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HOW DOES EXPLORING THE WORKING OF A BEE COLONY INSPIRE CURIOSITY?
DOES CURIOSITY INSPIRE INQUIRY QUESTIONS?
DO INQUIRY QUESTIONS INSPIRE EXPLORATION?
HONEY TASTING
When given the opportunity to taste honey from the same hive students are invited to enter a world of 'having a voice'. Each jar of honey is distictively different.
OWNERSHIP With REASONING- What honey did you prefer and why? Students discuss taste texture and personal choice.
RECOGNISING VARIABLES and ARGUMENT- Rank the honey in preference. Does anyone have an opposing opinion?
LOGIC and REASONING- Can anyone account for the differences?
THESIS- Putting forward a thesis.
ARGUMENT and ANTITHESIS - Does anyone have an opposing opinion? argument against thesis.
FACTS- Can gained knowledge alter a THESIS?
Female worker bees and the queen bee have the same genes...and any female larva has the potential to be a queen. What makes the queen different is her diet.
When the honeybee colony senses that it needs a new queen, perhaps because the queen is ailing or is preparing to swarm, the worker bees will begin the process of raising new queen bees. This process is triggered by lower levels of queen pheromone in the hive.
Do you think this shows a lack of loyalty to the queen?
How do you think the decision to create new Queen bees comes about?
Do you think all bees are aware of the pending 'requeening 'of the colony?
Nurse bees will select 10 to 20 newly hatched female larvae and begin feeding them a strict diet of royal jelly, a milky white substance that be bees secrete from the tops of their heads. The exclusive diet of royal jelly turns on the female larva's reproductive system, turning her into a queen. Royal jelly is high in protein, simple sugars, fatty acids, B vitamins, trace minerals, and antibacterial and antibiotic components.
Each queen bee develops in a special honeycomb cell called a 'queen cell' that looks somewhat like a peanut.
After the queen chews her way out of her queen cell, she has some dirty work to do...she instinctively sets out to kill her sisters....the other new queens. She will call to them by 'piping' - she calls out repeatedly with a high pitch chirp. The other new queens will pipe back and in this way they can find each other to fight to the death. Even the queens still in their queen cells will pipe back, allowing the queen the ability to sting them to death even before they have hatched........
Consider the nature of overthrowing a potential political threat, loyalties and control.
What system of rule or social practice does the bee colony resemble?
Utilitarianism Dictatorship , Democracy, Totalitarianism, Utopian, Authentic, Just.
Can murder be the right choice according to situation?
Is it only humans who have empathy?
Is ethics restricted to human thinking?
Are the workers unionised?
Is acceptance of roles assigned to you the key to survival?
Is free will being denied to the workers?
Would you support the your Queen by facing the unknown and 'swarm' with her or adopt the new Queen and remain in the hive?
Would you prefer to be the Queen bee, a Worker bee or a Drone? Give reasons for your choice.
Can choice be ethical if the maker of the choice is ill informed or ignorant of all facts?
Negatives being a Drone
Food shortage= kill a Done
No room +=kill a Drone
Mating +death
A drone is a male bee. Unlike the female worker bee, a drone has no stinger. He does not gather nectar or pollen and cannot feed without assistance from worker bees. His only role is to mate with a maiden queen in nuptial flight.
Mating occurs in flight, which accounts for drones needing better vision, which is provided by their large eyes. Should a drone succeed in mating, the first thing that happens is all of the blood in the drone's body rushes to his endophallus, which causes him to lose control over his entire body. His body falls away, leaving a portion of his endophallus attached to the queen which helps guide the next drone in the queen.
In areas with severe winters, all drones are driven out of the hive in the autumn. A colony begins to rear drones in spring and drone population reaches its peak coinciding with the swarm season in late spring and early summer. The life expectancy of a drone is about 90 days.
Positive for being a Drone
Lazy hive existence.
Daytime hanging out with other Drones.
Getting to have sex.
Living for up to 90 days if not murdered by the worker bees (girls) before hand. Worker bees live for approximately the same time ,depending on weather, food supply and misadventure. Most natural cause of death of a worker be is that their wings wear out.
Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that determines right from wrong by focusing on outcomes. It is a form of consequentialism. Utilitarianism holds that the most ethical choice is the one that will produce the greatest good for the greatest number.
A dictatorship is a form of government characterized by the rule of one person or a small group of people who have no checks and balances on their power. While portrayed to their people as benevolent, loving rulers, dictators typically come to power simply to benefit themselves.
Democracy- the belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of government based on this belief, in which power is either held by elected representatives or directly by the people themselves. politics & government. A democracy is a country in which power is held by elected representatives
Totalitarianism, form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state.
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