Spanish - Bees
Art Related to Bees
La vida secreta de las abejas - A 0:50 second news report from Telemundo Utah about an art installation in London that tries to help people see, hear, and feel what it would be like to be inside a beehive
Bee Activities
Las abejas que nidifican bajo tierra - A 0:24-second, wordless video of bees that make nests in the earth in the Canary Islands
Dónde VIVEN las ABEJAS y QUÉ COMEN 🐝 ¡INCREÍBLE! - A 3:03 min. video in Spanish about where different types of bees live and what they eat (including African bees, carpenter bees, honey bees, etc.)
¿Qué hacen las abejas en invierno? - A 2:46 min. video in Spanish that explains what bees do in the winter to stay warm
Syngenta LAN | El nacimiento de una colmena - Episodio 4 - A 1:47 min. animated video in Spanish that explains the various roles bees play in the hive and makes them comprehensible with "costumes"
RESPIRACIÓN DE LA ABEJA | MINIPADMINI (Yoga para niños y niñas) - A 2:15 min. cartoon video in Spanish about a bee yoga pose for deep breathing
Bee Communication (Bee Dance)
Danza de Meneos [Castellano ibérico] (VTM) - Phineas y Ferb HD - A cartoon music video of "the waggle dance" bees do. Not culturally authentic, but pedagogically useful because of the cute way it integrates scientific explanations into the cartoon in Spanish.
Vida en la colmena 🐝🐝🐝 La danza de las abejas - A super cute, 3:50 min. narrative in which Maya, the bee, is excited about the bee dance. The story introduces the problem of needing to collect double the amount of nectar, counts steps to the flowers, discusses proportions, and would be good for integrating math, problem-solving, etc., into a lesson
Bee Food
¿Qué comen las abejas? - A short text with a nice infographic (both in Spanish) that explain what bees eat
Bee Life Cycle
CICLO de VIDA de las ABEJAS 🐝 (Reinas, Obreras y Zánganos) - A 5:32 min. video that explains the life-cycle of bees, with each step labeled and accompanied by very interesting, high quality, photos and diagrams
Bee Mysteries (Texts about)
Blue Honey
Abejas producen miel azul en Oaxaca | Noticias de Oaxaca - A 1:46 min. news report about the mystery of bees that were producing blue honey in Oaxaca but only during May and June, most likely as a result of the flowers that bloom at that time
El extraño caso de la miel azul - A 1:10 min. news report from Euronews about bees that were producing blue honey in France
¿Miel azul? - A very short article in Spanish about blue honey in France
Miel verde - A 4:58 min. cell phone video in which a beekeeper shows and tells how they purposefully make green honey
Unos apicultores franceses no sabían por qué sus abejas producían miel azul: estaban comiendo M&Ms de una fábrica cercana - A short, 5-paragraph article in Spanish with main ideas bolded
Hallucinogenic Honey
Las abejas del Himalaya que producen miel alucinógena una vez al año - A 2:17 min. video about bees in the Himalayas that produce hallucinogenic honey once a year
New Bee Species in Utah
Curiosidades de la naturaleza: las hormibejas - A short, very complete article from SportPunta that describes the unique features of this newly discovered species (including how they have adapted to their environment and features like the fact that some have stripes and some have spots)
Bee Stings
Identifican nuevas especies de abejas del desierto - A short article from Radio Habana Cuba
NUEVA ESPECIE DE ABEJA DESCUBIERTA EN EL DESIERTO DE UTAH - A 2:15 min. video that consists of words and images on slides set to music about a species of bee that has adapted in unique ways to its environment
¿Por qué las abejas mueren después de picar? 🐝☠️ - An excellent, extremely comprehensible 2:52 min. video in Spanish that explains different types of bees, which ones sting, and why some die when they do
¿Por qué las ABEJAS MUEREN cuando PICAN? 🐝 | Curiosidades de Animales - A 2:44 min. explanation in Spanish that is rather clinical with very clear images of a bee with a stinger stuck inside a person's arm and the bee's intestines being pulled out when the bee leaves
