your destination: (objectives)
- Create a beehive with hexagons.
travel kit: (materials)
- Glue, sharpie, hexagon tracer, oil pastels, two pieces of paper, scissors.
on the path
step 1
- Do a tutorial on how to make a hexagon tracer.
step 2
- Trace the hexagons on your paper with sharpie covering the whole page.
step 3
- Color them all yellow, then go back and add black and brown to the edges to give more of a relative beehive look.
step 4
- On a separate piece of paper make your bees. Cut them out and glue them to your beehive paper.
group tour (how larger class can be involved as group projects)
- Watch a video on how bees live and maintain their hive.
extend your journey
- Talk to the students about how the bees effect the ecosystem, and how a beehive works.
learn new vocabulary
- Hexagon.
