Classroom science comes to life!

 

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Welcome to Lady Buggy!

We provide Calgary area schools with in-class science enrichment programs, specializing in insects and other invertebrates and including live animal handling. In other words, we bring bugs into classrooms and your students will have the chance to hold them! The learning is truly hands-on and the real live animals are just the beginning. We also bring interactive curriculum-linked activities like the Ladybug Puppet Picnic for Grade 1 (Needs of Plants and Animals), the Black-light Pollination Hunt for Grade 2 (Small Crawling and Flying Creatures), and a Life Cycle Relay Race for grade 3 (Life Cycles). Multiple styles of learning are activated with games, costumes, microscopes, and more as the students rotate through stations filled with learning that is engaging, unique, and of course, hugely fun.

We can even customize activities according to your classroom needs! Some unique ideas have included using insects as high school art drawing subjects, and using tarantulas to talk about overcoming fears of “scary” creatures at Halloween. Kids of all ages are fascinated by bugs and the possibilities for learning are endless. Do you have an idea? Lets talk!

The specific bugs we bring may vary but typically include isopods, vinegaroons, tarantulas, giant millipedes, darkling beetles and caterpillars. All of them are safe and the children will be closely supervised while interacting with them.

Are you ready to book the most memorable in-class field trip you’ve ever had?

Click the “What We Do” link below for more school program details, then call or email to talk to Georgia. Can’t wait to hear from you!

 

Our experience with Lady Buggy was fun, educational and very intriguing for the children. There was learning the scientific body parts of bugs through dramatic play, exploring different specimens with the microscopes or magnifying glasses, playing sorting games to learn different classifications, and the amazing hands on experience with the live bugs and creatures. The tarantulas were the favourite and most intriguing. The experience with Lady Buggy was the perfect way for our program to expand on the interest the students had with the bugs and insects in our natural environment. As bugs and insects are a regular topic the children explore from year to year, we’ll be booking Lady Buggy for years to come!

R. Duncan, Program Director, Rosedale Playschool, Calgary

Lady Buggy came well prepared for my group of preschoolers, ages 4-6 years of age. She came with a huge assortment of live creatures, that we viewed through handheld microscopes, in her hands, and in their own environment. She was engaging and educating for their age level, and held their attention using a variety of teaching methods. The effects of this program were long lasting, as the children often spoke about how helpful spiders were long after this class was over, and would stop and inspect insects more carefully when outside. I can’t wait to have her come again!

C. Parker, Playtography, Calgary