Activity Introduction

Quick summary: In this activity children investigate bees in the yard and learn how to be safe around bees. Younger children go out into the yard and observe bees before participating in a guided role-play around bees, collecting pollen and nectar and returning to the hive. Older children go outside to observe bees before conducting an experiment to find out what colour flowers bees like best. This activity is designed to help connect children to the wonders of the natural world through sensory and play-based learning.

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EYLF Learning Outcome

Elaborations

Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world

4. Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment

Outcome 4: Children are involved and confident learners

1. Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity

2. Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating

4. Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies, and natural and processed materials

Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators

1. Children interact verbally and non verbally with others for a range of purposes

Unit of work: Love Food? Love Seeds! – Early Learning

Resources required:

Ages 3 to 5 – 

 

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Worksheets

Teacher Worksheet

Background information

Learning goals: The aim of this activity is to get children thinking about the bees that visit their yards and what they are doing when they visit. Children begin by learning how to be safe around bees. Younger children will then go out into the yard and observe bees before participating in a guided role-play around bees, collecting pollen and nectar and returning to the hive. Older children will go outside to observe bees before conducting an experiment to find out what colour flowers bees like best. 

Content information: Bees first appeared on Earth at least 80 million years ago. The ancestors of modern bee species lived alongside the dinosaurs - a time when giant pines, cedars, tree ferns and cycads were the main plants and the air swarmed with primitive insects, including oversized dragonflies and giant butterflies. During this time, the first flowering plants (angiosperms) appeared and a more effective way of pollination was needed, other than simply relyi

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