School Partnerships
A single school partners with Odyssey Discovery to bring Explorer into classrooms across grade bands and subject areas — a full year of scientist experiences and classroom investigations.
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Field Notes: Explorer
Students don't just learn about science. They meet the scientists and conservationists discovering it.
Field Notes: Explorer is the flagship Odyssey Discovery classroom experience. It connects students with working scientists and real discoveries through live scientist experiences, stories from the field, and classroom investigations.
What's inside
Real scientists. Real research. Real questions.
Explorer is an ongoing partnership, not a one-time classroom visit. Students build a relationship with working researchers across a full year of science discovery experiences.
Scientist conversations
Live experiences with researchers actively doing the work — polar science, marine biology, wildlife, climate, conservation.
Real research stories
The people, the places, the discoveries — brought into the classroom in the researchers' own voices.
Classroom investigations
Hands-on activities that echo the scientists' methods, tuned for the topics your students are already studying.
Student questions & engagement
Every session centers what students want to know. The scientist answers them directly.
Educator resources
Prep materials, discussion guides, and follow-up activities so teachers can build on every experience.
In practice
Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School
JGEMS is a conservation-focused middle school whose entire curriculum is built around environmental science. Over a semester, their students met working field scientists whose research matched exactly what they were learning in class — polar bears, tigers, wetlands restoration.
"Every teacher in the program asked us how to keep it going next year. That's the metric that matters."
— Curriculum Lead, Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School
Our scientist network
Working field researchers ready to meet your students.
Our growing network includes scientists across the fields shaping our understanding of the planet — from polar sea ice to marine ecosystems to conservation biology.
| Field | Example topics |
|---|---|
| Arctic & polar science | Sea ice, polar bear habitat, permafrost |
| Marine science | Ocean acoustics, coral ecosystems, marine mammals |
| Wildlife biology | Large carnivore behavior, endangered species, migration |
| Wetlands & freshwater | Restoration ecology, watershed health, amphibians |
| Climate & atmospheric science | Carbon flux, temperature modeling, extreme weather |
| Conservation biology | Habitat fragmentation, rewilding, human-wildlife conflict |
How Explorer comes to your students
Schools and districts partner with Odyssey Discovery.
Explorer is built for ongoing, scalable partnerships — not one-off sessions. Schools and districts partner with Odyssey Discovery to give students continuing access to authentic science experiences and the researchers behind them.
District Partnerships
Multi-school district partnerships coordinate Explorer across buildings — with documented outcomes, standards alignment, and multi-year programming.
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Sponsored Science Access
Foundations, corporations, and philanthropic partners underwrite Explorer for schools and districts that couldn't otherwise access it.
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Sponsor a school
Bring Explorer to a classroom that needs it.
Sponsors help bring authentic science experiences to classrooms by supporting student access to researchers, stories, and field-based learning. If your organization funds STEM, conservation, or education access, we'd love to talk.