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QUEST for Educators offers free, standards-based resources to help your curriculum come to life with real-world connections using QUEST media.

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Educator Guides

Discover interactive ways to supplement your curriculum with QUEST media; all Guides are designed for use in both formal and informal learning environments and include information about Bay Area organizations that offer topic-specific lesson plans, workshops, and field trips.

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passersby looking through an amateur telescope

Amateur Astronomers Educator Guide

Do your students think astronomy is only for "professionals"? Introduce them to the wide range of people that are studying the skies from their own homes.

Los Trancos OSP Educator Guide

Use this Exploration with your students as a virtual or real field trip, then create your own using Google Maps.

Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge Exploration

Don Edwards NWR Educator Guide

Use this Exploration with your students as a virtual or real field trip, then create your own using Google Maps.

illustration of pellet being hit by lasers

Super Laser at the NIF Educator Guide

Help your students understand fusion and the real-life implications it may have on how we produce energy in the future.

diagram of hydrocarbon molecule

Biofuels Educator Guide

Use QUEST video and audio in your classroom to help students understand the biochemistry behind alternative energy sources.

Bay Checkerspot Butterfly

Drive By Extinction Educator Guide

Students will learn about the bay checkerspot butterfly, where it lives, what it eats, and how cars have played a role in it’s population decline.

aerial view of salt ponds and bay

Salt Ponds to Wetlands Educator Guide

Use this story with your students to help them understand the importance of wetlands and how some Bay Area salt ponds are being restored.

kids erecting tent at campsite.

Tips to get the kids in your life out into nature

Here is a quick "cheat sheet" of helpful tips to keep "Nature Deficit Disorder" at bay with kids.

primitive hominid skull and human skull

Reverse Evolution Machine Educator Guide

Use this Educator Guide to help your students understand how using the DNA of organisms alive today can help uncover clues to extinct plants and animals.

computer screen with quake simulation

Earthquakes: Breaking New Ground Educator Guide

Earthquakes have always surprised us, but maybe they won't in the future. What if scientists could read the warning signs and predict major earthquakes before they struck? Use this QUEST story in your classroom along with additional ideas found in this Educator Guide.

Educator Tools

QUEST Educator Trainings

QUEST Education offers professional development support to educators through institutes at the start of the school year entitled Using QUEST Multimedia in the Middle and High School Science Classroom to Enhance 21st Century Skills in Teaching and Learning.

The educational leaders participating in the institutes also receive regular on-site implementation support from QUEST staff during the school year.

The deadline for submitting applications for the 2008-2009 school year has passed. Please check back in early spring of 2009 (or sign up for the QUEST newsletter!) for information on our trainings for the 2009-2010 school year.

  • Interested in scheduling a short presentation for a group of science educators on QUEST multimedia resources or on creating EdTreks and Explorations? Email us at ScienceEd@kqed.org.

Find additional information about upcoming trainings and register online.



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