What Are The Threats?

Bees pollinate at least a third of everything we eat and play a vital role in sustaining our ecosystems, therefore they need to be valued and protected. This lesson uses the jigsaw classroom method to facilitate student inquiry into the threats faced by bees. Students become experts in one threat faced by bees by reading information, then work with their group to make sense of what they have read. They present what they have learned to their peers. Students will apply their new understanding to create an Effects Wheel to explore the flow-on effects of threats to bee populations.