Lesson Plan of Life Cycle of Honeybee
General Science Grade IV
Students’ Learning Outcomes
· Draw and label key stages in the life cycle of a Honeybee.
Information for Teachers
· A living organism passes through a series of changes from its birth to the time it produces its next generation. This series of changes is called the life cycle of organism.· In a honey-comb, only the queen bee produces eggs. The worker bees are also females but don’t reproduce. The drones are male and reproduce with the queen. The queen bee lays eggs and each egg hatches into a larva. The worker bees feed the larva and it changes into pupa. The pupa grows into a new young one.
· Like some other bee species, honey bees are social and live in colonies numbering in the thousands. Three types of adult honey bees reside in one colony: the queen, male drones and infertile female workers. In each colony, there is only one egg-laying queen, but there are thousands of workers
Material / Resources
Pictures of egg, Chick and hen, posters / pictures of the life cycle stages of frog, butterfly, textbook
Worm up Activity
· Show the pictures of egg, chick and hen (if available) or otherwise write the names (egg, chick and hen) on the board.
· Ask students to point out the sequence of stages present in these pictures.
· Show the pictures of seed, seedling, small plant and tree (if available) and ask students to point out the sequence of stages.
· Ask, “Can you describe the stages of your life”? Guide students to compare the above mentioned stages with the stages of their own lives i.e. toddler, teenager and adult
· Discuss the term “life cycle” with the students.
Development
Activity 1
· Have a brief discussion on honeybees.
· Ask students questions like:
1. What we get from these insects?
2. Where do honeybees live?
3. Have you heard about queen bee?
· Explain that honeybees live on a wax structure called the comb or sometimes honeycomb. The comb is made up of six-sided chambers called cells.· Recall student’s knowledge of the life cycle of butterfly. Ask them to name the stages one by one. Match each stage with the corresponding stage in the life of honeybee.
· Show a picture or make simple drawings of honeybee life cycle stages for better understanding of the students.
Sum up / Conclusion
· A living organism passes through a series of changes from its birth to the time it produces its next generation. This series of changes is called the life cycle of organism.
· In the life cycle of honeybee larva changes to pupa.
Assessment
· Draw diagram on the board and ask the students to identify the mistakes in the life cycle of honeybee.
Follow up
· Ask the students to describe the characteristics of honeybee with the diagram.
