👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will explain bee body parts, hive jobs, and pollination.

Vocabulary
insect, hive, worker, drone, queen, pollinate, nectar, sting

Teaching Notes

• Review insect body parts.
• Show how bees pollinate using simple diagrams.
• Compare hive jobs to classroom jobs.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

Bees are insects that live in hives and help plants grow.

• Bees have 3 body parts and 6 legs.
• A hive has jobs: queen, workers, drones.
• Bees collect nectar and pollen.
• Bees pollinate flowers so plants can grow seeds.

Vocabulary

• — animal with 3 body parts and 6 legs
• — home of many bees
• — bee that gathers food and cares for hive
• — male bee
• — bee that lays eggs
• — move pollen to help plants grow
• — sweet liquid in flowers
• — poke to protect hive

Sentences to Fill In

1. A bee is an ________.
2. Bees live in a ________.
3. The ________ lays eggs.
4. ________ bees gather nectar.
5. Bees ________ flowers.

Think & Respond Q&A

1. Why are bees important?
2. Why do flowers need bees?
3. Why should we stay calm around bees?
4. How do bees help people?
5. What would happen if bees disappeared?

Hands-On Activity

Pollination Model
Use colored powder on “flowers.” Touch with fingers to see pollen move.

Reflection

• One way bees help Earth is ________.