Local Partner Resource Guide
New & Revised Offerings from Trusted Partners
Here's the latest information about virtual and in-person field trips, in-school programs, and professional development.
Updated deadlines and new opportunities will be shared out in the weekly email newsblast as they become available.
Wondering what new exhibits are coming to the museums and science centers around the Bay Area? Find out on our New and Temporary Science Exhibit page.
Updated Fal 2025
In-School Programs
CRS teacher members are elligible to receive inviations to host scienists from our BASIS (Bay Area Scientists Inspiring Students) in-person in their school classrooms.
Professional Development
CRS offers customized professional development for schools and disticts.
Find about new workshops and all the resources and links from past Building Environmental & Climate Literacy series of workshops.
Updated Fall 2025
Professional Development
AEOE offers in-depth online eeCourses for deeper learning and exploration of topics related to environmental education. eeCourses are offered over a six-eight-week period, with course work completed asynchronously.
Weekly free webinars are also available on a variety of topics related to environmental and outdoor learning
Updated Fall 2024
Field Trips - In Person
Three-hour, docent-led nature hike cultivates environmental literacy, connects what happens in your classroom to what happens on the trails of the preserves, and supports learning with a set of standards-based resources. The experience is designed for children in 3rd–5th grades.
For more information, visit the Audubon Canyon Ranch's School Programs page.
Professional Development
Join their teacher mailings lists to hear about any professional development opportunities with Audubon Canyon Ranch. Email mgpschoolprogram@egret.org or Jacqueline.levy@egret.org to join.
Updated Fall 2024
Professional Development
They offer several modalities of teacher PD throughout the year. Join the BABEC teacher community and meet your peers from around the Bay!
Updated Fall 2025
Now taking reservations for the 2025-26 school year
Field Trips - In Person
Visit the Bay Area Discovery Museum to take part in hands-on explorations in one of our STEAM workshops or on a Discover-It-Yourself field trip. All programs include the opportunity to explore all 7.5 acres of the museum in its beautiful national park setting!
Painter's Place: Get ready to dib, dab and brush across a communal canvas—or dream up a personal creation to take home. It’s art without the rules, mess without the stress, and joy in every splatter. We’ve got the supplies (and the smocks) — bring your creativity.
In-School Programs
Bring the Bay Area Discovery Museum to your community or classroom with our Try it Truck and STEAM Workshops! We’ll provide multi-sensory explorations of STEAM concepts while encouraging collaboration, creative problem-solving and play.
Upon request and dependent on staffing capacity, any school and community programs can be facilitated in Spanish. Most teacher resources are translated into both Spanish and Modern Chinese.
Scholarships & Grants
The Bay Area Discovery Museum offers scholarship pricing for all programs. Scholarships are reserved for Title-1 and other schools and organizations that serve communities with large populations of low-income families (40% or higher). You can request the scholarship rate directly in the booking form.
For all questions regarding financial aid, please contact us at schoolvisits@badm.org.
Professional Development
The Bay Area Discovery Museum offers professional development for a variety of audiences, including teachers and librarians. Specializing in integrating play-based STEAM learning into different settings, our trainings incorporate hands-on learning, practical tips and tools for implementation.
Updated Summer 2025
Reservations begin August 2025
Field Trips - In Person
Field trips to the California Academy of Sciences are a hit with all grade levels, from preschool to high school. Dates for the 2023-2024 school year are now open! Visit the aquarium, planetarium, and rainforest - all under one living roof.
Field Trips - Virtual
Free Distance Learning programs are open to all K-8 students wherever they are set up to engage in learning during the school day. Each livestream is a lesson taught by professional educators. Events feature hands-on activities or kinesthetic movement that students can do while tuning in.
Designed for middle school youth in out-of-school time (OST), Science Action Club (SAC) features kit, curriculum, and training. The English/panich bilingual SAC kits feature games, projects, and hands-on investigations that inspire wonder for the natural world and contribute to authentic science. Each kit includes 12 activity plans, tools and supplies for 20 youth, and access to online training.
Updated Fall 2024
In-School Programs
The Schoolyard Cleanup Program guides schools or smaller groups in using a litter cleanup to engage in science investigation using all the NGSS SEPs.
Professional Development
The Commission offers professional development opportunities relating to their curricular resources, at conferences, as stand-alone trainings, or for in-service, as available. Sign up for our Educator Announcements email list.
