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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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san andreas fault tour.

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.

hand pointing out bee with tracking device in honeycomb

Better Bees Educator Guide

What does it take to make a garden grow? Water, sunlight, good soil -- and honeybees! Boost your background knowledge about pollination and help students understand the good side of bees.

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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