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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.
Alzheimer's Educator Guide
Use this educator guide with multiple QUEST stories to help your students understand possible genetic links to Alzheimer's as well as related diseases.
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Climate Change and Organisms
Use QUEST televison and radio stories in your classroom to illuminate current effects of climate change on plants and animals.
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California at the Tipping Point Educator Guide
How is California changing as a result of climate change? Use this video and Educator Guide to show students the environmental impacts of our altered climate.
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Geothermal Educator Guide
Use multiple QUEST media stories to teach your students about how scientists are using heat from deep within the Earth to generate electricity.
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State of Thirst Educator Guide
Use this QUEST story to help your students understand the water cycle, the history of California's water distribution, and reasons for the increased pressure on California's water supply.
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Nanotechnology Educator Guide
Use multiple QUEST media resources to explain the physics behind nanotechnology and to show real-life examples of its use.
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Zeppelins Resurrected Educator Guide
Use the Zeppelins Resurrected story in your classroom to help students understand physics.
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Asteroid Hunters Educator Guide
Find standards-based resources for using QUEST television and radio stories about asteriods in your science classroom.
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Chasing Beetles, Finding Darwin Educator Guide
Give your students a modern-day look at how scientists continue to use Darwin's theories in their research.
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How Edison Got His Groove Back Educator Guide
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.
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Visit the KQED Science Education Workshop Web Site
Visit the KQED Science Education Workshop Web site to find additional information about upcoming and past QUEST trainings including workshop templates, agendas, and links.
Interested in scheduling a short presentation for a group of science educators on QUEST multimedia resources or on creating Explorations? Email us at ScienceEd@kqed.org.
Educational Services Newsletter
Subscribe to our monthly update on new media, events and resources for classroom and informal educators. Topics include science, art and social studies.
Educator Tools
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Why Use Multimedia in Science Education? (82Kb) - For use with any media segment.
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QUEST Education (updated for '08) (92Kb) - Introduction to QUEST’s educational offerings for teaching and learning.
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How to Use Science Media for Teaching and Learning (144Kb) - Strategies for using media in educational settings.
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Educational Trek Activity (Ed Trek) (280Kb) - A form of “questing,” the creation of community treasure hunts.
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Segment Summary Student Sheet (492Kb) - For use with any media segment.
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Personal Response Student Sheet (492Kb) - For use with any media segment.
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Science Multimedia Analysis (82Kb) - For use with any media segment.
Major funding is provided by the National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Foundation, and The Amgen Foundation. Additional support is provided by the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, Ann S. Bowers - The Robert Noyce Trust, the Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation, and the Vadasz Family Foundation.