Updated Fall 2025
Scheduling begins August 25, 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
This guide provides basic information about educational programs in the state parks. The parks are sorted by county and each has a contact phone number listed. The guide details which parks provide the following types of programs: Natural History field trips, Cultural Heritage field trips, Environmental Studies (day events), Environmental Living (overnight events), Junior Rangers, Litter-Getters, and Junior Lifeguards.
Virtual Programs
PORTS (Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students) Program is a FREE distance learning program with California State Parks. PORTS uses the power of videoconferencing to support K-12 educators in designing deep and meaningful learning experiences for their students. They offer on-demand and live virtual programs from parks across the state.
Professional Development
From day trips to environmental living overnights to in-school programs, California's state parks offer opportunities for students to learn about our natural and cultural history through hands-on experiences and interaction with trained staff and volunteers. Encompassing a mind-boggling array of natural and cultural resources. Find more.
Updated Fall 2025
Virtual Programs
Central Sans offers a variety of virtual programs to explore what goes down the drain. "Toilet Paper or Non-Toilet Paper" and "What Goes Down Our Kitchen Sink" are favorites. Or take a Virtual Tour of the waste water treatment plant.
In-School Programs
The goal of every Central San lesson is to help students think more critically about “what happens to our dirty water after it goes down the drain?” They can come to your classroom or playground.
For more information, visit the Learn with Central San page.
Updated Fall 2025
Booking field trips all year round.
Field Trips - In-Person
Chabot restructured their field trip experience to give you more choice and more control. Select from multiple unique itineraries designed to cater to different learning goals and grade levels. Once you book, your itinerary is set for the day, no surprises, just streamlined, meaningful exploration.
Field Trips - Virtual
The Center always has free virtual resources in their Learning Launchpad.
Get ready to explore and learn more about the Universe and Planet Earth with new activities, videos, and more. They are bringing science to life with content created by their very own education team!
Grants & Scholarships
They are happy to offer their 20% discount to all Title 1 schools! Simply indicate your school's status in the request form and they will automatically apply the discount.
Updated Fall 2025
In-School Programs
The Alameda County Team of Citizens’ Climate Lobby helps high school students become engaged in tackling the climate crisis, by working with teachers to offer interactive learning sessions, using Enroads. The EnRoads Simulator is a data-rich, web-based dashboard model that students can use to explore the interactions between carbon emissions and the climate crisis, which actions are most effective to reduce the rise in global temperature, and address climate justice.
Updated Fall 2025
Spanish Resources
CLEAN has resources in Spanish about guidance for teaching climate & energy.
Professional Development
Take your teaching about climate and energy to the next level with the CLEAN Webinar Series. Check out their schedule of upcoming webinars and their archive of recorded webinars below. All CLEAN webinars are virtual and use the online Zoom platform with screen share and integrated audio.
For questions, more information, or to request a webinar for your school district, please contact them at clean@colorado.edu.
Updated Fall 2025
Booking will reopen for the 2025–2026 school year in late August or early September.
Field Trips - In-Person
All of CuriOdyssey school & group programs are designed to support the Next Generation Science Standards and the science curriculum you develop for your school, classroom and students.
They will work with you to provide a memorable experience either at CuriOdyssey or at your school site.
In-School Programs
CuriOdyssey's mobile classroom can bring hands-on STEM lessons or wildlife experiences to your school
Updated Fall 2025
Now accepting requests for Fall 2025 (August 11- December 31, 2025).
Field Trips - In-Person
Engaging learning experiences on topics including wildlife, natural science, environment, geology, ecology, climate, and farm life. EBRPD provides field trips, in-school programs, and virtual programs aligned with Next Generation Science Standards and the California Social Studies standards.
The East Bay Regional Park District is proud to offer reduced fee transportation to our parks through our Parks Express Transportation Program. Eligibility: At least 50% of the school’s students must be on the current Free and Reduced Lunch Program list, published on the California Department of Education’s website.
Field Trips - Virtual
Naturalist-led field trips are also offered in virtual formats. Visit the Educator Resources page for more information.
In-School Programs
The Mobile Education Naturalist team brings the park experience to you!
With EBRPD's Mobile Visitor Center, they can visit classrooms, libraries, and more across Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. They also have numerous visitor centers which also bring their field trip programming to the classroom
Updated Fall 2025
Now taking reservations for the 2025-26 school year
Field Trips - In-Person
Visit an EBMUD Reservoir and Water Treatment Plant on this experiential field trip where students learn about where their drinking water comes from and see the process of how it is filtered, disinfected, and tested before it is sent out to the community.
