Comments on: HOW TO TEACH ABOUT HONEY BEES

By: Angelo Phillibert Atoroba

Angelo Phillibert Atoroba — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:31:29 +0000

Dear Sir/Madam
Could you kindly supply me with the Training Module of Beekeeping, Introduction to beekeeping, Importance of beekeeping and honey production, harvesting and processing. and many others if possible.

Thank you in anticipation
May Almighty God bless you

By: Pieter Jacobs

Pieter Jacobs — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 19:04:52 +0000

Fantastic material

By: Ken sikora

Ken sikora — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:36:13 +0000

Good information. Thank you! I bring a frame of capped honey and small plastic tasting spoons for the kids/adults to scoop out a spoonful of honey and wax capping to eat. They love it.
Each spoon is only used once and discarded in a bowl of water and taken home to cleanup and recycle.
Ken
Green Bay

By: Rigoberto fernando

Rigoberto fernando — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:31:29 +0000

Very interesting to keep the atTention the AUDIENCE

By: Hilary Kearney

Hilary Kearney — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 18:19:16 +0000

In reply to Nel. Thank you for this well thought out comment and additional advice.

By: Nel

Nel — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:55:07 +0000

As a retired teacher-trainer, I can endorse every technique and tip in this article. If you are ever asked to present about bees (or anything, really), this is a good guide for how to adjust your presentation to the audience (HUGELY important: you are not teaching a subject; you are not talking to please yourself, you are teaching PEOPLE – start where they are or you lose them immediately), as well as how to keep an audience engaged and focused. But do read it carefully and give serious thought to whether or not your presentation is putting these tips into practice.

I would add one thing: people love a take-away. The fun facts about bees that they can tell their friends are great; it keeps the talk alive in their minds and memories and reinforces your teaching if they go away and tell other people what they learned. But if you are hoping to inspire them to action (keeping bees, creating a more bee-friendly environment), give them something concrete and free to take home with them. For example, a list of 5 Ways You Can Bring Bees to Your Garden or 10 Things to Consider Before You Commit to Bee-keeping. Print them on colored paper (harder to lose in the mass of paper we deal with every day), and give them away at the end of your talk.

If you are talking to a school group, put together a reference kit for teachers to help them create lessons using information about bees. This can be as simple as a sheet with links to lessons people have already created and posted online or lists of books about bees and bee-keeping that they can order for the school library. If you’re really diligent, you could visit the local public library nearest the school and get a list of bee-related books there, then pass it on to the teacher so she can consider assigning some of the books for book reports. Another possibility is giving children small packets of seeds for a flower that attracts bees, and encouraging them to plant them in their own yard – some seed packets have many seeds for a small amount of money. If you do a bit of the preliminary work for them, people are more likely to build on your presentation themselves, instead of just thanking you and moving on.

When you give people something to take away and use, they feel like they ‘really’ got their money/time’s worth out of your presentation, and they are much more likely to revisit your information later, act on it, or spread it to a larger audience.

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By: the =fatbeeman

the =fatbeeman — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 00:59:21 +0000

Like what your doing we need the younger generation interested in beekeeping

By: Hilary Kearney

Hilary Kearney — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 03:51:47 +0000

In reply to Rita McCartt-Kordon.

Hi Rita, no, I did not include any photos of bee diseases in the set. I tried to give them a more general focus so they could be used to teach kids and the public about the importance. I still think they would work for a beginning beekeeping class, but they do lack some of the more beekeeping specific photos. You can read more and see whats included here: http://girlnextdoorhoney.com/product/educational-posters/

By: Rita McCartt-Kordon

Rita McCartt-Kordon — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:45:16 +0000

Are there posters for bees diseases? How can I obtain them?