Summary
The SciGirls map where bees are thriving and where they aren't, turning field observations into a data visualization that makes an invisible pattern obvious.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Full episode (28 min) from SciGirls, season 2.
- How does living in a colony help bees?
- What did the map show that a list of notes would have hidden?
- What could a neighborhood plant to help pollinators?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: colony, pollinator, data, map.
Try it: Collect one week of a simple observation (birds, bugs, weather) and turn it into a bar graph. Write the pattern you see.