Float like a butterfly, think like a bee! Build a huge hive, hexagonally! Find out the reason that hexagons are the most efficient storage shape for the honeybees' honeycombs. This neat little video would be a sweet addition to your life science lesson on behavioral adaptations or insects, or to your math lesson on polygons.

Concepts

honey bees, bees, hexagons, polygons, 2-d shapes, 2-d, tessellations

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Additional Tags

honeybee, hexagon, beehive, polygon, tesselation, math

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Instructional Ideas

• Have your class view this at home as homework and answer the Think questions on paper to turn in during your geometry unit

Pros

• Fascinating content that can be used in a life science or math setting
• Website allows you to customize the review questions and add related material links to those already provided
• A memorable enrichment for Common Core State Standards in geometry

Cons

• None

Common Core

4.G.A.2 5.G.B.3 6.G.A.1