Teaching Bees

Bees are in trouble, and so are we. I learned one of the major theories about the bee die-off from my first grader N., a budding science buff. He has his own lab at home, no kidding. N. says that cell phone waves may be a culprit.  Read about different theories here: ABC News Article. The comments are pretty interesting too.

My kids were great at pollinating our classroom flowers with dead bees glued to a stick. We saw the pollen collected in the hairs on the backs of the bees. Good thing they are so brilliant, we will need them to solve our problems.