Make your city your outdoor classroom with the help of the Urban Park Rangers and The Natural Classroom: People, Place, and Parks! This exciting series of hands-on programs lets you explore the natural world of New York City’s parks with your students.

Nature centers are in–park community centers for public education, recreational activities, and environmental studies. The centers serve as starting points for walking tours and workshop sites for educational programs. They have exhibits highlighting the diversity of our landscape and an abundance of informational written material like trail maps and nature center brochures.

Come visit the Urban Park Rangers at Van Cortlandt Nature Center in the Bronx, Fort Totten Visitors Center in Queens, and Blue Heron Nature Center on Staten Island!

The Brooklyn Public Library can arrange for visits to any of its branches for for librarians to visit schools. Its list of educator programs is here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/learn/educators

In addition, the library’s Center for Brooklyn History can arrange field trips and class visits. Information about the CBH is here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/cbh/education/about

The Queens Public Library has programs for schools to visit any of its branches or for librarians to visit schools. The library has a mobile bookmobile. And it has a Discovery Center at its main branch.

NYC DEP offers a wide range of free programs and resources about New York City’s environment for pre-Kindergarten–12th grade students and teachers, college students, and non-formal educators.

FDNY has a Fire Safety Education Program that can provide:

• Presentations at local schools and community centers in New York City.

• Planned visits to New York City firehouses or EMS stations. 

• Hands-on practice inside the Department's Mobile Fire Safety Experience Trailer.

• Community outreach at events, such as street fairs, parades and more.

• Visits from Hotdog, the FDNY fire safety mascot, or Siren, the FDNY life safety mascot.

Sanitation provides community outreach to educate New Yorkers about recycling, Curbside Composting, and other sanitation programs.

They speak at schools, have Touch-a-Truck events, and give presentations.

And the Sanitation Foundation even has a museum and other educational programs.

GrowNYC is an environmental nonprofit serving New Yorkers and working to improve our City, environment, and food system.

The Historical Society and the New York State Unified Court System are dedicated to increasing the public’s understanding of how the courts work. Throughout the State, Society members and court staff engage in activities that promote public awareness about the judicial system.

Visit their website for information on how to arrange a guided tour of local court facilities located throughout New York. In addition, a member of the Historical Society member, including a lawyer or judge and visit your classroom.

The signature Cool Culture Family Access Programpartners with 90 cultural institutions and more than 450 early childhood programs across all New York City’s five boroughs. The Cool Culture Family Pass—distributed through its Family Access Program network of public schools and early childhood centers—opens the door for over 50,000 families to freely explore museums, festivals, and cultural activities without financial barriers.

TDF’s Education programs introduce the performing arts to students in a meaningful way. Our award-winning offerings facilitate personal connections to shows and to each other.

See how TDF Education programs align with the NYC Department of Education Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts: Theatre K-12. And meet TDF’s amazing Teaching Artists.

Since 1992, Lincoln Center Theater's Education department has brought teaching artists to New York City's classrooms and used the power of theater to ignite the imagination.

Urban Advantage enhances public school science education through partnerships with schools, teachers, and families. We align with the Next Generation Science Standards, Ambitious Science Teaching, and the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education framework to support participating schools through school community professional learning at our eight partner institutions.

The NYU Tandon Center for K12 STEM Education runs innovative programs designed to cultivate curiosity and develop STEM skills for students. These programs provide transformative educational experiences for those who will benefit from access to high quality STEM education in an inclusive and accessible environment. Hands-on learning opportunities, mentorship, and advanced curriculum define the Center's initiatives, characteristics that ensure excellence in STEM education.Description goes here

STEM Kids NYC is an education nonprofit in New York, NY that offers Pre-K to 12 programs under science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Our organization aims to connect the current curriculum in schools and the urgent need for these institutions to prepare students for future STEM opportunities and for jobs that do not yet exist.

NYC H2O provides free Water Ecology and Engineering Field Trips to historic reservoirs and wetlands in all five boroughs for grades 2-12. These field trips meet and exceed NYC and NYS STEM curricular standards.

Each reservoir site has its own dramatic story of how it supplied the city with drinking water. Wetland sites demonstrate how nature protects our City from storm surges and manage stormwater to help the City keep waterways clean and become more resilient in adapting to climate change.

Con Edison has a variety of educational programs for NYC students and teachers.

As an organization, we are dedicated to forging new pathways in STEM. We live up to this promise by cultivating an inclusive community where students and professionals from around the world feel a sense of belonging and a shared commitment to harnessing the power of science for the good of humanity.

Programs include a High School Research Program, after school STEM mentoring, and partnership opportunities.

NYC Public Schools’ Sustainability Hub engages both facility and pedagogical staff, including the NYCPS Offices of STEM, Wellness, Career and Technical Education, District 75, and the Division of School Facilities to integrate programs into existing structures while also creating new education opportunities. The Office also partners with a diverse array of organizations to provide curriculum and programming to students and educators.