Beekeeping can be a lifetime hobby for lifelong learners. The 4-H Beekeeping project manuals are not activity-based; rather they are a guide to help young people learn while working with a facilitator. This 3-part curriculum series takes youth from setting up a hive to honey production to growing the colony. These are free downloads from Shop4-H.

Audience: Grades 3-12

• Learning about Bees, Level 1—This level introduces bees and beekeeping and helps prepare youth to set up their own hive. (Grades 3-5)
• Working with Honey Bees, Level 2—This level helps youth as they acquire a colony and learn how to care for their beehive throughout the year. It also introduces basic beekeeping operations, resulting in the production of extracted, chunk, or cut comb honey. (Grades 6-8)
• Advanced Beekeeping, Level 3—Level 3 includes more detail and introduces topics such as increasing the number of your honey bee colonies, increasing honey production, producing special kinds of honey, managing disease, and more about bee societies. (Grades 9-12)
• Beekeeping Curriculum: Facilitator’s Guide—Find supports and guidance for the facilitator to encourage youth to learn in this project.