EBMUD is pleased to offer reimbursement for the bus transportation to the EBMUD field trips. Partial-cost bus reimbursement is available for public schools. Full-cost bus reimbursement is available for Title 1 schools. Schools must pay upfront for the bus and will be reimbursed after the field trip.
Field Trips - Virtual
Get to know EBMUD's Wastewater Treatment Plant! This live virtual tour covers a range of topics, including types of wastewater, contaminants, pollution prevention, history of wastewater treatment, wastewater treatment fundamentals, and beneficial reuse.
In-School Programs
The ZunZun Musical Watershed Assembly is available for FREE to public elementary schools within the EBMUD service area.
This 30-minute assembly program teaches students about watershed awareness and water conservation in a fun, lively, and humorous performance.
Professional Development
Bring Water Education to Your Classroom and discover EBMUD's water and wastewater systems, and learn how to inspire your students with engaging, hands-on lessons about our most vital resource.
Join us for teacher workshops and take your teaching to the next level!
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - Virtual
Energy is Everything provides enrolled educators access to a library of over 200 quality standards-aligned, energy and sustainability-focused STEAM lessons (English/Spanish, formal/informal); lesson supplies; Lab days; My Future Energy Career presentations; and, Ongoing support from their team.
All of their student/family-facing materials are available in Spanish and English.
The program is offered to California educators at no-cost if they meet program requirements.
In-School Programs
Energy is Everything provides enrolled educators access to a library of over 200 quality standards-aligned, energy and sustainability-focused STEAM lessons (English/Spanish, formal/informal); lesson supplies; Lab days; My Future Energy Career presentations; and, Ongoing support from their team.
All of their student/family-facing materials are available in Spanish and English.
The program is offered to California educators at no-cost if they meet program requirements.
Professional Development
Energy is Everything provides educators with professional development opportunities to increase their confidence in teaching science, STEM, energy, and sustainability topics. The program offers ongoing staff support, co-teaching opportunities, and capacity-building opportunities.
Updated Fall 2025
General registration is now open.
Field Trips - In-Person
Environmental Volunteers offers several field trip options available for all grades. Some require bus transportation, but at least one option is ‘walkable’ from your school.
Please note that all school programs must be requested and confirmed no later than 6-weeks in advance. They must also meet the semester confirmation deadlines: Sept 1st for Fall, Dec 1st for Winter, Feb 1st for Spring.
Field Trips - Virtual
Environmental Volunteers offers in-person, hands-on science programs for all grades K-6 in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. These programs consist of standards-based learning stations, focused on a specific subject area appropriate to your grade level. Each grade has at least one program available that directly supports NGSS, and each program can be adapted to best support your students wherever they may be with the topic.
Scholarships & Grants
The “Let’s Go!” Field Trip Fund offers transportation subsidies to high need, low-income schools and youth-serving organizations that support students in those schools. Schools and Organizations within the 9 Bay Area Counties are eligible to apply.
The “Let’s Go!” Field Fund, formally known as the Transportation Fund (TF), launched in 2011 through a generous grant from the Environmental Education Funders Consortium.
Updated Fall 2025
Now taking reservations for the 2025-26 school year
Field Trips - In-Person
Exploratorium field trips offer:
- 700+ hands-on exhibits
- BART, ferry and bus-friendly location
- Free admission for Title I schools
- Orientation and demonstrations with Explainers
- Chaperone tips and student resources
Questions? Contact fieldtrips@exploratorium.edu
Spanish Resources
Los Bocadillos son experimentos científicos interactivos puestos a prueba por educadores que utilizan materiales comunes y baratos. Explora la colección en español.
Latinx+ Engineering Day is a family-friendly collaboration between the Exploratorium and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), where the musuem welcomes visitors from all ages and backgrounds to connect with engineers and STEM educators.
Professional Development
The Exploratorium offers a three-week Summer Institute for secondary science teachers who are in at least their third year of teaching. Applications for summer 2026 will open in December! .
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
The Forestry Challenge is an academic event for high school students in technical forestry and current forestry topics. Participants spend four days in the forest learning about the ecology and management of the forests that provide communities with water, wood, recreation, and wildlife habitat.
The events are free to attend! Substitute and transportation reimbursement is available. They also offer scholarships to program alumni pursuing a degree in forestry and natural resources.
Updated Fall 2025
Professional Development
Connect your students to an international network of students, teachers, and scientists to learn more about our shared environment. For a school to fully participate in The GLOBE Program, at least one teacher must be trained in GLOBE science measurement protocols and education activities by attending a GLOBE Teacher Workshop online or in person.
