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Cay Gibson
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I thought it'd be cool to share our unschooling science experiments, studies, and labs here with everyone. You know, the awesome opportunities that come along and "sting you" when you least expect them. 
Here's what we did today for unschooling science  : Busy Bees in the Beehive
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Hey Cay, don't forget to read The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco -- that got us off on a bee trail and my BIL (who happened to have hives at the time) sent the kids a "story" about bees at Fickle Creek Farm ... if you want it, I can email it to you ....
We mostly unschool science, especially when dh is home from teaching "real school" ... whenever we go out -- especially road trips and camping -- Rick teaches them enough science for a few years! But then he has a PhD (from LSU of course ) in Biological Science while I have a BA in Journalism and MBA in Marketing!
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This is terrific! My sons keep hives (you can check out our blog on the bear situation). We ate all our honey raw this year and there are LOTS of beneficial properties to raw honey:) ---and my kids preferred it raw!
Have fun!
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This is so fun, I wish we would find a natural hive , we need Bees, I heard the honey bee population is really suffering due to radiation from cell phones  And what did Einstein say???? Something like we (mankind) will live for only 2 years after we do in the bees. WOW that is a cheerful note to your fun day!! Nothing like being a wet blanket, or should I say keeping with the theme an Eyeore
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I have never taught science formally. We live near a lake (Minnesota- EVERYONE lives near a lake!) and have a swamp outback. We garden and off and on have had various animals (goats, horse, chickens, etc.) We have weather and seasons.
I was quite amazed many years back when their annual standradized test included science and they all did quite well.
Oh yeah, we've also had babies- LOTS of medical science there!
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Well our unschooling science this past week included experiencing then studying microbursts, watching the ISS & Space Shuttle fly over several nights (got a look at Jupiter and its moons from an amateur astronomer with a telescope one night also), and identifying the strange bug found in the basement to add to our insect taxonomy chart.
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Mary M and Cay - lovely ideas! 
Our unschooling Science has been all about the tomatosphere project - we just submitted our results. And we've dried tomatoes, done tomato and space research and kept observations and predictions.
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Cay Gibson wrote:
| I thought it'd be cool to share our unschooling science experiments, studies, and labs here with everyone. You know, the awesome opportunities that come along and "sting you" when you least expect them. |
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I'm glad this study didn't "sting" us when we embarked upon it!
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That hive must have been fascinating! What a neat opportunity!
Here is our most recent science unschooling:tidepooling
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chicken lady wrote:
| I heard the honey bee population is really suffering due to radiation from cell phones And what did Einstein say???? Something like we (mankind) will live for only 2 years after we do in the bees. |
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Molly,
I heard that commentary by Paul Harvey. I love Paul Harvey. 
I believe Eistein said we'd only last 3 years without bees. It problem is that the signals from cell phones and cell towers are confusing the bees' sense of direction (so to speak).
I harped about that report to my dh. That's why I put that disclaimer at the end of my blog post:
[Disclaimer: To all bee enthusiast who are horrified that we may have taken out a colony of bees that benefit our communities and our gardens and our natural existence at large, let me assure you that the hive is still alive and well. Or, at least we think it is. Some of the bees are still swarming around the shop and, as far as we know, the queen bee is still there. The worker bees are huddled in protective tribes around her. We have tried finding a professional bee removal person with little success. We have an old business card for one...just one...bee remover and have not reached him yet. One day the shop will need to be torn down and, now that our science experiment has been explored, studied, and duly recorded, we will turn over the hive safely as soon as we can. Thank you for your concern. I share your sentiments.>
Continuing our study, what's happening here?
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Keep the updates coming! I am hooked!
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Cay,
We had our own bee experience when a nest formed under our front window about 2 feet from our front door. We discovered it the afternoon I was about to have a homeschool support meeting at my house.. so we had to put up signs and divert our guests to my back door!
We learned so much just going through the process of understanding how it formed, finding someone to remove it, what happened to the bees who were away from the hive when it was removed, options to save the hive, etc.
You could HEAR the buzz when you put your ear to the wall on the inside of the living room... and we got a front row seat watching the bee guy, all suited up, remove it and hold up the dripping with honey combs!
Great learning.. I never knew so much about bees.
Those unplanned things are often the ones we learn the most from! Then there was the time a sick raccon wandered into our front yard.. another story.. lol
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Cay Gibson wrote:
I believe Eistein said we'd only last 3 years without bees. It problem is that the signals from cell phones and cell towers are confusing the bees' sense of direction (so to speak).
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I'm not contradicting this, although radio signals have been around for a lot of years and never bothered the bees, so what's different about cell signals?
But, what is killing off the bees is a parasite called the varroa mite, which has become resistant to pesticides that are safe for the bees.
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