Field-based STEM promotes local curriculum through field based a huge range of STEM workshops. They provide Professional Learning Development (PLD) for teachers and specialise in field-based professional development, working directly with real scientists or people who made a career in the scientific community.
The programmes span a wide range of subjects which are mostly about, but not limited to, these three main areas: The Great Outdoors, The World Around Us, and Earth and the Future.
The facilitators run workshops at Flexi Conferences held throughout the motu.
Participants can sign up for a single workshop or more, with workshops run after school, after dark, and during the school day – you get to choose what works best for you...
Each workshop costs $285.
The Great Outdoors
This about freshwater environments, coasts and estuaries, the bush, and lakes and wetlands.
- See our related topics: freshwater, estuaries, water, oceans, Te repo (wetlands).
The World Around Us
This deals with concepts such as space and astronomy, bugs, rocks and fossils and citizen science.
- See our related topics: astronomy, satellites, invertebrates, fossils, citizen science (and the Citizen science section)
The Earth and the Future
Tackles a few themes that are supported throughout New Zealand and of interest to teachers – Predator Free 2050, climate change education, GIS and NCEA changes.
- See our related topics: conservation and climate change. The article Predator Free 2050 vision inctroduces the range of resources we have covering this.
For more information, see: https://field-basedstem.kiwi/what-we-do.
The 2025 Flexi Conferences Registration form is here.
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