Instructional Video

How Bees Can See the Invisible

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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.

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CCSS: Adaptable
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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