Students study the parts of a grasshopper and compare it to close relatives, study and compare honeybee queens, drones, and workers, and study the role of the honeybee in plant pollination. Within these activities, students will:

• Develop questions on scientific topics
• Collect data for investigations using measuring instruments and technologies
• Record and store data using available technologies
• Compare observations of individual and group results
• Collect data for investigations using scientific process skills including observing, estimating, and measuring
• Identify and describe the component parts of living things and their major functions
• Categorize living organisms using a variety of observable features
• Describe simple life cycles of plants and animals and the similarities and differences in their offspring