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ERIC Number: EJ1296907
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0036-8148
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What's the Buzz? A Hands-On, Interdisciplinary, and Fun Way to Learn about Circuits, Energy, Engineering, Bee Communication, and Pollination
Moskalik, Christine
Science and Children, v58 n5 p68-73 May-Jun 2021
This article presents a series of activities that not only help learners discover the waggle dance--a behavior performed by scout bees to communicate the location of a flower patch--and its purpose but also introduce circuitry, engineering, and energy transfer using hands-on, inquiry-based strategies. These activities were conducted in a second-grade STEM enrichment setting with 20 students over approximately 90 minutes. The assessments were primarily formative, given the nature of the program. These interdisciplinary standards-aligned activities can be easily adapted to traditional elementary-level classrooms.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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