Why Are Honeycomb Cells Hexagonal?
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    • A honeybee on a honeycomb with a green background
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      Subject Math — Measurement and Data • Science — Life Science
      Grade Level Grades 3-5
      Resource Type Activity
      Standards Alignment
      Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards
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      About This Lesson

      Honeybees have evolved over time to skillfully build hexagonal honeycomb cells. Why might a hexagon be a suitable shape for storing honey? Could other shapes, such as circles, triangles, or squares, work just as well?

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      Cell-Volume-Investigation-Templates.pdf

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      CER-Worksheet-1.docx

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      Exploring-Surface-Area-and-Volume-of-Cell-Shapes.pdf

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      Macro-and-Micro-Observations-of-Honeycombs-1.docx

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      Standards

      Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
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      Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.
      Read More About CCSS.Math.Content.4.MD.A.2
      Measure volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, and improvised units.
      Read More About CCSS.Math.Content.5.MD.C.4
      Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.
      Read More About CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.b
      Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
      Read More About CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.D.8
      Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.
      Read More About CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.d

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