Minibeast Safari Incursion

Incursion Overview

Get ready to join a marvellous minibeast safari. There is no need to pack your bags for this trip, just bring your sense of adventure! Explore the gardens of your early learning centre in search of local minibeasts. View them up close to discover their amazing features, how they move and feed and the important roles they play in our environment. Students will also meet some of our weird and wonderful resident minibeasts including the heaviest cockroach in the world.

Activities include

Minibeast Hunt: Students explore the gardens of your early learning centre to search for and collect magnificent minibeasts.

Bugs Up Close: Using our large bug viewers, children can view their minibeasts and discover their different body parts and how they move and feed. 

Weird and Wonderful Minibeasts: Students will meet our resident minibeasts including Spiny Leaf Insects, a Giant Burrowing Cockroach (the world’s largest cockroach breed), scorpion and spider.

Worms Up Close: Students will meet our wonderful wriggly worms from our worm farm and uncover the important role they play in recycling our food waste.

Notes and Inclusions

Site Requirements: The minibeast hunt can only be run if your early learning centre has sufficient garden areas, such as trees/shrubs, garden beds or mulch sections. Areas of artificial turf or playground matting are not suitable.

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.

Expected Costs:  Unless this is a free program paid for by your local council, we charge a fee for each program delivered to your Kinder/ELC. In addition to the program cost, there are extra charges to cover the return travel from our base in Cheltenham, as well as the time required for our staff to travel and take paid breaks. Your total cost will depend on how far your service is from Cheltenham and how your daily timetable is structured.

Your quote will clearly list all applicable charges, which may include:

• the program cost per number of groups you have booked
• the cost for the time our educator spends travelling to and from your kinder/centre/school
• the cost for the educator’s time during recess, lunch, or other required breaks
• return fuel costs charged at $0.98 per kilometre

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.