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
Headwaters Science Institute does student-driven research programs. Students learn scientific question-asking, data collection, and how to present their research. Headwaters Science Institute works with K-12th grades. They bring the students outdoors for a field day and also do offer overnight programs as well.
Field Trips - Virtual
Headwaters Science Institute has a free Lunch with a Scientist program for middle school and high school. They can do a live talk with a scientist and a class of students, or prerecorded talks and lessons are also available.
For more information on Virtual Programs, contact info@headwatersscienceinstitute.org
In-School Programs
Headwaters Science Institute can do the same student-driven research programs at schools. Students learn scientific question-asking, data collection, and how to present their research. Headwaters Science Institute works with K-12th grades. They can also bring the students outdoors for a field day at school.
For more information on In-School Programs, contact info@headwatersscienceinstitute.org
Professional Development
Headwaters has created a professional development framework to build capacity within your school or district. Their professional development can be done in person or online. This experience immerses teachers into the strudent-driven research process and enables them to implement it within their classroom.
Updated Fall 2025
Professional Development
The Summer Fellowship Program is an immersive, hands-on professional development experience for teachers. You’ll work on projects at local companies, nonprofits, and university research labs to learn how classroom concepts and skills are applied, and can engage your students with new curriculum while also earning a stipend.
During the school year, the Learning Community meets monthly to connect teachers with industry leaders and fellow educators interested in bringing cutting-edge careers into their classrooms. Join via Zoom while cooking dinner or on your commute home!
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
Join KIDS for the BAY to explore creek, bay and ocean habitats and meet unique plants and animals that make these environments their home. Each Field Trip lasts 3.5 hours, is led by an experienced environmental science educator, and includes hands-on investigations, nature art, and a cleanup.
Some programs are fully funded and free to many teachers depending upon the program and city. Fee programs are offered at reduced rates with sliding scale pricing tiers dependent upon the low-income percentage of students at that specific school. See registration forms for each program for the pricing tiers, if applicable.
Field Trips - Virtual
The Blue Watershed Classrooms Program includes ready-to-teach Classroom Lessons focusing on our unique San Francisco Bay watershed and how we are all connected to this special environment. Lessons include a clean-up, Environmental Action Project, and everyday classroom changes to reduce waste.
In-School Programs
KIDS for the BAY School Programs provide hands-on science learning, connect students with nature, empower students to become active Environmentalists and provide professional development and ongoing support for partner classroom teachers. All programs are aligned with NGSS and Common Core.
Professional Development
Our Watershed Action Program and Storm Drain Rangers Program are both eligible for completing continuing education units through California State University, East Bay. By completing a series of assignments throughout the program, you will be eligible to earn two or three units.
Updated Fall 2025
In-School Programs
Youth Takeover is a unique year-long program that partners with high school classrooms from nine Bay Area counties to help students produce audio feature stories destined for KQED’s broadcast, podcast and online programming.
Professional Development
KQED Teach is an online platform for educators in K-12 will gain the skills and confidence to successfully incorporate media literacy and media production into your teaching. KQED offers 10 self-paced online courses and many live virtual courses throughout the year.
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
A field trip to The Lawrence gives your students new and exciting ways to engage with science! Make your field trip experience unique by exploring our hands-on exhibits at our science center in Berkeley.
In-School Programs
Can’t make it to The Lawrence with your students? Let them bring hands-on science to you with outreach programs from The Lawrence On-The-Go! Their science shows, festivals, and workshops deliver engaging, NGSS-aligned science fun to classrooms and even entire schools without leaving your site.
Professional Development
The Lawrence Hall of Science can provide custom professional learning experiences to support leaders and educators in increasing student engagement and providing equitable, high-quality STEM instruction and environmental literacy for pre-K through high school.
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
School tours are offered Tuesday - Thursday at 10am, 11:30am and 1pm from March through June.
If your school qualifies for Title 1 funding (or your group is affiliated with a nonprofit) and you are in need of scholarship support, please reach out to the education team at learn@tmmc.org.
Professional Development
The Ocean Ambassadors middle school program provides professional development and support throughout the academic year as well as curriculum and connected field experiences.
Updated Fall 2025
Now taking reservations for the 2025-26 school year
Field Trips - In-Person
The Marine Science Institute provides scientific experiences built on California standards-based activities and a memorable voyage into nature for students of all economic backgrounds. The Marine Science Institute puts students in physical contact with the SF Bay and coast environments to help cultivate their natural sense of curiosity, enrich their understanding of science, and foster a responsibility to protect the environment.
