Bee on the Team brings three trusted names in education (The National Theatre for Children, LEGO® Education and Moore Educational) together to deliver an innovative and robust STEM experience for your students, valued at over $10,000. Fully funded through a Maker Projects grant with the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, this program is offered to your school at no cost. Click an organisation name below to see what they provide for Bee on the Team.

National Theatre for Children

Bee on the Team begins with a 25-minute quirky comedy from The National Theatre for Children. Performed by two professional actors, the play follows worker bee Beatrice Drone on her first day at the hive. Queen Bee reports the bad news: the hive has been destroyed! J. Bearrymore, a bear who fancies himself a “Shakesbearian” actor, is to blame. Beatrice must collaborate with friends Ali the Butterfly and Archimedes the Ant to ask questions, test ideas, and solve problems so they can rebuild the hive and make honey once more.

Bee on the Team Educational Resources

Along with the in-school presentation, print and digital educational materials are provided for P-6 grade teachers to reinforce the lessons from the live show in the classroom, as well as lead to the other upcoming program experiences.

Teachers receive educational teacher guides with suggested activities to do before and after the live program, student workbooks to share with their students, infographic classroom posters to display for the classes, and access to online e-books, digital games and activities that can be utilized by individual students or whole classrooms.

The live program and follow-up classroom materials centre on four main teaching points. These four points jumpstart the program at large, leading from the live show and materials into the upcoming classroom and after-school driven portions of Bee on the Team.

  • Asking questions is the first step to solving problems

  • Creating and testing your ideas is called experimentation

  • Teamwork is an important tool for learning

  • Sharing your ideas contributes to knowledge

LEGO® Education

Bee on the Team provides schools with LEGO® Education SPIKE Prime sets and curriculum.

Growing critical thinking skills through complex, engaging and personally relevant STEAM challenges LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime is a STEAM learning tool for grades 3-6 students. Combining colourful LEGO® building elements, easy-to-use hardware and intuitive drag-and-drop coding language based on Scratch, SPIKE Prime engages students through playful learning to think critically and solve complex problems, regardless of their learning level. From easy-entry projects to limitless creative design possibilities, SPIKE Prime helps students learn the essential STEAM and 21st century skills needed to become the innovative minds of tomorrow - while having fun.

The LEGO Education SPIKE Prime app comes with 5 learning units: Inventions Squad, Kick Start a Business, Life Hacks, Training Tracker and Competition Ready that apply and develop computational, engineering and coding skills. It develops coding capabilities through Scratch block coding and Micro Python.  One App, for both SPIKE Prime and SPIKE Essential, to introduce coding and robotics in a progressive and intuitive way. SPIKE Prime curriculum units engage students in coding while developing real world problem solving skills.

Based on the Scratch Coding Platform with your Choice of Operating System Supported Operating Systems: iOS, Chrome, Windows 10, Mac and Android.

In addition to the Getting Started material, the LEGO® Education SPIKE™ App comes with 4 unit plans of curriculum-aligned STEAM content focusing on Engineering and Computer Science. Optimized for 45-minute lessons, these units accelerate STEAM learning by consistently engaging students to think critically and solve complex problems, regardless of their learning level. Comprehensive on line lesson plans gives teachers everything they need to deliver lessons with confidence, whatever their experience.

SPIKE Prime offers lessons for: •Engineering •Computer Science •Science •Competitions •Technology

SPIKE Prime develops confidence in STEM and strengthens the skills needed to inspire the innovative, creative minds of tomorrow.

Moore Educational

Igniting effective and impactful teaching and learning in Australian schools.

  • Building students skills for a digital future.

  • Ensuring quality educational solutions to schools.

  • Providing teachers with customer service, technical support and product training.