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سيتعلم الطلاب عن دورة حياة النحل.

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الهدف الثاني

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الهدف الثاني

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سيتعرف الطلاب على أهمية النحل في البيئة.

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الهدف الثالث

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سيفهم الطلاب عملية إنتاج العسل.

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الهدف الرابع

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الهدف الرابع

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سيتمكن الطلاب من التعرف على أجزاء خلية النحل.

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الهدف الخامس

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الهدف الخامس

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سيتعلم الطلاب كيفية حماية النحل والمحافظة عليه.

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السؤال الأساسي

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السؤال الأساسي

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لماذا يعتبر النحل مهمًا؟

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سيقدم المعلم شرحًا لطلاب الصف الرابع عن دورة حياة النحل، بدءًا من الملكة وحتى النحل العامل.

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Bee Life cycle explained | Bee larvae hatching | How long do bees live? | Worker bees lifetime

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ممارسة موجهة

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ممارسة موجهة

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سيتعاون الطلاب في مجموعات صغيرة لإنشاء مخطط لدورة حياة النحل باستخدام Padlet. 

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Honey bees develop in four distinct life cycle phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The total development time varies a bit among the three castes of bees, but the basic miraculous process is the same: 24 days for drones, 21 days for worker bees, and 16 days for queens.

Honey bees as eggs

The honey bee metamorphosis begins when the queen lays an egg. You should know how to spot eggs, because that is one of the most basic and important skills you need to develop as a beekeeper. It isn't an easy task, because the eggs are mighty tiny (only about 1.7 millimeters long). But finding eggs is one of the surest ways to confirm that your queen is alive and well. It's a skill you'll use just about every time you visit your hive.
The queen lays a single egg in each cell that has been cleaned and prepared by the workers to raise new brood. The cell must be spotless, or she moves on to another one.

If she chooses a standard worker-size cell, she releases a fertilized egg into the cell. That egg develops into a worker bee (female). But if she chooses a wider drone-size cell, the queen releases a nonfertilized egg. That egg develops into a drone bee (male). The workers that build the cells are the ones that regulate the ratio of female worker bees to male drone bees. They do this by building smaller cells for female worker bees, and larger cells for male drone bees.
The queen positions the egg in an upright position (standing on end) at the bottom of a cell. That's why they're so hard to see. When you look straight down into the cell, you're looking at the miniscule diameter of the egg, which is only 0.4 of a millimeter wide.

Eggs are much easier to spot on a bright sunny day. Hold the comb at a slight angle, and with the sun behind you and shining over your shoulder, illuminate the deep recesses of the cell. The eggs are translucent white, and resemble a miniature grain of rice.

Larva stage of a honey bee's life
Three days after the queen lays the egg, it hatches into a larva (the plural is larvae). Healthy larvae are snowy white and resemble small grubs curled up in the cells (see the image below). Tiny at first, the larvae grow quickly, shedding their skin five times.
These helpless little creatures have voracious appetites, consuming 1,300 meals a day. The nurse bees first feed the larvae royal jelly, and later they're weaned to a mixture of honey and pollen (sometimes referred to as bee bread). Within just five days, they are 1,570 times larger than their original size. At this time the worker bees seal the larvae in the cell with a porous capping of tan beeswax. Once sealed in, the larvae spin a cocoon around their bodies.

The bee as a pupa
The larva is now officially a pupa (the plural is pupae). Here's where things really begin to happen. Of course the transformations now taking place are hidden from sight under the wax cappings. But if you could, you'd see that this little creature is beginning to take on the familiar features of an adult bee. The eyes, legs, and wings take shape. Coloration begins with the eyes: first pink, then purple, then black. Finally, the fine hairs that cover the bee's body develop. After 12 days, the now adult bee chews her way through the wax capping to join her sisters and brothers.

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Honey bees develop in four distinct life cycle phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The total development time varies a bit among the three castes of bees, but the basic miraculous process is the same: 24 days for drones, 21 days for worker bees, and 16 days for queens.
Honey bees as eggs

The honey bee metamorphosis begins when the queen lays an egg. You should know how to spot eggs, because that is one of the most basic and important skills you need to develop as a beekeeper. It isn't an easy task, because the eggs are mighty tiny (only about 1.7 millimeters long). But finding eggs is one of the surest ways to confirm that your queen is alive and well. It's a skill you'll use just about every time you visit your hive.
The queen lays a single egg in each cell that has been cleaned and prepared by the workers to raise new brood. The cell must be spotless, or she moves on to another one.

If she chooses a standard worker-size cell, she releases a fertilized egg into the cell. That egg develops into a worker bee (female). But if she chooses a wider drone-size cell, the queen releases a nonfertilized egg. That egg develops into a drone bee (male). The workers that build the cells are the ones that regulate the ratio of female worker bees to male drone bees. They do this by building smaller cells for female worker bees, and larger cells for male drone bees.
The queen positions the egg in an upright position (standing on end) at the bottom of a cell. That's why they're so hard to see. When you look straight down into the cell, you're looking at the miniscule diameter of the egg, which is only 0.4 of a millimeter wide.