In-School Programs
The Marine Science Institute provides hands on marine science education with live animals that visit your location.
Do you have littles? MSI has a specialized program just for you. Under the Sea with Me is both classroom and field trip.
Scholarships & Grants
Check out the Marine Science Institute's Get-a-Grant Toolbox, a collection of tools and tips created by our fundraising team to help you raise money to pay for your Marine Science Institute education programs.
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
Overnight and One Day environmental science programs take youth out of the classroom and into national parks.
Updated Fall 2025
Registration for 2025/26 school year programs is now open!
Field Trips - In-Person
OMCA looks forward to greeting you and your students with onsite programs that help students reflect, connect, and contribute to their communities.
Explore the many stories of California and its people, while learning about the natural, artistic, and social forces that affect the state. Come investigate your own role in California’s history and its future.
Scholarships & Discounts
All programs and self-guided visits are free for Oakland Unified School District groups. Title I schools outside of OUSD receive a 50% discount during the school year.
Public transit and bus scholarships are available during the school year and can be requested during registration. Scholarships are awarded on a rolling basis throughout the year, with priority given to OUSD and Title I schools.
OMCA offers a 30% discount for Oakland Unified School District groups during summer visits.
Updated Fall 2025
Fields Trips - In-Person
Pegasus Voyages offers school voyages designed to serve a full public or private school class (up to 26 students), from 4th through 12th grades.
Classes will be split into two groups by class instructor and we will conduct two back-to-back sails in order to get the entire class out on the water in one day (14 passengers maximum per sail, including instructor).
Updated Fall 2024
Fields Trips - Virtual
Bees in Eduction Program teachers the importance of bees to our food systems and ecosystems as a pathway to conservation and STEM fields, cultivating the green leaders of tomorrow through the power of science and stewardship.
Professional Development
Educators have access to professional development workshops, real-time virtual STEM lessons taught by our certified teachers, individual lesson videos, scripted lesson plans, differentiated supplemental material, and our Native Bee Citizen Science Projects.
Updated Fall 2025
Now scheduling for the
2025-26 school year
Field Trips - In-Person
RAFT hosts field trips to our location where students can engage in fun, hands-on STEAM learning. RAFT provides all materials, showcasing their STEAM learning kits, and trips are led by their experienced facilitators.
RAFT offers discounts for Title I schools, but does not include transportation.
Fields Trips - Virtual
With RAFT's Distance Learning Resources, students engage in engineering challenges that take advantage of household materials and/or use RAFT supplied materials.
RAFT will showcase student design solutions on our social media platforms.
In-School Programs
RAFT brings the STEAM field trip to your campus during the school day. Engages students in hands-on STEAM activities using upcycled materials.
Professional Development
RAFT tailors professional development support to meet the specific needs of schools and districts. Whether it’s in support of a multiple-year, district-wide initiative or a small scale pilot, RAFT meets teachers where they are and work in partnership throughout the school year.
Updated Fall 2025
Now scheduling for the 2025-26 school year
Field Trips - In-Person
Through San Francisco Maritime National Park Association's hands-on field trips, students appreciate San Francisco Bay and its wildlife, exploring history from a unique perspective. Based on science and history, students are introduced to standards-based concepts and shift focus to people and places of the bay.
Scholarships available on a limited bases to qualifying Title 1 schools.
Professional Developement
Explore the San Francisco Maritime National Park and what its resources can offer your students. Professional development days planned for Fall and Spring, when staff will get out on the water and take a deep dive into museum studies.
Updated Fall 2025
Professional Developement
The San Francisco Microscopical Society is a community of people who use microscopes across both science and the arts.
Sign up as a member to access to their online community and events. These are friendly spaces where you can ask questions & meet people from a multitude of disciplines.
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
Bay Discovery - This in-person program brings students to the shoreline to gain a deeper understanding of San Francisco Bay and our rich relationship to it. Students also have an opportunity to complete a service learning project exhibiting the positive impact we can have on our environment.
Field Trips - Virtual
Join Save The Bay staff on the shoreline from home or from the classroom. Each session includes a short presentation, a live virtual tour of their nursery and the shoreline, and finishes with an activity encouraging students to share what they’ve learned.
