When I was a teacher at a Christian school, I took my class on a field trip to a bee farm. As a homeschool family, you can do the same. You can see first-hand how bee keepers acquire honey from bees.
You might wonder if this field trip is too dangerous for children. If a child is allergic to bees, I suppose it would be dangerous. But no one gets stung if you walk around calmly. Bees do not sting people unless they feel that they are being attacked.
Buying local honey can help your family to overcome allergies to pollen. This is because you are basically inoculating yourself by getting your body used to the local pollen.
This field trip is perfect for homeschool families that are studying insects. Bees are social insects, since they work together in colonies. The hexagonal shape of the honeycomb is also fascinating, since the individual hexagonal shapes fit together so perfectly.
I recommend reading books about bees and watching a few DVD’s from the library about bees before going to see a bee keeper, so that you can get the most out of your field trip.
