Educational Materials
- Curriculum
- We have created the following quest curriculum.
- Civil War Quest
- Village Quest
- Cemetery Quest
- Watershed Quest Unit
- Publications
- Making a Quest - Questing: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure Hunts
- Going on a Quest - Valley Quest Books (VQI VQII and Best of Valley Quest)
- How to make a quest
- Quest making instructions
- Questing: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure Hunts
- How to make a book/journal to put in your treasure box for visitors to sign in or for the quester to collect stamp impressions from the quest boxes they have found.
- How to make a stamp to put in your treasure box for questers to make an impression in their books to keep a record of the quests they have been on. Or for questers to be able to leave a unique impression in the journal they find in the treasure box. This is a detailed look at how to make rubber stamps, including materials and designs
- Going on a Quest with your class
- Consider making a field trip to a quest site. Here are some suggestions for science or social studies field trips. You can find these and more quests in the Best of Valley Quest.
- Science Field Trips - Use the quest site as an outdoor classroom, and supplement with readings, journaling, and age-appropriate field science activities.
- Wrights Mountain Quest, Bradford, VT
Northern Forest ecosystem - Esther Currier Quest, Elkins, NH
Wetlands and beaver habitat - Mink Brook Quest, Hanover, NH
Several habitats:field, brook and forest - Sally's Salamander Meander, Hartford, VT
A large vernal pool. - Lonesome Pine, Thetford, VT
Field, forest and wetland habitats, plus swimming. - Forest Quest, Woodstock, VT
Do it on your own; or join one of the quests led by marsh Billings Rockefeller national Historic park staff.
- Wrights Mountain Quest, Bradford, VT
- Social Studies Field Trips - These quests are located at important historical sites and museums.
- Ben Thresher's Mill, Barnet, VT
A well-preserved 19th century mill and blacksmith shop - Hartford Civil War Quest, Hartford, VT
A great outing before making a civil war quest in your town. See civil war quest info. - Saint-Gaudens Quest, Cornish, NH
Learn about art, and one of America's great sculptors - Center of Town Village Quest, Hartford, VT
Early settlement:1st meeting house, school, inn, mustering ground. See village quest info.
- Ben Thresher's Mill, Barnet, VT
- Virtual Quest
- The best way to explain a Quest is to do one. If you want to take students or group members on a Quest and are unable to participate in a Quest physically, then choose from the Miraculous Tree Virtual Quest or the Civil War Virtual Quest.
- Bibliography
- A list of books that you might find helpful. Titles are sorted by : Natural History, Cultural History, Educational Resources.
- Examples of Quests made with schools
- Dorset Elementary School - This site shows how Francis Pell Dechame's class in Dorset VT has successfully implemented the Valley Quest program and displays some of the results.
- See an example of how the village quest has been used.
- Another village quest example.
- See how the cemetery quest has been used
- View some sample Civil War Quests
Valley Quest offers students an opportunity to have ownership of their learning while respecting students' abilities to wonder and discover the place in which they live. It is tied to standards and provides them with opportunities for service learning.