Eggs are much easier to spot on a bright sunny day. Hold the comb at a slight angle, and with the sun behind you and shining over your shoulder, illuminate the deep recesses of the cell. The eggs are translucent white, and resemble a miniature grain of rice.

Larva stage of a honey bee's life
Three days after the queen lays the egg, it hatches into a larva (the plural is larvae). Healthy larvae are snowy white and resemble small grubs curled up in the cells (see the image below). Tiny at first, the larvae grow quickly, shedding their skin five times.
These helpless little creatures have voracious appetites, consuming 1,300 meals a day. The nurse bees first feed the larvae royal jelly, and later they're weaned to a mixture of honey and pollen (sometimes referred to as bee bread). Within just five days, they are 1,570 times larger than their original size. At this time the worker bees seal the larvae in the cell with a porous capping of tan beeswax. Once sealed in, the larvae spin a cocoon around their bodies.

The bee as a pupa
The larva is now officially a pupa (the plural is pupae). Here's where things really begin to happen. Of course the transformations now taking place are hidden from sight under the wax cappings. But if you could, you'd see that this little creature is beginning to take on the familiar features of an adult bee. The eyes, legs, and wings take shape. Coloration begins with the eyes: first pink, then purple, then black. Finally, the fine hairs that cover the bee's body develop. After 12 days, the now adult bee chews her way through the wax capping to join her sisters and brothers.

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Tracking the Life Cycle of a Honey Bee - dummies

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Honey bees develop in four distinct life cycle phases: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The total development time varies a bit among the three castes of bees, but

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سيقوم كل طالب بكتابة مقال قصير عن أهمية النحل في البيئة.

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روابط لمقالات وفيديوهات إضافية حول حماية النحل.

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10 Ways to Save the Bees - The Bee Conservancy

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You can take action today and help make our world a healthier place for bees. Here are things that you can do to save our bees.

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نشاطات إضافية لمستويات متفاوتة من الفهم والتحدي لكل طالب.

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This fantastic Label a Bee Differentiated Activity contains three ability levels of the same activity sheet where KS1 children label parts of a honey bee. The sheets contain the terms head, wing, leg, thorax, abdomen and antennae, which are useful to learn not just when learning about bees, but many other insects too.

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التقييم التكويني

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ملاحظة المناقشات الصفية ومراجعة الأعمال الفردية.

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التقييم النهائي

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اختبار قصير لقياس مدى فهم الطلاب للمحتوى المعروض.

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نقاش جماعي يلخص معلومات النحل وما تعلمه الطلاب.

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Group Discussion Topics for 2023 -2024 | Fully Explained Topics for MBA and Government Exams

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بطاقة الخروج

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يكتب كل طالب شيئًا جديدًا تعلمه عن النحل.

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Use this technique to show you what students are thinking and what they have learned at the end of a lesson. Before students leave (for recess, lunch, the end of the day, their next class, or are transitioning to another subject area), they have to hand you a "ticket" filled out with an answer to a question, a solution to a problem, or a response to what they've learned.

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أوراق عمل إضافية للتمرن على ما تعلمه الطلاب خلال الدرس.

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These cute bees will create a positive buzz about learning! Mini-books, reading response passages, and honey bee printable worksheets enhance comprehension and language arts skills. Number puzzles and practice pages reinforce a range of math skills. Plus there are lots of art activities, awards, and incentives.

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Browse Scholastic bee-themed printables, including poems, mini-books, math and word study activities, worksheets, lesson plans, clip art, and more.

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مشروع بحثي صغير عن أنواع النحل المختلفة.

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The first private initiative in the world that supports new technologies and scientific study to improve the health of bees and other pollinators.

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ألعاب تعليمية

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ألعاب تعليمية

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روابط لألعاب تعليمية على الإنترنت تتعلق بالنحل.

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Life as a Honeybee Game

Change your classroom and children in to a colony of bees. Select a queen bee and have her wear a crown and sit on a chair in the middle of the classroom. Select one drone to sit with the queen. The rest of the children are the workers and baby bees. The workers wear aprons. Some of the workers may feed the queen, drone, and the babies honey cereal. Other workers may pack pollen cells (use blocks), clean the hive, stand guard, or collect pollen and nectar.

Bee Dances

Field bees tell other field bees where to find nectar-rich flowers by dancing on the honeycomb. You can make your own dance steps by making multiple copies of the children's footprints and arrows. Laminate these copies and tape them to the floor in the following patterns:

The Circular Dance
The circular dance says, "Flowers are close to the hive. If you fly in ever bigger circles around the hive, you will find the flowers."

The Wag-Tail Dance
The wag-tail dance says, "Let me show you where the flowers are located relative to the sun." The bee dances a half circle in one direction, then turns and dances in a straight line while wagging her tail. She then dances another half circle in the other direction. The direction of the tail-wagging dance shows the other bees the location of the flowers in relation to the sun. The number of waggles shows how far from the hive the flowers are located.

Beehive Game

Have the children stand and hold the edge of a large sheet. Select five children to hide under the sheet. They will be the bees in the hive. The children holding the sheet sing the song Five Busy Bees. While they are singing, the five bees come buzzing out of the hive. Play again until all children have a chance to be a bee if they would like.

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