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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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Edison recordings label.

How Edison Got His Groove Back

Use this QUEST story and Educator Guide to show students who the key players were in the invention of sound recording, how sound works, and why this new method of preserving early phonographic recordings is so important to society.

Eclipse

Eclipse Chasers Educator Guide

Excite students about eclipses with QUEST. Follow two scientists as they chase eclipses around the world and learn about a new invention to help capture photographic details of the Sun’s atmosphere.

Dark Energy and the Origin of the Universe Educator Guide

Enhance your lessons on the universe with two QUEST stories. Find background information, correlations to CA state science standards, and additional lesson plans.

sailboat with 'wind direction' superimposed on frame

Physics of Sailing Educator Guide

We know that a sailboat can travel with the wind, but what really makes a sailboat move? Join the QUEST crew aboard a sailboat in San Francisco Bay to learn about the physics of sailing.

cyber-gecko limb

Bio-Inspiration: Nature as Muse

Did you know that the idea for Velcro came from cockleburs? Since the 15th century, engineers have been looking to the natural world for design ideas.

hands full of pills.

WATER POLLUTION Educator Guide

Water pollution is the contamination of water resources by harmful wastes or toxins. This type of pollution can be dangerous to animals and plant populations in and around lakes, rivers, polluted groundwater areas or oceans, and can pose major problems for humans as well.

shake table

Bay Area Faults and Earthquakes

We live in earthquake country. Earthquakes are part of the geologic fabric of California. The Bay Area sits on a series of active faults that include the San Andreas, Calaveras, and Hayward. Of the three major fault systems, the Hayward is of most concern to geologists.

hills reflected in slough channel

Climate Change and Water Educator Guide

Use multiple QUEST media resources to show the local impact of climate change on our ocean and find out how scientists are studying our freshwater supply.

underwater test rig in tank

Acidic Seas Educator Guide

Help students understand the importance of using chemistry to study the marine environment.

plot of ocean predator tracks

Tagging of Pacific Predators Educator Guide

Find out what the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) tracking program entails and how it is helping scientists understand the migration patterns of many marine species.

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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