We provide Professional Learning Development (PLD) for teachers and specialise in field-based professional development.
Work directly with real scientists or people who made a career in the scientific community!
You have a choice to work with specialised scientists and science communicators who spent their careers in the scientific community.
Every one of us will be delighted to provide you with complementary information to what you already have, and tailor it to your needs.
We each are specialised scientists and science communicators.
We understand the constraints that you have to work with.
You know better than anyone how to teach your students. We bring experts so you can draw inspiration from real life experiences.
There is no hidden work agenda, no extra work for you to fill in.
We love being outside and our entire work philosophy is based on this fact.
The professional development programme is provided by the Ministry of Education and comes free for your school.
The places we go
The things we do
The plans we hope for
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.
We will look at how a combination of tectonics, sea level change and erosion processes have shaped the topography that we see today at Titahi Bay.
Understanding river health using a SHMAK kit (or similar) and visual health assessment, and the implications for the environment.
We will look at the impact of light pollution on a range of issues including the effect on pollinators, birds and humans.
Using ink and chew cards as a way of determining physiology/behaviours of introduced and endemic species.
The use of entomology & palynology and environmental factors within a crime scene and how this assists in the investigation of a serious crime scene.
differs from DNA profiling. The many types of powders and chemicals that can be used to develop fingerprints from a multitude of substrates. We will
What makes a rock pool tick? Measure rock pools (including depth), taking percent covers of algae, using quadrats to measure biodiversity and abiotic factors such as temperature and oxygen, pH.
Dive into computer-based simulations to explore the scientific basis to climate change as well as solutions.
Transform jam-making into a hands-on exploration of chemical and biological phenomena