Teaching Sustainability With Fun!

Easily incorporate STEM and sustainability learning into your everyday. Here is how we empower learning with the Hive Explorer.

1. Hive Explorer Educator Set

For home schooling or in the classroom: Hive Explorer Set + 5 lessons for self-use

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2. Hive Explorer Curriculum

Comprehensive 13 lesson curriculum which aligns with most international curricular and contains more than 25 hours worth of lesson material

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3. Customised Teaching for your School

Want to make your lessons more sustainability-focused? We provide customised services and zero waste school programs!

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STEM EDUCational Tool

STEM.org Authenticated

The Hive Explorer has been given the STEM.ORG authenticated trust mark, ensuring that it will help strengthen STEM learning skills while promoting STEM education.

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Curriculum & Learning Resources

Each of our lessons consists of a comprehensive teacher's guide, lesson plan, ready-to-roll slides, vocabulary explanation and additional worksheets.

It also has the added benefit of aligning with most international curricula including: IB, NGSS, UK and EU national curricula.

Module 1: Get started with Insect Farming

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Module 2: Discover our Food System

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Module 3: Mealworm Farming Technology

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Module 4: Food Waste Composting with Bokashi

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Module 5: Harvest Fermented Bokashi Compost

PREVIEW

Discover 8 more Modules

See the rest of our learning modules and their descriptions.

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Find out how the Hive Explorer curriculum can help you teach essential skills to your students. 

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The Hive Explorer Magazine

Every purchase of a Hive Explorer comes equipped with our magazine and manual. This magazine will give you an overview of your Hive Explorer and is also a workbook filled with loads of fun and educational activities that you can enjoy at your home, school or business.

What can we learn with The Hive Explorer?

• Interactions between living and non-living nature

• Structures and regeneration of ecosystems

• Materials cycle and energy flow in an ecosystem

• Biodiversity

• Interspecies relationships

• Understanding of global, regional and local problems

• Understanding of natural and built environments

• Understanding of human activity and its effects on the planet and well-being of people

• Understand and reflect on social and economic questions

• Develop skills of critical thinking & problem-solving

• Learn to use specific vocabulary to communicate ideas and thoughts clearly

• Sustainability of systems

• Environmental indicators & ecological footprints 

• Design, evaluate, and refine a solution for reducing the impacts of human activities on the environment and biodiversity

• Develop interest and curiosity in knowing how things work

• Design and make artefacts

• Apply design thinking in solving problems

See how our lessons align with your curriculum!

• National Curricula for Kindergarten, Primary & Secondary 

• IB

• NGSS

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The Hive Explorer Set
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The Hive Explorer Set
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The Hive Explorer Set

The Hive Explorer Set

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UK and IRELAND: Currently no shipping possible due to the Corona crisis. 
Canada and Central+South America Notice: we are facing some difficulties with shipping to your region right now. In the meantime, you can purchase the Hive Explorer here. 
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*Don't forget to choose the right plug type for your region*

Start a sustainable ecosystem right at home and schools and grow protein and fertilizer to provide for your pets, yourself, and your garden.

What it includes :

  • The Hive Explorer Desktop Mealworm Farm
  • Automated Micro-Climate with Sensors, Safe Heatplate and Ventilation
  • 1 CleanAir Filter
  • 1 Hive Explorer Magazine
  • Science Experiment Pack (Magnifying Glass, 3 Petri Dishes, 3 Tweezers, & 1 Spoon)
  • Access to our Hive Community of Mealworm Farmers
  • Our unconditional love through personal online support (We speak English and German)
DOES NOT INCLUDE LIVE MEALWORMS. Purchase them here or at your local pet store. 

**For customers in the European Union, VAT will be charged at check-out. For customers outside of the European Union, VAT and taxes might be applicable at the moment of import and the customer is responsible for any such import charges, by example, applicable taxes, fees, VAT, customs including but not limited to sales, use, excise, or similar taxes levied under federal, state or local tax laws.

Please contact us if you cannot find your country in the list at check-out or in case of other questions about shipping. Our shipping costs cover safe transportation, tracking and insurance.

The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle
The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle

The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle

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Free Shipping to most regions in USA, EU + Asia
UK and IRELAND: Currently no shipping possible due to the Corona crisis. 

Canada and Central+South America Notice: we are facing some difficulties with shipping to your region right now. In the meantime, you can purchase the Hive Explorer here. 
*Don't forget to choose the right plug type for your region*

Learn more in-depth about sustainability, green technology and about all the superpowers of insects in nature. Start a sustainable ecosystem right at home or in the classrooms and grow proteins and fertilizer to provide for your pet, yourself, and your garden.

The Hive Explorer Educator Bundle includes:

      • The Hive Explorer Desktop Mealworm Farm
        • Automated Micro-Climate with Sensors, Safe Heatplate and Ventilation
        • 1 CleanAir Filter
        • 1 Hive Explorer Magazine
        • Science Experiment Pack (Magnifying Glass, 3 Petri Dishes, 3 Tweezers, & 1 Spoon)
        • Access to our Hive Community of Mealworm Farmers
        • Our unconditional love through personal online support (We speak English and German)

Plus:

      • Live Mealworm Starter Kit
        (only in supported regions EU, USA, China and Hong Kong)

      • 5 sustainability lessons
        Guided curriculum and exercises for 5 class or home lessons with exercises for download to print yourself

      • A0 poster
        a beautiful sustainability themed A0 poster in PDF form


**For customers in the European Union, VAT will be charged at check-out. For customers outside of the European Union, VAT and taxes might be applicable at moment of import and the customer is responsible for any such import charges, by example applicable taxes, fees, VAT, customs including but not limited to sales, use, excise, or similar taxes levied under federal, state or local tax laws.

Please contact us if you cannot find your country in the list at check-out or in case of other questions about shipping. Our shipping costs cover a safe transportation, tracking and insurance.

Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching
Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching

Curriculum for Easy Sustainability Teaching

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Wondering how to get the most out of your educational work with Hive Explorer? We have developed a ready-to-go curriculum for you with 13 lessons and more than 25 hours run-time:

  • Hands-on exercises and worksheets
  • covering a variety of topics related to mealworm farming, insect eating, nitrogen cycles, growing of microalgae and cooking!
  • see more details on each lesson here
  • download a sample lesson here
  • see curriculum alignment to standards here

What's Included:

• Download 13 fully developed lessons. Each of the lessons contains:

  1. Lesson Plan and Teacher Guide
  2. Lesson Presentation PPT + PDF
  3. Lesson Notes for Delivering the PPT without prior preparation
  4. Worksheet for hands-on exercises + Resources & Material List

• Standards aligned

• Vocabulary

• For use with the Hive Explorer Set or Hive Explorer Educator Set (Hive Explorer is not included)

 

Recommended Use:

STEM Classes, Biology Classes, Geography Classes, Liberal Studies Classes, Environmental Science Classes, Summer Schools, Workshops