Classroom science comes to life!

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!

***Due to the precautions we all need to take during the Covid-19 pandemic, Lady Buggy programming has had to adapt. I will be offering themed, curriculum linked virtual programs where I will be as interactive as possible with your students. See the “What We Do” page for more details. In terms of in-person visits, as of this writing, schools are not allowing special guest presenters. I am willing to visit classrooms as soon as you are allowed to have me, so keep Lady Buggy in mind for when things get back to normal. In the meantime, virtual programs are an exciting option.***

***Homeschoolers! Lady Buggy has awesome options for you! Give me a call or email!***

The Lady Buggy program was an excellent lesson integration for my class. All of the students were very engaged and Georgia did a fabulous job of enthusiastically educating the kids. I highly recommend this program for anyone looking for an fun, hands on lesson on bugs!

J. Mckellar, Phoenix Foundation, Calgary

When Lady Buggy came to our Grade 4 classroom to share their knowledge and presentation on Spiders and Bats, I was thrilled with the outcome! These ladies had an amazing passion for sharing how Spiders and Bats are so important to our world. Their energy and enthusiasm hooked the students in right away! The information shared was highly interesting, right at their level, and the material was delivered in an interactive, fun manner, with student dressing up as the creatures while they learned about the body parts and experienced these critters special adaptations. The hands on materials including microscopes and slides, books, models, and costumes were fascinating and made learning about spiders and bats intriguing for the students. A highlight was having live critters in our classroom and being able to hold and overcome fears with these creatures! Students learned how delicate these creatures were and how we are actually more harmful to them than they are to us! Integrating Language Arts into the presentation was wonderful, as the students reviewed our story writing format and were part of creating a short skit, which they performed for our grade 1 buddies! This was a most memorable cross-curricular experience and the students are still talking about what they learned with Lady Buggy.

S. Gustavson, St Mary’s School, Okotoks