Pupils participate in a role play to show how honey bees communicate with one another. In this honey bee lesson, students learn that honey bees communicate with dance. Pupils create the honey bee environment and role play...

Learners practice graphing and other math skills to track number of honeybee colonies present in United States since 1978, discuss major crops that are dependent on insect pollinators, and examine reasons for decline of United States...

Students use dances to learn about honeybees and how they communicate. In this honeybee activity, students discuss how bees communicate. Students study diagrams of dances and practice them. Students locate special treats in bags to study...

Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. For this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students dance the Honey-Bee-Bop to communicate the location of hidden flowers.

Eighth graders identify and interpret a scientific investigation and a hypothesis through experimentation and testing a hypothesis. They identify what scientists hypothesized about the communication of stingless bees. Finally, 8th...

Seventh graders use children's literature in order to create an interesting context for the lesson. The concept of insect communication is investigated in order for students to form educated hypothesis guesses.

This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores honeybee communication and navigation. [4:45]

This interesting site explains how one goes about creating a honey bee hive for observation purposes.

Penn State University and the Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Consortium offer an excellent site on everything you need to know about bee behavior.

Lesson plan that explains why bees sting, how bee societies are organized and an activity for learners to learn how bees communicate using pheromones.