The teacher can jot down the children's questions in school in a brainstorming session in which they learn a few notions:

• The methods for producing honey, today and in the past
  
• The relationship between apiculture and other agricultural activities
  
• The relationship between the bee-keeper and his bees
  
• The importance of the countryside in the production of honey
  

Following the visit to the apiary the children could also produce:

• Texts describing the bee-keeper's work, the production of honey and other beehive products, the organisation of an apiary
  
• Interview of the bee-keeper and comments
  
• Narrations including stories from the past
  

• Composition plan of a beehive
  
• Drawings of plants and flowers visited by bees
  
• Graphs concerning the apiary's activity

These activities are aimed at investigating the relationship between the environment, human activities, climate and economy. They can also be integrated with significant connections in literature.