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 Fall 2024
Field Trips - Virtual
CRS teacher members are elligible to receive inviations to host scienists from our BASIS (Bay Area Scientists Inspiring Students) in their virtual classrooms.
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 2024
Professional Development
Self-paced six-week online course: Universal Design for Learning in Environmental Education
Statewide Conference for Environmental Educators: May 2-4, 2025 in Marin County
Weekly free webinars 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 2024
Reservations Begin August 12, 2024
Field Trips - In Person
Bay Area Discovery Museum's (BADM) school and community programs offer a variety of fun, hands-on, NGSS-aligned programs for your preschool - 5th graders at the museum, your school or community site.
In-School Programs
The Try It Truck is BADM's engineering-lab-on-wheels, bringing hands-on STEAM programming to your school, camp or library! K – 5th grade students will Think, Make, Try® through ideas and build creative problem-solving skills by asking questions, designing solutions and testing their ideas.
Scholarships & Grants
Each of BADM's programs offers scholarship pricing, which can be applied for directly in their booking forms. Scholarship pricing can be found on the BADM website and is reserved for Title-1 schools and/or sites serving large populations of low-income families (40% or higher).
Professional Development
The Bay Area Discovery Museum offers customizable professional development opportunities to a variety of audiences, including teachers, librarians, parents, and more!
Updated Fall 2024
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 2024
Registration Opens Sept. 3 for PORTS program
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 2024
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 Tourof 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, or fill out this form to schedule a lesson.
Updated Fall 2024
Registration for programming is open for the 2024-25 school year.
Field Trips - In-Person
Sign up now to book your spot for the 2024/25 school year!
Chabot offers two different packages for field trips.
1. Standard Visit (Exhibits + Planetarium Show + Live Science Show)
2. Workshop Package (Exhibits + Planetarium Show + Live Science Show + 60 min Workshop).
Their planetarium shows are also offered in Spanish and are available to field trip groups upon request.
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 2024
In-School Programs
The Alameda County Youth Engagement 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. Interested contact wrongsusan@gmail.com and temk74@icloud.com
Updated Fall 2024
Registration for programs starts August 2024
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.
Dates not yet set for 2024-25 School Year
Field Trips - In-Person
Youth Field Trips- During a 90-minute self-guided tour, youth witness demonstrations by artists and industry experts in areas including Glass Flameworking, Glass Blowing, Welding, Blacksmithing, Jewelry, Foundry and more! A Crucible field trip supports STEAM learning, putting math and science concepts into practice. Students witness firsthand how makers create the objects we use in day-to-day life using techniques, tools, materials, and applications of industrial arts.
Updated Fall 2024
Field Trips - In-Person
Pick from a wide range of topics for field trips. You can do a self-guided tour or participate in a hands-on science workshop or a wildlife experience.
In-School Programs
CuriOdyssey's mobile classroom can bring hands-on STEM lessons or wildlife experiences to your school
Updated Fall 2024
Registration Now Open
Field Trips - In-Person
East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) offers multiple nature and history-based field trips across our parks in Alameda and Contra Costa County. Most are free for public schools in these counties.
Field Trips - Virtual
Naturalist-led field trips are also offered in virtual formats. Visit the Educator Resources page for more information.
Updated Fall 2024
Field Trips - In-Person
5th Grade Water Education Field Trips Register your 5th grade class for a FREE water education field trip to an EBMUD watershed and water treatment plant to learn about the water supply, environmental stewardship, and water treatment.
High School Wastewater Field Trips Register your high school class for a FREE tour of EBMUD's Wastewater Treatment Plant to learn what happens to the dirty water from your toilet after it goes down the drain.
Bus Reimbursement - Partial-cost bus reimbursement is available for public schools. Full-cost bus reimbursement is available for Title I schools. Limited spots available.
Take virtual tours of a water treatment plant or the waste water treatment plant or of fossils found on EBMUD properties.
In-School Programs
School Assemblies - Register your school for an engaging water education assembly on topics including watershed stewardship, pollution prevention and water conservation.
To find additional EBMUD education resources visit ebmud.com/education
Updated Fall 2024
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 2024
Registration Opens August 15
Field Trips - In-Person
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. Off-site field trips and neighborhood nature walks are also available.
Updated Fall 2024
Registration Open Now
Field Trips - In-Person
Bring your students to a day at the Exploratorium to explore 600+ interactive exhibits! Field trips include introductory orientation, specialized drop-in activities/demonstrations, and the option to reach out in advance for specialized experiences. Click here for the Exploratorium's calendar of events.
Admission is free for Title I schools.
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.
Professional Development
The Exploratorium offers a variety of professional learning resources to support better teaching and better learning.
Get timely teacher resources, announcements, and perks delivered to your inbox with our Educator Newsletter.
Updated Fall 2024
Preregistration is open, proper registration starts soon!
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 2024
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 2024
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.
Headwaters is always applying for grants to help cover the costs. Please reach out to Meg Seifert (meg@headwatersscienceinstitute.org) to find out what money is available.
