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Animals and creatures that help us - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Concept: Bees are extremely important for farms and food production because they act as pollinators. Pollination is the process where bees move pollen from one flower to another, which helps plants make fruits, seeds, and vegetables. Without bees, many of the foods we eat—such as apples, berries, squash, nuts, and many other fruits and vegetables—would have much lower yields or might not grow well at all (Parlee Farms, Overview of Bee Pollination, 2021)
      - Activity: pollination maze worksheet
        
        Watch a video on how bees pollinate plants and therefore allow fruit and vegetables to grow.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaM3buQ--kM
        The learners can complete a maze worksheet where they need to draw a line connecting the bee to the flower so it can polinate it.
  - - - Watch this video before the guide dogs visit so that the learners have an idea of what a service dog does. https://youtu.be/82u_pAYhXUU
        
        Activity: Arrange for the Guides Association of South Africa to come and do a presentation with some of the dogs and explain how they help people.
        (I did arrange this in my school last year.)
- - - - Deisgn a bee-friendly water station with recycled materials. (e.g. a shallow dish with peddles or plastic bottle caps)
        
        Activity:This is a short video on how to make the water station.
        
        https://www.tiktok.com/@livekindly/video/7275054702100794667?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
      - Here is a short video on how bees drink water: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2hhoPjnFkgo?feature=share
  - - - Activity: Learners design and make a dog shelter. They can use any materials. The requirements that is that is needs to be big enough ( so we can use boxes to construct it). They need to decorate it by painting it or drawing pictures.
- - - - Bees make honey to eat during the cold months when there are no flowers. They collect a sweet liquid called nectar from flowers using their long tongues and store it in a special honey stomach. When they return to the hive, they pass the nectar to other worker bees, who chew it and spread it into the honeycomb. The bees then fan it with their wings to dry it out, and once it becomes thick and sticky, it turns into honey. They finally seal it with wax to keep it safe (National Geographic Kids, 2023).
    - - I bought raw honeycomb from a beekeeper in my area. The learners can see the wax of the honeycomb and can physically taste it.