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Bees and pollination
Flowers feed bees, and bees help flowers make seeds. Find out how pollination works, how different bees carry pollen, how honeybees make honey and tell each other where food is, and why pollinators matter for our food. Three ages, each with a text, an experiment, a game, a quiz, a printable worksheet and a teacher sheet.
Ages 6–7Busy bees and flowersBees and flowers help each other. Find out what a bee takes from a flower, how it carries yellow pollen from flower to flower, and be a bee yourself.Ages 10–11Pollination and the lives of beesHow pollination works, how bumblebees and solitary bees carry pollen, how a honeybee colony is organised, how honey is made, and a fair test of which 'bee body' carries the most pollen.Ages 15–16Pollination, colonies and the waggle dancePollination as plant reproduction, how a honeybee colony shares its work, the chemistry of turning nectar into honey, decoding the waggle dance with a calibration graph, and the uncertain numbers behind pollinator value.