Bee Life Cycle | PBL Biomimicry Design Inspired by Nature Compatible with NGSS

Use this bee resource to help your students study and explore the fascinating world of these incredibly important insects. Inspire your students to watch nature with biomimicry glasses where the focus is on studying superpowers that bees have spent billions of years developing. The overall aim is to use nature as a stepping stone for new ideas. A great way to extend the learning of life cycles and ignite imagination and wonder. 

You'll save time by purchasing this easy-to-use introduction to Biomimicry - Bio means Life and Mimic means to imitate life and nature.

What are you waiting for? Purchase this unique, educational and engaging life cycle resource now and give your students a science activity they'll love.

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This brilliant Bee package contains:

1. Cards

2. Can you identify the different stages?

3. What is the connection between a larva and a bee?

4. What do larvae and bees eat?

5. Fun Facts

6. Metamorphosis Poem

7. Bee words - make your own dictionary

8. Ask the larva Sparkling Questions about pupae and bees

9. Larave are. . .

10. Bees are. . .

11. Life cycle

12. Plan a bee story

13. Story writing - 2 prompts - queen bees, workers and drones

14. Bears do love honey - design a trap

15. Beeswax and Flowers

16. How to throw the perfect honey party

17. Can you name the body parts?

18. When is a bee a bee? - bee, wasp or bumblebees

19. Waggle dance

20. Bee's knees - biomimicry

21. Bee's eyes - biomimicry

22. Hexagons - biomimicry

23. Assessment - reflection upon learning

Why am I qualified to write these biomimicry resources? I was a member of BEN - Biomimicry Education Network - and a curator of educational resources at BEN. I am the author of the book Biomimicry with Theo & Tuva: Nature spotting inspires wild ideas. In 2015, I completed a course in Biomimicry: A Sustainable Design Methodology at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. I took part in the Biomimicry Design Challenge in 2021.

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Number of pages - 29