The Flowers and the Bees
During this unit, third-grade students learned about the life cycle of a plant and how bees play an important role in the flower's life cycle. The students were introduced to the three different types of bees and their roles in a colony. During this unit, we collected numerous data and used it to plot different graphs to help us identify many changes happening within our plants. My students understand the symbiotic workings of a plant and a bee. They understand that one does not live without the other. They are able to make connections to the world around them seeing that we all are dependent on something to live and survive. As an assessment, students created a lap book to prove they understood how all of these things fit together. Students used their technology resources to research the information needed.
Days of joy were experienced through active learning. Students had the opportunity to see how bees pollinate through an activity that involved cheese puffs and a coloring picture of a flower. During this activity students traveled around the room pulling out cheese puffs from one another's bag. After eating each cheese puff, students had to wipe their hands on the coloring picture. Once students did this, they could see the trail of fingerprints they left on the bag. This was connected back to the pollen sacks on the bee's hind leg. The physical element to this lesson, made teaching pollination a breeze!
Where there is joy, there must be days of defeat. My day of defeat came in the life of a flower. My flowers would not stay alive. No matter how much I loved on them and talked to them, they would not live as long as I needed them too. However, there is always a Walmart that sells flowers. #problem-solving
Days of joy were experienced through active learning. Students had the opportunity to see how bees pollinate through an activity that involved cheese puffs and a coloring picture of a flower. During this activity students traveled around the room pulling out cheese puffs from one another's bag. After eating each cheese puff, students had to wipe their hands on the coloring picture. Once students did this, they could see the trail of fingerprints they left on the bag. This was connected back to the pollen sacks on the bee's hind leg. The physical element to this lesson, made teaching pollination a breeze!
Where there is joy, there must be days of defeat. My day of defeat came in the life of a flower. My flowers would not stay alive. No matter how much I loved on them and talked to them, they would not live as long as I needed them too. However, there is always a Walmart that sells flowers. #problem-solving
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