Science: Life Science)
Activities:
1. Divide a piece of paper into six blocks. In the blocks, draw pictures of the different jobs a worker honeybee does from ages 1 to 3 days through 21 days.
2. Which bees do the following: (a) guard the entrance to the hive, (b) depend on other bees for food, and (c) lay many eggs?
3. Collect comic strip characters of different ages. Then paste them on a piece of paper from the youngest to the oldest to show how humans develop from children to adults.
4. Have you ever heard the expression, "Busy as a bee"? Find a newspaper story about someone who is very busy at some job or activity. Write a paragraph explaining how that person is "as busy as a bee."
5. Use resource books and the Internet to learn more about honey. Use these questions to guide your research: What happens to honey after it is collected by a beekeeper? How are different kinds of honey made? In what food products is honey used? How is honey used in non-food products?