Social Emotional Learning
A Bee’s-Eye View
Objective
Your students learned how bees pollinate flowers, why they pollinate, and what happens when they come in contact with harmful pesticides on flowers. In this activity, students will be drawing a bee pollinating a field and will be writing what it might be like if they were a bee who came in contact with pesticides while pollinating.
Materials
Discussion questions
Paper and pencils for writing and drawing
Activity Duration:
30-45 minutes
Instructions
Have a 5-10 minute discussion with your students to reflect on the pollination activities they participated in with Change is Simple. Use the questions below to guide the discussion:
• How did you feel wearing the “pesti-goggles”?
• Was it more difficult to pollinate flowers after you had “come in contact” with pesticides?
• How do you think a bee might feel when they can’t see due to pesticides?
• How might you be able to help protect the bees from pesticides?
Pass out the activity sheet to students and explain to them that they will be drawing a bee pollinating a field and writing about how they might feel as a bee coming in contact with pesticides.
Have students draw a picture of a bee pollinating a field. Students can select what bee-pollinated crops are being grown in their field!
Once students have drawn a their bee, have them write about how they would feel if they were the bee coming in contact with pesticides. Ask students what actions would be really difficult if their vision was blurred by pesticides to get them started.
Have 3 student volunteers share their “Bee’s Eye View” activity sheet with the class. They will show their peers the picture they drew and read what they wrote!
Encourage kids to bring their “Bee’s Eye View” activity home!