Bees are incredibly important for our ecosystem.
It’s estimated that 1/3 of the food we eat is pollination dependent and bees are the most efficient pollinators on the planet.
We’d like to help the next generation of gardeners, scientists, teachers, politicians, parents, farmers and decision makers learn about pollination, food sustainability, the bee life cycle, honey production and how they can help bees in their own backyards.
The Practical Beekeeper’s Primary School Mini Beast incursions are a fun, interactive and easy way to engage kids in science and their environment.
SESSION OVERVIEW
Our kid’s courses are tailored to the age group we are working with and include demonstrations, interactive activities and a whole lot of fun. You can see an example of Benedict teaching and sharing with a school group in this short documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXHEgg-ueOs
To help kids learn we bring with us:
- Demonstration hive perfect for Mini Beast inquiry
- Beekeepers uniform, including some items for the kids to try on
- Selection of beekeeping tools
- Set of large, beautiful bee posters
- Honey and popsicle sticks for a honey tasting
- Age appropriate activity materials
- Age appropriate factsheets or activity to take home
Teachers are asked to remain in the session to help with supervision of the kids.
SESSION DETAILS
In each Beekeeping Mini Beast session you and your students will get:
- An age appropriate pre-incursion activity to complete to introduce students to bees
- An introduction to bees, beekeeping and the equipment involved
- Learn about some of the bees in Australia and the different honey bees in a hive.
- Discuss what honey bees need to survive and thrive
- Learn about the bee lifecycle and how they communicate
- Taste some honey
- An age appropriate activity and fact sheet to take home to the family
SPECIAL CURRICULUM ACTIVITY – Yrs 3&4
A focussed discussion and demonstration about wax, observation of wax melting when heat is applied, plus make a candle to take home.
SPECIAL CURRICULUM ACTIVITY – Yrs 5&6
A more in-depth discussion about the properties of honey and an experiment to show how honey is denser than water and oil.
BOOKING DETAILS
Unfortunately we are no longer offering bookings however there are some great free beekeeping resources for your students here