School Field Trips

Our School Field Trip Program

Honeybee Centre has offered fun, exciting and interactive presentations for over 15 years! We are a staple in the community and continue to grow and expand to offer new and fresh programming for all ages!

Honeybee Centre has completely renovated our Honeybee Classroom and educational program. Our new program includes education about bees, beekeeping, pollination & environmental stewardship, interactive activities to accompany each lesson, and a take-home, bee-friendly, wildflower seedling craft included with each visit!

To learn more, follow the links below:

Learn about the field trip
See optional crafts
Review teaching resources available
Field trip admission
How to book a field trip

The Field Trip

Objectives:

To bring the amazing world of the honeybees to the forefront of education through hands on activities and explorations.
To showcase the relationship between humans and honeybees.
To feature the honeybee as an integral species in our food web.
To explore the honeybee and other pollinators as a keystone species in Earth's ecosystem.

Our program will educate on four main topics:

All About Bees

Pollination

Extraction/Beekeeping

Civic Duty

Using interactive ‘stations’, guest have a chance to learn explore and experience the lessons using all of their senses!

Children Will:

Taste different types of honey

Touch displays and learn about bees in a tactile manner

See the lesson come alive in the form of real beekeeping props, interactive displays and colourful posters

Listen to lessons not only from our guide but also to the reactions and observations from their peers while interacting with different educational activities!

Smell other bee products like bee pollen, beeswax and propolis

Each field trip includes a take-home bee friendly wildflower seedling craft that they can plant in their back yard, and a pre and post package for educators to reinforce lessons at Honeybee Centre and an incredible on-site interactive experience.

Optional Crafts

We offer a number of optional crafts for the students to create and take home.

Beeswax Candles

Students learn about how bees make wax and then learn techniques for rolling candles. Each student will roll their own candles from the equivalent of one sheet of beeswax.

Recommended ages: 7+

Throw 'n' Sow Seed Ball

Students will make a "seed ball" that they can plant at home. The ball will contain seeds that produce bee-friendly flowers

Recommended ages: 5+

Mini Terracotta pot Painting

Upgrade your peat pot to a mini terracotta pot! Students talk about the importance of flowers to pollinators while creating a painted pot to take home.

Recommended ages: 5+