Bees Go Out

 

Bees Go Out PDF Black and White(line drawings, 4 pages to a sheet)

Bees Go Out PDF Color (colored-in drawings, 1 page to a sheet)

Sight Words: they, go, to

Why do honeybees go out? They go out to gather food for their hive. Honeybees are social (not all bees are). That means they work together to build the hive, gather food (nectar and pollen), and raise new honeybees. To gather nectar, the bees just sip it out of the center of a flower. They carry the nectar in a special stomach called a crop. To gather pollen, they brush their fuzzy bodies across the stamens of flowers. Then they comb the pollen off their fuzzy bodies and pack it into their pollen baskets, bowl shaped dimples in their back legs. You can see the pollen basket fill up from page to page in this booklet.
       
Why do flowers make nectar and pollen? The nectar is a reward for bees for carrying pollen to other similar flowers. That is how flowers make seeds. They need the bees and other insects to carry the pollen for them. Flowers make lots of pollen so there is plenty for the bees and for the other flowers.

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NGSS Science Standard Learn more about the NGSS Science Standards

• DCI: K-LS1-1 Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. - The honeybees need flowers to survive and the flowers need the bees to survive.
• CCC: Patterns in the natural and human designed world can be observed and used as evidence.
• SEP: Use observations (firsthand or from media) to describe patterns in the natural world in order to answer scientific questions.