Kindergarteners learn about the business of honeybees

Marie Curie kindergarteners recently got a lesson on honeybees from the Scotia-Glenville Children's Museum.

The lesson was titled "Honeybee Business," and kindergarteners learned that bees are engineers and that they have different jobs. For example, the worker bees are called drones and are male, while the queen bee is the most important bee in the hive and she lives longer than the others. The bees work together to build the beehive and the honeycomb inside.

The students were allowed to try some honey and then they were able to construct their own honeybees and honeycomb.

This program tied in exceptionally well with our engineering theme and helped students learn more about bees and how they are really engineers.

We look forward to more programs like this in the future!

To view a photo gallery of the lesson, click here.