>Kenn Tuckey, Edmonton, Alberta wrote, >Young chidren have a very short attention span. To overcome this I have used >the following with them. When they start to get restless I would show them a >complete frame - either with foundation or drawn out. Then, with the children >in small groups, I would pass out new frame parts to each group. Then I would >ask each group to put the parts together the same way that I would in my shop. I haven't much experience :)(either as a beekeeper or as a 'demo person') but...when I showed my son's first and second grade class my 'girls' I handed out little pieces of beeswax to hang onto and smell and feel while I talked. I also asked them to do a taste test (pepsi challenge move over!) between 2 different kinds of honey (late season and early season)(done with those little saltine crackers)when they went back to their classroom (worked into their math class).And I talked a little about why the flavour was so different. It's been months but they still talk to me about my bees when I show up to pick my son up. It helped to that one of the boys was allergic and brought along his epi-pen and I had my epi-pen there too. The scary part was talked about pretty openly, while a bee investigated the honey on my ungloved hands.(no-one screamed or ran away :)!)( she for her part grinned at them and showed them how beautiful she was. whatta bee!) Oh and I gave them little tiny bits of wax I had melted into little tiny decorative muffin tins for them to keep.(looked like little blossoms) In Canada our national beekeeping council have just produced a new teachers packet (in french & another in english) to be used for in classroom instruction, but I only got it after the field trip. It looks very good. hope this helps! nancy. P.S. I really love that frame assembly 'race' idea! thanks!