Center for Science Teaching & Learning Programs
Center for Science Teaching & Learning at Tanglewood Preserve, 1450 Tanglewood Rd, Rockville Centre, NY 11570
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Center for Science Teaching & Learning Programs include school’s out classes where children have fed a goat, petted and learned about a python, and taken part in a Dino dig along with other STEM related things. The programs also include a dinosaur museum and dinosaur exhibit, science camps, workshops during school vacations and weekends, science-themed birthday parties, family programs, summer programs, school trip programs, and field trip and outreach program experiences. Additional events and offerings include an annual Halloween event called Spookyfest, a Dinosaur Carnival, a dinosaur easter egg hunt, and Nature’s Kids Nursery School, which has the only science and nature-based curriculum of any nursery school on Long Island.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
The Center for Science Teaching and Learning is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization that was founded over 25 years ago. Its mission is to encourage science learning and literacy in everyone, children as well as adults. CSTL is operated by a staff that includes scientists, certified teachers, former school administrators, and skilled artists and craftsmen, and it creates signature corporate programs and delivers educational workshops locally and around the world. CSTL also helps to run a number of national and international programs aimed to get adults and young adults involved and engaged in STEM.
Parent and visitor reviews describe school’s out classes where a child fed a goat, petted and learned about a python, and did a Dino dig along with other STEM related things, and they describe the site as a great place for project based learning opportunities. Reviews also mention that the dinosaur exhibit has much to learn and see, that the live animals are kept in very clean environments, and that there is a museum and zoo with dinosaurs and live animals. Other reviews note that staff were very helpful and kind in a sold-out situation and describe the experience as wonderful and so much fun, with very knowledgeable people.
Last updated May 28, 2026.
• Ages: 3–18 years old
The Center for Science Teaching and Learning is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization that was founded over 25 years ago. Its mission is to encourage science learning and literacy in everyone, children as well as adults. CSTL is operated by a staff that includes scientists, certified teachers, former school administrators, and skilled artists and craftsmen, and it creates signature corporate programs and delivers educational workshops locally and around the world. CSTL also helps to run a number of national and international programs aimed to get adults and young adults involved and engaged in STEM.
Parent and visitor reviews describe school’s out classes where a child fed a goat, petted and learned about a python, and did a Dino dig along with other STEM related things, and they describe the site as a great place for project based learning opportunities. Reviews also mention that the dinosaur exhibit has much to learn and see, that the live animals are kept in very clean environments, and that there is a museum and zoo with dinosaurs and live animals. Other reviews note that staff were very helpful and kind in a sold-out situation and describe the experience as wonderful and so much fun, with very knowledgeable people.
Last updated May 28, 2026.
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