Keen to teach future generations about bees and beekeeping, and evolving from our successful beekeeping presentations to schools, we have developed an educational package comprising activity book and DVD for primary school teachers and parents.
 
Aimed at Key Stage 1 pupils, but suitable for all ages in the primary sector, this useful resource explains in simple and engaging language the importance of the Honey Bee. This 60 page activity book covers many KS1 curriculum areas including maths, science, creative English and vocabulary, art and craft, drama and music, and cooking with honey.
 
The bilingual DVD produced by Gilly Films is divided into 10 clear sections that can be viewed in either Welsh or English:
 
1. A general introduction
2. Where do bees live
3. The bee family – worker bees, Queen bee, drone bees
4. The life cycle
5. Jobs of worker bees
6. Bees and flowers
7. The waggle dance
8. Honey extraction
9. The beekeeper
10. Bees are important.
 
Work Sheets Content:
 
Science
Labelling parts of the bee
What plants need to grow
How does a seed grow?
Identifying plant parts
The seed cycle
Seed dispersal
Cross section of a flower
Fruit identification and colouring in
Vegetable identification and colouring in
Cross section of a plant
 
Numeracy
Counting up to 5
Counting up to 10
Skip counting in fives
Skip counting in tens
More or less
Mathematical shapes
Shapes and their properties
Counting up to 50
Counting in tens and adding units
Multiplication
Counting in tens and addition
Adding different numbers
Right and left, ordering and placing
Subtraction
Division, fractions and sharing numbers
Weight and mass
Fractions
Division
Capacity and volume
Telling the time-hours
Telling the time-minutes
Writing the time
Co-ordinates
 
Technology
Making a bee mask
Cooking with honey
 
P.E.
Flowers of the forest game
'The queen bee's coming!' game
 
Literacy
A shape poem
Imagine you are a bee  write a story
Learn a bee poem
Bee word search
Really hard bee word search
Acrostic poem

Drama and music
Four role play scenarios and suggested music accompaniment 
 
Art and craft
Shapes and colouring in the bee garden
Bee maze
Colouring in picture
 
Welsh language worksheets are available as a free digital download when purchasing this activity pack. Please let us know when you place your order if you would like these.
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The project has been funded by the Welsh Menter a Busnes company and the Co-operative project Plan Bee. It  has been distributed free to 135 schools across four counties in North Wales which took part in the Plan Bee Project in Denbighshire, Conwy, Gwynned and Flintshire.