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Welcome to the 2019-20 school year!

As you start preparing for the new school year, let the Beaty Biodiversity Museum help! All of our school programs provide educational opportunities for Science and Arts programs from Kindergarten to High School and beyond. Visit our website for programs designed for Elementary, Secondary and Post-Secondary classes. Check out our selection of educator resources outreach kits, and science videos.

Have suggestions for our website? Please let us know! If there's something that you think is in the wrong place on our website or if you can't find the content you're looking for, please email beaty.marketing@ubc.ca with your feedback.

New Outreach Kit: Marine Life Beaty Box

In addition to our Whale Flipper X-Ray, Inquiry, Seashore and Forest Beaty Boxes, we're excited to now offer a Marine Life themed outreach kit.

The theme for this Beaty Box is the interconnectedness of marine organisms and the impact of climate change. Under this theme, students will use critical thinking and problem solving skills to learn more about:

The relationships between the littlest and largest creatures in the ocean
The impact of extinction and climate change on marine food webs
The role of sustainable practices in shaping the future of the ocean

By the end of the lesson, your group should feel more comfortable describing the relationships between organisms and the way they are impacted by climate change.

Beaty Boxes are a great option if you're unable to bring the entire class out to the museum on a field trip. They are loaned out for 14-day periods, and you can pick them up whenever the museum is open. Learn more about the Beaty Box program. The Marine Life box is available for classrooms starting September 1, 2019.

Join us for our Annual Professional Development Day on October 25, 2019!

Come to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum for a professional development day. Learn how we can support your lessons with curriculum links in our exhibits, activities, and programs. K–12 teachers and all other educators, including home-learning facilitators, librarians, early learning specialists, and post-secondary faculty, are welcome to attend this professional development day. Space and materials limited, registration required.

About the Museum

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum strives to inspire an understanding of biodiversity, its origins, and importance to humans through collections-based research, education and outreach. As Vancouver’s natural history museum, we work to promote a greater sense of collective responsibility for the biodiversity of British Columbia, Canada, and the world. The unique combination of world-class research, paired with beautiful, compelling exhibits, strives to make the research conducted at UBC more accessible to the public.

Explore the university’s spectacular biological collections, with 20,000 square feet of exhibits showcasing over 500 permanent exhibits. Among our two million treasured specimens are a 26-metre-long blue whale skeleton suspended in the atrium, the third-largest fish collection in Canada, and myriad fossils, shells, insects, fungi, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants from around BC and across the world.

2212 Main Mall University of British Columbia | Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4 CA