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Plant Transport
Watch the following three part video on Plant Transport: xylem and phloem. Take notes using the Cornell Method. submit.
Pollinators in Peril
Part One: Answer the following questions while watching the video segment, “Colony Collapse Disorder.”
- What is the name given to the disappearance of a large group of bees at one time?
- List four possible reasons for the disappearance of the world’s bees:
- What are the effects of colony collapse disorder?
- Why do many farmers need bees? Use specific information from the video segment to explain your answer.
Part Two: Answer the following questions in complete sentences while watching the video segment “Bees’ Disappearance: What’s the Impact?”
- What caused the elimination of the bees in the South Sichuan Province?
- After the loss of the bees, how did pear growers get the trees to produce fruit?
- Can farmers in the Canada use the method discussed in the last question on their farms? Why or why not?
- How could this loss of bees affect the Canada?
Part Three: Go to PBS Nature and read the article ‘Impact of CCD on US Agriculture’.
Complete a 3, 2, 1 on the article…
3 things you learned, 2 things that were intriguing/interesting and 1 rich question you are left with.
Final Thoughts: In the comment section below, personally reflect on what you used to know about pollination and bees and what you currently understand. Do you have concerns, what supports would you suggest to alleviate these concerns? What are ‘our’ next steps?
It must be a good paragraph to explain (3 ideas).
Videos and Article
Please veiw the following videos to complete the ‘Pollinators in Peril’ assignment.
Videos:
- https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/student/code/apple79480/
- https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/student/code/gecko95111/
Article:
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after watching the 2 videos and reading that article. i realized that with out bees it would be a lot harder for us to produce food. i think that if the bees are something the we rely on then we should stop spraying chemicals in the fields or on the flowers that the bees would be pollinating because once the bees are gone they are gone and we will have to do their jobs.
i used to think that the bee population was alot higher. it is not really put out there how big of an issue this actually is. without the bees, our world wold be drastically changed. alot of the fruits and vegetables would be permanently wiped out, unless poeple were hired to hand pollinate. i think that we as a community should be taking steps to ensure that this does not happen. we should be using less pesticides and trying to sustain the ecosystem as it is, instead of clearcutting forests, we should be leaving large areas of the wild untouched and leave it as a sustainable enviroemnt because thats how it is already.
I didn’t know that bees pollinated things we eat like broccoli etc, But the fact that bees are going extinct and dying off like they did in that place in china, we should stop using harmful fertilizers and stop disrupting their habitat so they can live on so we do not have to hand pollinate like they do in china
Personally I didn’t learn a while lot from these articles and videos because this is something that the entire world has been talking about for many years, because of this I already knew a lot of the basics like what it would impact if bees disappeared and how the economy would be affected. My understanding now after doing this research is a little more broadened about specifics like why might the bees be disappearing. My concerns are that if/when all the bees disappear we wont have the same luxuries with these products like we do now. There will be very less crops, which will make them more expensive and lower class families won’t be able to have them as part of their diets as much or at all. I think to alleviate the concerns that I have we need to do our part as humans to save the bees. Some of the potential reasons for the disappearance of the worlds bees are out of our control, but other things such as industrialization and human caused destruction of habitats needs to stop.
after watching these videos it has just seemed to review what i have already known about how the bees are important to and for us. they pollenate so much for us and provide us with s much more than just honey. as a society i think we should be trying harder and start doing more to help them from becoming extinct. this means not spraying so many pesticides on our crops which kill them. without the bees we wont have as many resources as we do now and we will have to hand pollinate flowers. hand pollenating will take lots of people and cost so much more money for Canada.
i used to know that bees just collect nectar and make honey a pollinate but i didn’t fully understand how they actually pollinated until now, i now know that they carry the pollen from male cones to female cones. my main concern is how we as humans are going to function without all the help and pollination tactics that the bee’s provide us with, us as humans should really start thinking about the future and what could happen if the bee’s completely die off, we should start bettering the planet and the environment that the bee’s live in, we shouldn’t be destroying their habitats left right and center. our next steps should be helping the environment grow and stabilize and stop taking away the natural habitats and we should be taking care of the environments like cleaning up all the littering or not litter at all plain and simple.
Personally I’ve never liked bees, they’ve always freaked me out. I got stung by one the other day while I was driving. After reading the article and watching the videos I’ve learned how important they are to our agriculture, and farms. They help with plant reproduction and without them the plant population dies down. I never even thought of the idea of transporting bees like they do in the South Sichuan province. And having to hand pollinate seems like so much work because he had to individually wrap every plant and then scrub the plants for pollen and gently paint the plants with it afterward and for all his fruits and veggies. Our next steps could be to keep more bees hives like the boxed ones so that they always have somewhere to go. Because wild bee hives often get knocked down or taken down if they’re in a public area. WE could also cut down the usage of pesticides to keep more bees living healthy.
Before, I didn’t care about bees. Bees were “bad”, they would sting people and then die. That didn’t make any sense to me. In the past few years I started to hear more about the importance of bees. I personally knew the basics that we got taught when we were young, such as bees make honey and they like flowers. I didn’t realize how big of an impact it would make if they disappeared. It would affect agriculture, horticulture, and the economy. It is smart that they have thought about using a different kind of bee to pollinate (bumblebee) but will it be as effective as a honey bee? Human pollinate will not workout in the long run.
I have always liked bees because they have been seen as harmless towards me, however I didn’t realize how important they were to our agriculture and the videos and article made me really understand that. I think are farmers don’t need to use so much pesticides because that is a factor on the killing of bees. I think are next steps are protecting our bees and not having the as exposed and venerable.