What do bees use to get rid of tangles? A honey-comb! The video focuses on how bees instinctively find flowers — their eyes view the world differently than ours. They also seem to be guided by electric charges because the bees have a positive charge and the flowers a negative one. This is one way bees know someone else has been to visit that flower.

Concepts

bees, mutualism, electric charge, flowers

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Research other types of mutualism

Classroom Considerations

• Lesson best fits with ecology or a study of interdependence
• Be aware that YouTube comments are open to the public and not usually appropriate for the classroom

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Includes closed captioning in Czech, English, and Spanish
• Highlights the vocabulary word mutualism 

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.6-8.4 RST.9-10.4 RST.11-12.4