Field-Based STEM connects NZ teachers and students with real scientists delivering genuine field experiences across Aotearoa. When students encounter something real, they arrive at the classroom with something AI can extend rather than replace.
Our Real World Ready methodology gives school leaders a principled position on AI that starts with learning, not technology.
Field-Based STEM is not a PLD provider that talks about authentic learning. We deliver it.
Every session begins with something real. A forensic evidence kit. A portable astronomy dome. A live beehive. A stream. A geological site. Students encounter genuine expertise and genuine experience. That is what no screen can replicate.
Real World Ready is the methodology that makes that experience count. It gives school leaders a principled position on AI that starts with the learning, not the technology.
Our network includes forensic scientists, astronomers, marine biologists, geologists, ecologists, educational psychologists, and mātauranga Māori practitioners. Not educators who talk about science. Specialists who bring the real thing into your school.
We know how busy teachers and principals are. Every session is designed around your reality, not ours. No complicated setup, no unfamiliar systems, no disruption to what you already have running well.
Science confidence is a genuine challenge in NZ primary schools. Field-Based STEM was built to address that gap directly, with real scientists rather than kits or programmes delivered without specialist support.
We bring the expertise, the resources, and the design. You bring your students and your knowledge of them. That is the whole arrangement.
Students who arrive at a task with something real already forming use AI to extend their thinking. Field-Based STEM creates that foundation. Real World Ready makes the thinking visible and assessable.
Flexi Conferences are designed with you in mind - educators and professionals who need high-quality professional development tailored to their schedule.
The Ministry of Education funds teacher professional learning through its Regionally Allocated PLD initiative. MoE has some priorities eg STEM, Local Curriculum Design, and mātauranga Māori.
Successful applications can be for a few hours to support an individual, up to 80 hours to support a department, 200 hours for a school, or even 500 hours to support a cluster of schools.
These hours can be used in classroom settings with all of your class or on field trips with your class. They can also be used one on one with teachers. In addition to being available during standard school hours, Field-Based STEM is available after school, on weekends, and on holidays.
Māori developed the fishing hook beyond any other culture on the planet.
This workshop will introduce participants to the concept of trace evidence.
In this workshop you will take part in an interactive virtual field trip and see how to plan, create, share and evaluate your own virtual field trip. See how online Read More
A look at how schools can investigate/discover what's going on below the surface.
Original Physics Solutions is an innovative framework designed to make physics more inclusive and representative of diverse perspectives. It challenges traditional norms in physics education by fostering a more equitable Read More
Antarctica is a unique natural laboratory that helps us understand the Earth's climate, ocean systems, and the impact of human activity.
This workshop showcases a collection of STEM lessons that have been rigorously tested and proven to be highly effective across a wide range of subject areas, age groups, and ability Read More
Who’s responsible for the oceanic disco lights the we call bioluminescence?