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
SaveNature.Org offers a Behind the Scenes tour of their San Francisco office, allowing people to see/hold insects that they don't bring to their traditional Insect Discovery Lab programs. Behind the Scenes tours are tailored for smaller groups and audiences > 5yrs.
Field Trips - Virtual
SaveNarture.Org offers a virtual version of our Insect Discovery Lab. Participants will get an up-close look at all of the insects we typically bring to an in-person program, learning all about the insects and focusing on observation skills.
If you are interested in booking the Insect Discovery Lab presentation in Spanish, please make a note when filling out their booking inquiry form and they will work with you.
In-Person Programs
SaveNature.Org's Insect Discovery Lab allows people of all ages to explore the fantastic lives of insects and all they encompass. Their 30 min - 1 hr long programs allow participants to pet and hold insects from all over the world, guided by trained and enthusiastic education specialists.
SaveNature.Org tries to provide discounts whenever possible on their Insect Discovery Lab to ensure equitable access to our education programs for all.
Updated Fall 2025
In-School Programs
Have a team of scientists visit your classroom once a month to do hands-on science and engineering lessons with your students
Professional Development
Science is Elementary’s Professional Development is customized to your school or site.They help teachers improve their classroom practice through a combination of group sessions and personalized coaching.
Updated Fall 2025
Professional Development
STEM4Real builds educator capacity by creating tools for equity-centered teaching and developing learning experiences that represent all students. They CONNECT with our students, CREATE culturally responsive instruction, and CULTIVATE anti-racist teaching that supports 3D student learning for all, #4Real.
Updated Fall 2025
Programs for Schools
Explore San Francisco Bay ecology, natural and cultural history, with a visit to Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in the Port of Oakland. Apply on-line for FREE Kindergarten - 12th grade theme-based programs. All OUSD schools are now eligible for bus funding
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In Person
4th Grade Transfer Station Field Trips are available again. Learn first-hand what happens to their recyclables, garbage and compostables at a working material recovery facility and transfer station.
Field Trips - Virtual
Facilitated Virtual 4th Grade Transfer Station Field Trips share the journey of waste with your students.
In-School Programs
StopWaste educators will work with you and your students to engage in project based learning at your school.
Updated Fall 2025
Grant & Scholarship Opportunities
The STEM Opportunity Fund (open from August 11 -September 28, 2025) includes 3 grants: STEM field trips (max $5,000), STEM programs/projects (max $10,000) and one time STEM events (max $25,000).
The goal of the STEM Opportunity Fund is to provide funding for events and experiences
that close the student STEM equity gap in the Greater Bay Area.
These grants are open to nonprofits, educators, districts, and county offices of education in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Benito, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, and Sonoma counties.
Grant & Scholarship Opportunities (continued)
Synopsys Outreach Foundation's Building STEM Classrooms program seeks to provide educators with access to essential STEM materials. Educators within our service counties are eligible to apply and have SOF purchase $200 of STEM supplies for their classroom. These will be shipped directly to the educator, via Amazon.
Updated Fall 2025
Now taking reservations for the 2025-26 school year
Field Trips - In-Person
The Tech Interactive offers dozens of hands-on, collaborative, problem-solving activities trips for students from elementary to high school. Watch as your learners reimagine a sustainable city, build a robot, break a cyber code, experiment with microbes, or construct electrical circuits.
If your school is designated as Title I, admission is free & subsidies are available to help with other costs.
Professional Development
The Tech's professional learning focuses on Design Challenge Learning methodology, which engages participants in design challenges and provides facilitation methods for problem-solving with your own students in ways that align with your program goals.
Updated Fall 2025
Professional Development
Understanding Global Change: Explore phenomena and processes that shape our changing world, including causes and solutions to climate and environmental change. Find tools for planning phenomena-based units and making Earth system models.
Understanding Science: How science really works, an inside look at principles, methods, and motivations of science plus a suite of teaching resources.
Understanding Evolution: Find essential science content about evolution and how it works along with a searchable database of classroom resources.
Updated Fall 2025
Field Trips - In-Person
The Watershed Project's (TWP) K-12 programs bring students to local parks or restoration sites, where K-8th grade students will explore nature and/or participate in watershed stewardship activities.
TWP's mission is to provide children access to the outdoors at no cost. TWP prioritizes Title 1 schools and students from disadvantaged communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
In-School Programs
TWP offers K-12 watershed education programs, prioritizing students in Contra Costa and Alameda counties. The K-8 grade programs focus on our connection to a local watershed, biodiversity and interdependence, and green infrastructure and resilience.