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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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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.

Climate Change and Organisms

Use QUEST televison and radio stories in your classroom to illuminate current effects of climate change on plants and animals.

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.

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.

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.

Nanotechnology Educator Guide

Use multiple QUEST media resources to explain the physics behind nanotechnology and to show real-life examples of its use.

Zeppelins Resurrected Educator Guide

Use the Zeppelins Resurrected story in your classroom to help students understand physics.

Asteroid Hunters Educator Guide

Find standards-based resources for using QUEST television and radio stories about asteriods in your science classroom.

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.

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.

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.

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