It is amazing how much organisms work together to survive and thrive. We as humans, can learn the wisdom of crowds and collective intelligence from honeybees. When trying to solve a problem, it helps to work in groups. What surprised me the most is the flocking of birds. They do not have a leader like I learned from the discussion.

Questions: July 27, 2014

Birds really do not have a leader? How do they communicate where to go? How do they know the group is heading in the right direction?

Honeybees are awesome, is there an activity to show students the amazing group work they possess?

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In this lesson we learned about how certain organisms know how to work together to perform certain tasks. In nature, we see that organisms work as a team according to certain principles including:

Self-organization

Diversity of information

Indirect collaboration

Adaptive mimicking