Bee Education
& School Incursions

Secondary School Bee Education Incursion

Brisbane and South East Queensland

COST From $500 plus GST

Urban Bee Education showcases the amazing world of pollinators in your own school’s backyard. Tailored to your curriculum needs Students will explore the importance of pollinators as an integral part of our food system, and how these amazing little creatures form a fundamental component of our food web.

Mapped to the Australian Curriculum V9 and your needs, Students may discover;

  • The biology of European and Native bees

  • Lean about some of the 1700+ Native bee species found in Australia

  • How and why bees pollinate our food, and their role in our food web

  • Discuss challenges effecting bees such as the Varroa mite and pesticides

  • Learn how to care for Australian Native Stingless beehives

  • Discover why household lawn chemicals are harming our bees

  • How and what to plant for a pollinator friendly garden

  • How to create habitat in your backyard to support our pollinators

Students will then get their hands dirty… and sticky with some hands on activities

  • View inside a real stingless native bee hive, identifying the brood, honey and pollen stores and maybe even spot the Queen!

  • Creating pollinator friendly seedballs to spread around the school or local community to improve floral resources for our bees and butterflies

  • Taste honeycomb cut straight from the frame

  • Option to create native solitary bee hotels to be used around the school to improve habitat

  • Option to Cold press their own take home jar of honey

  • Option to roll their own beeswax candle

  • Option to make their own beeswax lipbalm

Learning outcomes - Students will have a deeper understanding of how bees play an integral part of our food web. Challenges our bees and pollinators face with the use of chemicals and loss of habitat. The habitat requirements of different native bee species and how to restore local habitats.

Details-We can tailor our incursion to fit your timetable. Contact us to discuss further Email hello@urbanbee.qld.edu.au

Pollinator Conservation through Environmental Education

Experience - The Team at Urban Bee Education has had over 15 years experience working in schools and designing tailored educational programs for learning diverse students. Talis, our Head of Educational Design spent many years leading the Diverse Learning unit at a large p-12 school in Brisbane. Steph, our Lead Educator, has been delivering our flagship Bees in Schools program for over 5 Years. Her passion for bees is second to none and continues to inspire the young and young at heart through her Brisbane Bee Education programs. Aly, our Bee Educator, runs her own successful regenerative honey label Norma May Honey, and is extremely knowledgeable in all things bees and pollinators.

Risk Assessments and Safety - Safety is paramount for Urban Bee Education, luckily Talis has a Masters Degree in Health and Safety. We can supply you with all necessary risk assessments your school or organisation may need.

Urban Bee Team Qualifications- Masters OHSE, Grad Dip Research, Diploma Disability, Diploma Community Service, Diploma WHS, Cert 4 Training and Assessing, Valid Blue Cards

  • Park Ridge SHS

    An annual 2 day event where we run multiple bee education sessions to hundreds of year 7 students as part of their curriculum.

  • Notre Dame College

    The Students from Notre Dame College got hands learning about our Australian Native Bees and made some Solitary Native Bee Hotels

  • Woogaroo Creek State School

    Bee Education and classroom incursions for the students at Woogaroo Creek State School. Studetns enjoyed tasting fresh honeycomb

  • Good Samaritan Catholic College

    The Students from Good Samaritan Catholic College got hands learning about our Australian Native Bees and made some Solitary Native Bee Hotels