Abstract
Bees play a key role for humans, since crops pollination relies heavily on them. However, bees’ population is diminishing dramatically. Therefore, conservation actions are needed to protect them, including educational ones. Childhood Education is a crucial period to learn and strengthen values about nature and the environment. In fact, it is believed that early exposure to scientific explanations on natural phenomena and on different living species can lead children to value and respect more the environment. The aim of this paper is to study, through the analysis of drawings, whether young children establish the relationship between bees and plants, the basis of the pollination. 47 five and six-year-old-children took part in the study. Results showed that children begin to establish relationships between bees and plants in early childhood, which is a valuable starting point to work with them through educational programs on the role of bees in pollination and on the importance of bees’ conservation.
Highlights
Bees play a key role for humans because crops pollination relies heavily on them and they are needed to feed global human population [1,2]
All the children were in their last year of childhood education when the study was carried out
The procedure used to carry out the investigation was based on individual sessions with the subjects of the sample studied [12]
Summary
Bees play a key role for humans because crops pollination relies heavily on them and they are needed to feed global human population [1,2]. Bees’ population is diminishing dramatically worldwide, or in other words, their populations are in global decline [3]. This entails a huge risk both, for global food sovereignty and for ecosystems’ health, on which our well-being depends. Conservation actions are needed to protect bees, including educational ones. Childhood Education is a crucial period to learn about nature and the environment [4,5]. In the field of science education, it is believed that early exposure to scientific explanations on natural phenomena and on different living species can positively affect children understanding of the environment, as well as children success to understand subsequent scientific concepts. It can lead children to value and respect more the environment [6]
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