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.

The World Around Us

This deals with concepts such as space and astronomy, bugs, rocks and fossils and citizen science.

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.

For more information, see: https://field-basedstem.kiwi/what-we-do.

The 2025 Flexi Conferences Registration form is here.

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