Bugscope across the curriculum By: Mike Zuleger

Before/ real thing This picture is pretty basic, I was trying to draw a bee with 2 sets of wings closely together This is bee’s body found on bugscope I’ve learned how detailed a bee’s body is. There are many tiny hairs that I didn’t know about. If I drew another picture, I would put a lot more detail into the bee’s head, wings, body, and legs.

Honey bees make combs in their nest in order to store honey and have their young. During the winter months the bees “hibernate” in their honey, so they can live for many years and don’t get killed off every winter.

Male and Female bees Male bees, Drones, do not collect honey or have a stinger, their only purpose is to mate with the queen bee. Worker bees, young females, are the smallest bees in the colony; therefore, their life span will be very short. A worker bee’s lifespan can be only thirty-five days. The honey bee’s sting contains about 20 different substances in its venom.

A bee’s wings Its wings flap over 11,000 times per minute. In order to make honey, the worker bees bring the pollen back to other worker bees in the hive. The worker bees in the hive then fan down the pollen in order to make the honey.

Habitat Honey bees normally live in a cool habitat in the shade, in hollowed out trees, walls of homes, or lower branches of trees.

NSES Standards Content Standard E: Standards are met by– Abilities of technological design Understanding about science and technology Standards are met by– An appropriate problem for tech. design is met Students are using appropriate tools for solve the problem

Standards are met by - Bugscope is acceptable and suitable to meet the objective of learning more about bugs Students can discuss what problems they had with Bugscope and what improvement can be made

Authentic Authentic because more info can be gained by Bugscope More high power microscope Discuss the difference in microscope in your classroom to Bugscope’s microscope Below is a bee’s eye

3 Literature Sources Fuzzy bee, by Roger Priddy, we can look at this early childhood book to get an understanding why we have misconceptions of bees. The Little book of Bees, by Karl Weiss and C.H. Vergara, is a book that is written for non-scientist and gives a lot of great facts of a bee’s life, habitat, and what a bee looks like.

Literacy Sources cont. To Bee or Not to Bee: A Book for Beeings Who Feel There's More to Life Than Just Making Honey, by John Penberthy and Laurie Barrows, give an profound look of the life of a worker bee.

2 ways to apply cross-curriculum Apply it to a reading lesson. Read an in-depth description of a bee and apply it to the bugscope picture. Apply it to a mini math lesson. Because we will be using a microscope that enhances the picture x-times, make sure the students understand how enhanced the picture is going to be.

Web sites visited http://www.greensmiths.com/bees.htm http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/bees/honey/index.html