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Educational Materials

This page includes easy links to pages on our website that we feel teachers will find beneficial.

Curriculum: Village, Cemetery, Civil War and Natural Communities Quest models.

Publications: books written by the Valley Quest staff to help you with your work.

How to make a quest

How to make a book/journal: how to make a book or journal for students to use with the Valley Quest project

How to make a stamp: a detailed look at how to make rubber stamps, including materials and designs

Bibliography: a large list of books that are related to Valley Quest's mission. Titles are sorted by : Natural History, Cultural History, Educational Resources, Sense of Place, Children's Literature, and Letterboxing in the UK.

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.

Virtual Quest: an on-line 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 try out the Virtual Quest.

Workshops: Click here for dates and details on our Workshops for Teachers

 

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.
-Lynn Talamini, Peacham Elementary School Teacher

 

 

 

 

 


Valley Quest is a program of Vital Communities

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