Sager Family Farm | Classroom Lessons & Activities

Classroom Lessons & Activites

Bring learning to life! Our lessons are designed to bring field trips into the classroom, and we have adaptations for camps, scout troops, homeschool families, and more. Contact us with questions or to schedule a class.

Featured Summer Lessons & Workshops

These lessons and workshops are an excellent way to sweeten your summer!

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Lip Balm Workshop

Science, Fun

2nd Grade +

Learn the science behind making lip balm! Participants will make beeswax-based lip balm while learning about the material properties of each ingredient.

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Rolled Candle Workshop

Science, Fun

All Ages

Make and decorate bee-autiful rolled candles from beeswax sheets. We’ll introduce how bees create wax and why we use it for products like candles.

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Seed Ball Workshop

Science, Fun

All Ages

Make seed balls filled with native, drought tolerant plants that pollinators love! Older students apply math skills, measuring radius and diameter to create effective seed balls.

Lesson Topics

For each of our lessons, our honey bees come with us! Safely contained in an observation hive, of course. Bring learning to life and add a reverse field trip experience to life-cycle, pollinator, science and nutrition units.

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Big Buzz About Bees

Life Science

All Ages

This is a great introduction to bees for all ages. Learn how bees collect pollen and nectar, how beekeepers care for bees, life cycles, and the jobs of workers, queens, and drones.

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Team Bee

Life Science, SEL

3rd - 5th Grade

Bees work in a team with 60,000 of their family members! Learn the roles of each caste of bee, and how they share responsibilities in the hive.

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Hive Harvest

Life Science

All Ages

Harvest and taste fresh honey straight from the comb! Examine how bees collect nectar, and preserve it for winter, and the different products that humans harvest from the hive.

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Insect Anatomy

Life Science

1st Grade

Learn how bees use their specialized body parts to help them collect food, build their home, raise their young, and communicate with each other.

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Save the Bees

Life Science, Conservation

3rd Grade +

Learn why pollinators are so important, examine the causes of declining bee populations and come up with solutions we can implement in our communities.

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Exploration Stations

Life Science

All Ages

Our Exploration Stations are like a mobile discovery museum! Students will use each of their five senses to examine how bees see, navigate, make honey, and more!

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Pollinator Plate

Life Science, Nutrition

2nd Grade

Learn how pollinators contribute to the food on our plate. Discuss the foods that bees do (and do not) help produce to create a healthy balanced diet.

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Bee Brave

SEL, Language Arts

K - 5th Grade

By exploring the common fear of bees, we will discover what fear and anxiety feel like in our bodies, brainstorm calming techniques, and identify character traits of good beekeepers.