We talked with Erika Thompson of Texas Bee Works about her weirdest bee removal this year and how working with bees has changed the way she eats.
I love honeybee crafts of all kinds, but typically beehive crafts look more like Winnie The Pooh beehives hanging from trees. These really look more like paper wasp nests if you think about it, and…
It’s the end of our third season using a bee shed, and the end of the first season using the ‘new and improved’ bee shed mark 2. What’s worked and what hasn’t? Why keep bees in a shed at all? A bee hive provides a secure and weatherproof container to protect the colony {{1}}. Why then keep bee hives inside a building, like the bee shed? Moving in day … Beekeeping, of necessity, involves regular inspections at 7-10 day intervals throughout the main part of the season. These inspections
There are four versions of a bee anatomy worksheet below to differentiate for different grade levels/different ability levels (I teach K-5th grade). Each version comes in black and white and in color. I recommend using the word tracing with kindergarten, cut/paste with 1st and 2nd grade, and fill in...
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Learn about the curious activity known as bees bearding. This natural activity of honey bees can be alarming to new beekeepers.
If you are inspecting your hives regularly, you can usually see the end coming. When a colony starts to fail, it can be challenging to figure out why, let alone solve the issue. So, what can a beekeeper do to help their bees? Read on to find out about some catchall techniques that might reverse …
Teachers got a challenge. They wanna help tiny kids get better at writing, but doing it fun way. Worksheets could help, but where to find the right ones? Gotta create some that are perfect for little hands to practice.We got you covered for developing pre-writing skills.
Bee Exhibit in Flag Hall. ©FAO/Matteo Sala
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I know it sounds absurd, but no matter what age your child or student is (if they are old enough to be in school and doing math), you should be using the words "equality" and "inequality" to describe numbers that are equal or not equal. One simple way of doing this is to use a pan balance. You can differentiate these activities to use with students in K-8! My students are regrouping when adding or subtracting 2 and 3-digit numbers. In order to help them understand that regrouping is not taking away or adding any numbers, but simply putting them in another place and form, I do something like this: If you counted, you'd see ten cubes on one side and a rod (made of ten connected cubes) on the other side. The arrow points to the middle because the scale is balanced! To show greater than and less than, all you have to do is have the children count out the number of cubes and / or rods (or flats if you're working with hundreds) and see which side is heavier (goes down). You can also do this with "missing number" or pre-algebra problems. Using the above picture, I would write a missing number sentence: 5 + __ = 10. Students would add cubes to the higher side (meaning that side of the scale is lighter, and thus represents a smaller number) until the balance showed both pans being equal. They would be able to find that 5+5=10. No more frustration, and no need to show students that they can use the inverse (10-5=___) to find the answer! You can try this without having a pan balance or base-ten blocks / place value blocks at home...because I have found the websites for you! This site is called the Illuminations Pan Balance and it was created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. You can start out by showing students how different shapes (instead of numbers) can have different masses. Therefore, the square is greater than / heavier than the triangle. I have used this with kindergarteners and they understand it! I used to have a worksheet that was made specifically for this site, but can't find it at the moment. Next, you can show them that they have to add to the side that weighs less to balance it. Students can reset the balance or complete different "sets" where the shapes have different masses OR you can have them try it with numbers. As you can see, we just demonstrated the commutative property of addition - the order of the addends doesn't change the sum. We created an equality! Now we've used the associative property of addition! Download some practice sheets here! This document is a pdf that includes harder problems and blank scales for students to create their own equalities. Check out my other Making Math Memorable Posts!
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At the beginning of every school year, I like to take mass baselines for all of my students so that I have a good clean idea on where they are toward meeting the goals set for them on their IEPs. Maybe they had a summer miracle or maybe they’ve regressed a little. Today I’m going […]
We share with you how to manage a hot hive, the way my family and I dealt with a beehive that became aggressive.
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The trick of attracting insects by resembling insects is a genius move by a many species of orchids. But there can be danger in such specialization. This is not the first time that Randall Munroe of xkcd made me go all verklempt over something that has no feelings. Link -via Ed Yong...
Advice on getting started with keeping honeybees by Linda Tillman of 'Linda's Bees'. Includes tips on hive location, equipment, books, and where to begin.
By stencilling my bedroom wall with paint, it now looks like wallpaper!
Many prospective beekeepers are intrigued about the idea to build a beehive from scratch. If you have the tools and skills, it is possible.
