Minibeast Safari Incursion

Incursion Overview

A hands-on investigation of the wonderful bugs and insects that live in your gardens (and our worm farm!) and the things they need to stay alive. Student hunt for minibeast in the garden, learn the role they play in the environment, look at them up close, build a garden home and meet our worms, stick insects, a giant burrowing cockroach, a spider and scorpion!

Activities include:

• Story book introduction
• Garden Hunt – Students explore your garden and search for and collect amazing minibeasts
• Guided Play Based Learning Activities:
  • Bugs Up Close – Have a close up look at your garden minibeast finds using hand lens’ and our USB microscope connected to a laptop.
  • Build a Garden Home – think about all the things that a minibeast would need in a home and build it in a mini sand-pit before adding the animals.
• Worms Up Close – Students have a close up look at compost worms using hand lenses and discover what cocoons and saddles look like
• Also, meet our resident Scorpion, stick insects and the world’s largest cockroach breed!

Duration: 60 minutes. Can be customised based on the needs of your learners. This program could also be delivered to 3 year old Kinder kids!

Restrictions: Maximum of 25 children per Gould League educator.

Curriculum Links:
The Early Years Learning Framework Outcomes are as follows:
Outcome 2: Children are connected with and contribute to their world (Community). Children become socially responsible and show respect for the environment
Outcome 4: Children are confident and involved learners (Learning): Children develop dispositions for learning such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity; Children develop a range of skills and processes such as problem solving, enquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating ; Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another; Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials.
Outcome 5: Children are effective communicators (Communication): Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes; Children express ideas and make meaning using a range of media.