Welcome to Lady Buggy!

We provide Calgary area schools and homeschools 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. 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.

Activity centres are updated for the new Alberta curriculum at all grade levels.

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.

We can even customize activities according to your learning needs! Some unique ideas have included using insects as high school art drawing subjects, and using tarantulas to talk about overcoming fears of โ€œscaryโ€ 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!

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

See โ€œIn-Person Programsโ€ for more details, then call or email to talk to Georgia. Canโ€™t wait to hear from you!

โ€œI have booked multiple programs with Lady Buggy (aka Georgia) for Kindergarten classes over the years and each time I work with her I am more impressed! She is incredibly knowledgeable, enthusiastic in a way that helps kids learn AND she has an incredible knack for managing groups of kiddos. Before I met Lady Buggy, I never would have believed that a room full of 5 year old students could interact with real live bugs so successfully! Each child comes away from her program filled with wonder and new information to share. Georgia is respectful of the comfort level of each person (kids and adults!) she works with and at the same time allows space for risk taking and exploration that is unique to her classroom programming. I will continue to book Lady Buggy for โ€œin school field tripsโ€ in future and equally enjoyed participating in some of her Grade 1 programming as a volunteer. Thank you Georgia!”

K. Sutherland, Simon’s Valley School, 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