Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand the role of bees and other insects in the pollination and fertilization of flowers.
• Discover how bees communicate the location of a nectar source through a waggle dance.

Activities

1. Discover the role played by insects in pollination and play a quiz game to reinforce vocabulary and concepts (Yrs3&4).
2. Learn to do a Waggle Dance and know this is how bees communicate with other bees (Yrs3&4).
3. Create bee puppets in pairs and use them to be wildlife presenters by writing an explanatory commentary (Yrs3&4 but with higher expectation of Yr4 in terms of leadership and outcome).
4. Play a Waggle Dance game to communicate the location of a target ‘flower’ (Yrs3&4).

Investigation - analysing secondary sources, observation
Discover the role of bees and other creatures in pollinating flowers whilst collecting nectar. Make a honey dip/ dressing. Learn how pollination takes place. Make model bees.
Year 3 - Sequence the events of pollination.
Year 4 - Write the sequence of events that lead to pollination.

Vocabulary
Bee, pollen, nectar, waggle dance, honey, hive, pollination, fertilization, attract, transfer, stamen, style