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CA NGSS STEM Conferences

Presented by the Exploratorium’s Teacher Institute, the Institute for Inquiry, and the Tinkering Studio

Are you wondering how to integrate the California Next Generation Science Standards (CA NGSS) into your classroom? The Exploratorium’s daylong conferences feature a plenary session, a choice of three hands-on workshops, and activities teachers can use in their classrooms to engage students in CA NGSS learning experiences. Lunch is included, and teachers leave with handouts of the activities covered in all of the sessions. One (1) semester-unit of Continuing Education credit is also available for an additional fee (to be paid at the conference). 

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NGSS STEM Conference 2020
NGSS STEM Conference 2020

Saturday, March 7, 2020 • 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Systems science is all around us, and earth systems science in particular connects to all scientific disciplines. Get ready to engage with activities for your science classroom (grades 4–12) and explore the integration of earth systems science into your curriculum.


Past Conferences and Resources

6th NGSS STEM Conference
6th NGSS STEM Conference

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Science is all around us, and CA NGSS can help your students understand it. Join us as we engage in activities for your science classroom incorporating the three dimensions of NGSS.

5th NGSS STEM Conference
5th NGSS STEM Conference

Saturday, March 3, 2018

We traveled to a new dimension at our 2018 STEM Conference highlighting Dimension 1 of the California Next Generation Science Standards: Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). 

2017 NGSS STEM Conference
4th NGSS STEM Conference

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Math is the language of science. Learn to integrate mate into an NGSS classroom through engaging, hands-on activities.

3rd STEM Conference
3rd NGSS STEM Conference

Saturday, November 22, 2014

STEAM up your classroom by integrating art into activities that teach authentic STEM content that also supports the NGSS. By integrating art into STEM activities, you’ll engage students in their explorations of the natural world.

2nd Biannual NGSS STEM Conference
2nd NGSS STEM Conference

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Join us for another look at the integration of engineering into middle and high school science classrooms through a whole new suite of workshops and activiites.
1st NGSS STEM Conference

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Join us as we explore what it means to integrate engineering, as described by the Next Generation Science Standards, into middle and high school science classrooms.