Trish and Nancy’s class is currently completing an educational unit about bees and honey upon discovering that their students have a passion for learning about the honey bee. Truly, this is a unit driven by student interest! Trish brought in books from the library, and from these books students found ideas on making natural beeswax lip balm and other crafts, and they are now making and selling lip balm they have manufactured in class! The students have shown so much interest in this subject that staff and their students have continued reading up on bees in order to find out even more interesting facts. Trish and Nancy's students have also been decorating the hallways to bring awareness to other students about the plight of the honey bee, which is called colony collapse disorder. To help address this problem, people are urged to plant flowers and, as such, Trish and Nancy are planning on using the proceeds from the lip balm project to either plant a flower garden that attracts bees or make a donation to an urban bee hive initiative. It also turns out that the Pointe-Claire library has a rooftop bee hive, and the students will hopefully head there for a field trip this spring. Nancy was able to borrow a beekeeper suit and also a model of a beehive from local high school JRHS. With these items, Trish, Nancy, and their class have invited students from Allancroft Campus to visit their classroom to learn all about bees. Monique and Erliza’s class has stopped by to learn more about bees, and more classes will surely follow to find out what all of the BUZZ is about!
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