What is happening to the bees?

One of the criteria for science is Reflecting on the impacts of science. For our classification unit we will reflect upon a problem humans have possibly cause for bees. Plants rely on bees to pollinate them so they can continue to grow generation after generation. Your task is to create a blog post about Colony collapse disorder or CCD. We will discuss this in class and I will help you set up the blogs. You will be responsible for writing the blog post. It can be on a new blog or on an existing blog.  Here is an description of the task.

Introduction: CCD (Colony collapse disorder) is a fairly new term. Define the term, and explain ways in which science is being used to solve this problem and the impacts that this is having on the wider world. You can also discuss ways in which technology and growth has caused this problem.

Goal: Write an essay discussing how science is applied to address CCD.

Content (also see Criteria D below):

-Describe how science is used to give solutions to deal with CCD.

-Include the strengths and limitations of the solutions.

-Describe how the solution interacts with (how it affects or is affected by) one factor

 (political, economical, social, cultural, environmental or ethical.

Due date:

Upload to blog and share link with m by Friday 10  October.

Essay instructions and hints:

-You are allowed to design your post as you like. 

-You are allowed to choose the length of your paragraphs. Remember that it is often easier for the reader if the

 paragraphs are not too long (or too short…).

-Include statistics, examples etc if you think that will increase the understanding for the reader.

-Use correct scientific language when needed.

-Document your sources using the MLA-format (in-text citation is not needed). Use http://www.easybib.com for help with this. 

Don't confuse bees with wasps. They share a lot of characteristics. In fact they are in the same kingdom, phylum, class and order.