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:
- Meg Seifert (meg@headwatersscienceinstitute.org)
- Megan Joyce (mjoyce@headwatersscienceinstitite.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:
- Meg Seifert (meg@headwatersscienceinstitute.org)
- Chase Oishi (chase@headwatersscienceinstitute.org)
Professional Development
Headwaters offers classes/days on teaching student-driven research so teachers can help their students through the process of science.
For more information on Professional Development, contact:
- Meg Seifert (meg@headwatersscienceinstitute.org)
Updated Fall 2024
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 2024
Registration Now Open
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 2024
Fields Trips - Virtual
KQED Learn is a free platform for middle and high school students to tackle big issues and build their media literacy and critical thinking skills in a supportive environment. Youth can participate in one of our Youth Media Challenges and publish their media to our online showcase.
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 2024
Registration open Now
Field Trips - In-Person
Bringing your students to UC Berkeley’s public science center guarantees an enriching experience filled with discovery, exploration, and fun! As a leader in science education for over 50 years, they know how to engage and enthrall students with fun and unique interactive learning experiences.
Discover the math and science of music, explore cutting-edge biotechnology research, and more in thei standard field trip experience. Delve into their hands-on exhibits at your own pace and let your students’ curiosity be their guide!
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 2024
Field Trips - In-Person
To check on the status of taking a field trip to The Marine Mammal Center, visit their School Field Trip Page.
Stewardship Saturday - free monthly program for high school students
Youth Crew - 8-month long service-learning program for high school students. Applications are accepted in the fall.
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 2024
Registration for 2024-25 school year Now Open
Field Trips - In-Person
The Marine Science Institute provides hands-on marine science field trips or classroom visits for PreK-College.
To book a program, submit a programs booking form: https://www.sfbaymsi.org/school-programs-booking-form
In-School Programs
The Marine Science Institute provides hands on marine science education with live animals that visit your location.
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 2024
Field Trips - In-Person
Overnight and One Day environmental science programs take youth out of the classroom and into national parks.
Field Trips - Virtual
Learn and explore in a virtual classroom. Students will participate in interactive lessons that connect them to environmental science, national parks and the natural world in their own community.
Updated Fall 2024
Registration Now Open!
Field Trips - In-Person
Watersheds & Me Guided Gallery Visit (Grades 3 - 6)
How does a healthy watershed contribute to a healthy community? Students will investigate different California regions, observe what makes them similar and unique, and identify strategies to conserve water in their communities.
Temporary exhibits include:
- Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples (On view through Jan 2025)
- You Are Here: California Stories on the Map (On view through 2026)
Scholarships & Discounts
OMCA offers a 30% discount for Oakland Unified School District groups, and a 50% discount for Title I schools on all programs and self-guided visits during the school year.
A limited number of bus scholarships for Oakland and Richmond schools are available during the school year, which can be requested during registration. Priority is given to OUSD and Title I schools.
OMCA offers a 30% discount for Oakland Unified School District groups during summer visits.
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. 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. They can also invite local beekeepers to schools for classroom visits.
Updated Fall 2024
Scheduling open for 2024-25 School Year
Field Trips - In-Person
RAFT offers engaging, hands-on STEAM learning activities and design challenges led by experienced facilitators. Field trips include Interactive tours that teach students to learn to identify materials based on their attributes and think of potential uses that are applied to activities.
RAFT can offer discounts to Title I schools and in some instances grant money may be available.
Fields Trips - Virtual
RAFT offers a series of virtual opportunities focused on building a virtual community of makers and problem solvers using RAFT STEAM Project Kits and other resources in the classroom. They can provide individual project kits aligned to distance learning curriculum that can be used at home.
In-School Programs
RAFT provides both classroom and community events such as STEAM Showcases and family STEAM nights. At these events, we can provide STEAM learning kits, design challenge materials, and support staff to engage participants in hands-on STEAM activities.
Professional Development
RAFT's professional development opportunities are hands-on and provide real solutions for use in the classroom/learning environment. We tailor our PD to meet the specific needs of schools and districts.
Updated Fall 2024
Program Applications are open now for 2024-25 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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
Scheduling for 2024-25 School Year
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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
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 2024
Accepting grant applications from August 5 - September 29, 2024.
Grant & Scholarship Opportunities
The STEM Opportunity Fund (open from August 5-September 29, 2024) 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. Learn more here! https://outreach-foundation.org/programs/stem-classrooms/
Updated Fall 2024
Registration now open
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.
Field Trips - Virtual
STEMbassadors are volunteer professionals, students, and subject experts who engage with learners about real-world STEM experiences and career pathways. There are two types of STEMbassador sessions (all are virtual):
- Meet a STEMbassador: This session is informal and conversational. The STEMbassador will give a 5-10 minute presentation about who they are, including a bit about their personal history, path into STEM, current studies or work and career goals. Followed by Q&A with STEMbassadors.
- STEM Project Talk: In this type of session, the STEMbassador will give a 20-minute presentation about their current work or studies, giving students a sneak peek into a sample STEM project or cutting-edge research. Followed by Q&A from students.
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 2024
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 2024
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.