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.
Practical strategies for teaching evolution through observation and key insights into Darwin’s groundbreaking ideas.
In many survival situations you are not alone and this can provide both benefits and challenges. Let us take you through a team building survival scenario that is fun, educational and has just a hint of competition!
Get lost with us and discover your inner strength! We will show you how you deal with the challenges of disorientation and uncertainty.
Who’s responsible for the oceanic disco lights the we call bioluminescence?
Commercial Fish harvesting and the controls and strategies employed to do the job efficiently.
This workshop will introduce participants to the only unique form of identification in the world. The history and science behind fingerprints and how this
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 then
In this workshop, we will look at how observing celestial occurrences has helped us build an understanding of the universe.
Identify local birds and undertake 5MBC and complete a quick quadrat survey of potential food sources, to determine if there is a link between the two.