 Overview:
In July of 2007, eighteen teachers from Michigan were given the opportunity, through a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, to take a three-credit hour intensive graduate course (EST643 from Oakland University) about honey bees and their care. The course covered how to be good beekeepers, EPI-PEN certification training, safety procedures, hive observations, and hive management. This grant also provided a hive and honey bees to be installed at their respective schools in Spring 2008, and four student-sized bee suits for each of the eighteen teacher participants. During the 2007-8 academic year, the teacher participants integrated honey bee biology and the knowledge and art of beekeeping into their curriculum.
Curricular Units:
Go to the Projects Page for a list of teacher participants and the curriculum units that they submitted on completion of the course.
And a few more project links...
View a map of project hive locations here.
A photo album of pictures taken by the paricipants can be found here. And a new album of Michigan science teachers here.
Planning a visit to the apiary guidelines.
Honey Bee Sting Statistics in Educational Settings Spreadsheet .
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