INTRODUCTION TO CLASS
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- Welcome!
- SLANT expectations
- SYLLABUS
- CLASS EXPECTATIONS
- Salmon Project Sneak Peak- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKR3pk7IS1M & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ffu8CFZ_ok
- Persil - "Dirt is good" Advert- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS3KoEjV6eI
- Seating chart- ABC
- Name tags
- Share an outdoor experience or memory
- Outdoor Learning Behavior & Safety Expectations (It's not recess, even though you might wish it was!)
- Poison Ivy-Lesson & walk to scout. learn identify
- Walk and tour the property- Learn the lay of the land
- Introduction to Bees and Beekeeping -Lessons and Hands-on observation of the hives
- Monarch lessons
- Goldenrod gall lesson, collection walk, and dissection
- Honey Harvest
BUSY BEES
September To Do• Provide supers for fall flow, or let bees store it in brood nest. Check colonies for American foul brood and Varroa mites. Either put empty supers above the inner cover to let bees clean them, or let bees rob from the supers in the bee yard. Then store with PDB moth crystals.
Documentary: PBS- Nova Tales From the Hive
NOVA chronicles a year in the life of a bee colony with stunning images that take viewers inside the innermost secrets of the hive. The documentary team spent a year developing special macro lenses and a bee studio to deliver the film's astonishing sequences. These include the "wedding flight" of the colony's virgin queen as it mates in mid-air with a drone; the life-and-death battle between two rival queens for the colony's throne; and the defeat and death of a thieving wasp at the entrance to the hive. The show also explores such mysteries as the famous "waggle dance" with which scout bees signal the exact direction and distance of nectar sources to the rest of the hive. A vivid picture emerges of the bee's highly organized social life, revolving around the disciplined sharing of construction tasks, the collection of nectar, and warding off enemies.
Questions to accompany video"PBS- Tales from the Hive"
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Bee Keeping for Beginners Slides and Videos (Equipment, Caste, Comb,...)
1. Learn about hive set-up
2. Bee safety (approaching hive, if a bee is near you, safe distance, watch where you step/sit outside...)
3. Drawing contest: Most realistic version of our bee hives (How many? How many supers?, etc...)
4. Discovery Education video- Bees How they Live https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/5548D99D-380C-4B42-A27D-ADAB5B5FE436
2. Bee safety (approaching hive, if a bee is near you, safe distance, watch where you step/sit outside...)
3. Drawing contest: Most realistic version of our bee hives (How many? How many supers?, etc...)
4. Discovery Education video- Bees How they Live https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/videos/5548D99D-380C-4B42-A27D-ADAB5B5FE436
Poison Ivy Lessons: ID & Safety
Slides on poison ivy & directions for ID walk https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jATUgsnXI4OmW7vYQBXL5SZ0cwVQS8EUouob7b0WJiY/edit?usp=sharing
Color Handout- poison ivy ID tips and rhymes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X7gNNHWDOlZAg3SRrNHUAPMbwrw6Bn1pmR7IvvjIYpI/edit?usp=sharing
Goldenrod Gall Lesson
1. Go on walk to collect Goldenrod galls
2. Learn about galls (and the insects that make them and their role in the environment) and dissect outside. If time allows, look for oak gulls.
Helpful links to learn more about Goldenrod gall insects:
2. Learn about galls (and the insects that make them and their role in the environment) and dissect outside. If time allows, look for oak gulls.
Helpful links to learn more about Goldenrod gall insects:
- Goldenrod Gall Fly http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/goldenrod_gall_fly.htm
- Goldenrod Gall Moth http://bugguide.net/node/view/603137
- Lesson- Bug-sicles in the Class Room:Demonstrating freeze tolerance with larvae of the Goldenrod Gall Fly! http://www.naturenorth.com/winter/gallfly/gallfly1.html