'‘Wasps make honey: true or false?’ This was simple, I thought. But an adult member of our group knew of a Mexican wasp that does make honey...' Photo: by Jocelyn Morales on Unsplash
Thought for the week: Jenny Webb’s adaptive learning
‘This was simple, I thought.’
The topic of our Children’s Meeting was ‘Food’. How could I approach this in a Quakerly way, while being accessible to children aged between five and nine? I decided to set a simple quiz with true/false answers. One of the questions was: ‘Wasps make honey: true or false?’ This was simple, I thought. But an adult member of our group knew of a Mexican wasp that does make honey (though not for the same reasons that bees do). This provoked a lot of discussion, not only on wasps and bees, but on who had the ‘right’ answer. One child argued that, since I hadn’t known that wasps made honey when I set the quiz, he had the ‘right’ answer in answering that the statement was false.
