Bee Waggle Dance Game
Bee Waggle Dance Game
Introduction
Bees are amazing pollinators. Most bees are solitary, but honeybees are social insects that live in hives. If a honeybee finds
flowers that are a great source of nectar and pollen they go back to
their hive and tell the other bees. How do they do this? They do a
¡°waggle dance¡± to tell the others which direction and how far away
a delicious bed of flowers is located. Here¡¯s how the waggle dance
works:
The worker bee dances on the honeycomb. She dances in a
straight line at the angle the flowers are compared to the sun (with
the top of the hive representing the sun.) While moving in that direction, she waggles her stinger end back and forth. The more
times she waggles, the
farther away the flowers are.
She then loops back
around, waggles again,
loops the other way (making
a figure 8), waggles again,
and so on. After watching
the dance, and feeling the
vibrations with their
antennae, the other bees
can find the flowers. This
picture shows what the
dance looks like.
Bee Waggle Dance Game
The Game
Now let¡¯s try it! Shake your stingers and find some flowers!
Cut out the shape of a sun and the shape of a flower out of paper. There are stencils below if you want to color them and cut
them out!
Put the paper sun in the room to show the direction of the
sun.
Be the bee! The bee hides the paper flower anywhere in the
room.
Do the waggle dance to show adult or friend helpers where
to look for the flower. Remember to do the waggle dance based
on where the paper sun is.
Helpers watch the dance and then can start to look for
the flower.
Switch roles ¨C the helper
can be the dancing bee, and
the dancer can be the helper!
Move the sun to see how the
waggle dance changes! And
remember, the more you
waggle ¨C the farther away the
flowers is.
Bee Waggle Dance Template
Did you have fun talking through dance like a bee? Was it hard to communicate
without talking? Tell us about it and/or send us a picture of your game by
emailing us at campoffice@!
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