¿Qué pasa cuando una abeja te pica? Descúbrelo aquí - An excellent, highly informational 0:27 second short in Spanish
Honey Production
¿Cómo hacen la MIEL las ABEJAS? 🍯🐝 (Producción + Extracción de los Panales) - A 4:49 min. video in Spanish that explains how bees make honey and how humans harvest it, with each step labeled in Spanish
¿POR QUÉ HACEN MIEL LAS ABEJAS? | CURIOSIDADES FASCINANTES PARA NIÑOS - A 2:01 min. video in Spanish
¿Sabías cómo hacen miel las abejas? - A 0:49 second, explanation in slow, measured Spanish that is subtitled one word at a time with useful diagrams
¿POR QUÉ HACEN MIEL LAS ABEJAS? | CURIOSIDADES FASCINANTES PARA NIÑOS - A 2:01 min. video, narrated in Spanish with real, high quality, video footage of bees at work in their hives
Saving the Bees
Día Mundial de las Abejas - A short article in Spanish about ways people can help save bees with an infographic about different types of bees
Threats to Bees
Las abejas ponen en jaque a los helados - A short text in Spanish with main ideas bolded that explains Haagen Dasz's interest in helping to save the bees
Las abejas se encuentran en serio peligro - A 2:10 min. news report about how bees in Chile are in danger
Cambio climático amenaza a las abejas, la biodiversidad y la alimentación. - A 1:14 min. video in Spanish that briefly mentions World Bee Day, describes various threats to bees, then spends most of the time talking about the various products bees produce that are useful to humans
Cómo afecta la radiación de los teléfonos celulares a las abejas - A 1:55 min. news report about how cell phone radiation affects bees
4 grandes amenazas para las abejas | Ciencia - A 1:33 wordless video set to music with captioned images that provide reasons why climate change, pesticides, predators, and lack of data all threaten the survival of bees
LOS INSECTOS | Vídeos Educativos para Niños - A 4:52 min. video about the characteristics of insects, illustrated with both illustrations and photos
No todo es color de rosa! 😭 Alarma de colmena en mal estado 🐝🚫👎🏻 - A 12:35 min. video in which a beekeeper observes a colony of bees that is in trouble and explains his reasoning for being concerned about them
Narrative Texts About Bees
El abejoso 🐝 🐻| Cuentos infantiles - A 5:40 min. animated video that tells the story of a bear who goes to bee school with a plan to steal the honey, only to rescue them later when another bear attacks the hive
Cuento 10: La Abejita Alba | TOTTUS - A 4:23 min. story about a little bee that collects nectar, interacts with the Queen bee, and helps her caterpillar friend. The story addresses issues such as friendship, generosity, sharing, and altruistic service as well.
La abeja haragana by Horacio Quiroga - A 15:02 min. read-aloud of the story in Spanish
Cuento - La abeja hargana by Horacio Quiroga - A beautifully illustrated 2:44 min. video of the story
Cuento: "DULCE DE ABEJA" - A 4:10 min. read aloud of a story in Spanish that tells of a little bee who gets kicked out of her hive, and how a friendly cow shares her milk with the bee to take back to the hive (which results in sweetened, condensed milk) (no words show, only the pictures)
Dulce de leche - A 0:40-second student project that summarizes the story in Spanish words and pictures
La Fábula de las Abejas Trabajadoras - A 3:54 min. animated video of the story that is kind of an allegory for union workers
Songs
Pedagogically Useful Texts (but not culturally authentic)
Phineas y Ferb canciones - Waggle Dance [Esp. Latino] - A 1:47 min. clip from the cartoon that very clearly explains the waggle dance that bees use to communicate
¿Qué pueden enseñar las abejas a los economistas sobre cómo funcionan los mercados? - An article in Spanish from BBC World News
VI UNA ABEJA - ROB RAMSDEN - Cuento infantil - A cute, 3:00 min. animated video read aloud of the story in Spanish. The story has short, simple sentences and lots of preterit verbs