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Choreograph a Waggle Dance!
Provided by: ClimateScience |Published on: April 27, 2021
Lesson Plans Grades 3-5, k-2
Synopsis
- With this resource, students will learn about bee communication by creating their own waggle dance and performing it with their classmates.
- The activity introduces students to pollination, the role of bees, how bees communicate to find food, and the need to protect them.
Subjects: Science, Visual and Performing Arts
Authors: ClimateScience
Region: Global
Languages: English
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Positives
- Students will enjoy dancing together and this activity will improve their communication and teamwork skills.
- The art of dance helps teach a child creativity and coordination.
Additional Prerequisites
- Teachers can review the linked sources to gain additional context before using this activity with students.
Differentiation
- The teacher may need to more directly guide any groups having difficulties creating the dance and show them an example.
- Students can brainstorm ways to protect bees and discuss what would happen if they became extinct.
- In an art class, the teacher could ask students to draw bee workers and try to represent the way they communicate in their drawing.
- Another engaging resource on this topic is the video Bee and Me.
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ClimateScience
ClimateScience inspires young talents to seek careers in fields where they contribute to climate solutions. By providing beautifully illustrated, understandable, science-based educational content for free for everyone, they are building the fundamentals for Climate Education.
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