Minibeast Mysteries
Discover the tiny life hiding in your own backyard!
Pairs become bug detectives: they examine real minibeasts preserved in resin, count legs and body parts, sort them with a key, order life cycles, build a backyard food web, hunt for minibeasts in the school grounds and test how camouflage keeps them alive.
K–6 + HPGE
Hands-on
Investigations
Inquiry Based
Primary School Workshops
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What's In Minibeast Mysteries?
A hands-on workshop about minibeasts: what can a minibeast's body tell us about how it lives? Every student investigates with a challenge card matched to your stage.
Every session opens with a mystery about the tiny life around us, and ends with teams sharing what they discovered.
Inside · pairs
Inside · pairs
Inside · pairs
Inside · pairs
Outside · pairs (weather permitting)
Inside · pairs
Year Levels
K–6 + HPGE
Duration
60 or 90 minutes
Group Size
Up to 32
Price (incl GST)
$690 (60 min)
$21.56 per student
$790 (90 min)
$24.69 per student
Differentiated challenge cards matched to your class
Choose experiences to match your class interests
Predict, test, observe and explain
THE CRAZY SCIENTIST DIFFERENCE
Multiple Investigations. Learning Matched to Every Stage
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
Explore the learning at your stage.
Early Stage 1 — Minibeast Mysteries
Early Stage 1 cards help students look closely at real minibeasts and describe and group them by what they notice.
Relevant NSW Science & Technology outcomes (2024)
Every group works from a Early Stage 1 challenge card written for these outcomes.
✓ STe-SCI-01 — Living things have characteristics that help them survive in their environment
Examine animal bodies, their body coverings, and how and what they eat
✓ STe-SCI-01 — Living things have characteristics that help them survive in their environment
Observe and group animals based on their characteristics and justify the grouping
See the Science in Action
LEARNING BEYOND THE WOW
What Students learn & How We Support Teachers
What Your Students Will Learn
Identify the body parts of insects
Sort minibeasts by their features
Describe the life cycle of an insect
Build a simple food chain
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
Differentiated challenges and syllabus-connected learning across the workshop.
How we support teachers
Challenge cards for every stage, used by
students during the session.
Classroom follow-up experiments to keep the learning going
Risk assessment, Working With Children Check and public liability insurance details, sent before your visit
Thinking skills students practise
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Workshop Requirements & Bookings
Everything You Need to Know
Up to 32 students per session
Group Size
60 minutes
Session Time
A classroom with tables for 16 pairs. Everything runs inside.
Space & Setup
All materials, equipment, safety glasses and stage challenge cards.
What we Provide
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30+ Years Teaching Science
Experienced science teacher designing activities that keep children engaged, involved and learning.
We Bring Everything
Experiments, equipment and materials come with us — you just provide the space and the kids.
Tailored to Your School
Activities are adjusted to suit your class’s stage
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