KQED Projects

The following projects – produced by KQED Television, Radio and/or Interactive – all offer collections of educator resources specifically designed to be used in conjuntion with the programming.


You Decide
KQED Interactive produced these popular online "devil's advocate" activities between 2001 and 2004. The intention of You Decide was to foster critical thinking around issues of national debate. Many of these issues continue to inspire contentious discussion. The lesson plans are intended to serve as evergreen resources for educators.


Spark
SPARK is a multiplatform arts project, co-produced by KQED and BAVC about Bay Area arts and artists and arts organizations, including a weekly TV program, a Web site, and an educational outreach project. SparkEd Educator Guides aim to help educators expand their arts knowledge and design engaged arts-based curricula. The Guides are intended to accomplish the Visual & Performing Arts and core curricula standards for K-12.


Bay Area Mosaic
Using educational documentaries as a starting point, Bay Area Mosaic provides K-12 educators and community-based organizations with workshops and online resources for teaching students how different cultures, current events and history shapes our community. Online lessons are correlated to California state standards for language arts, social sciences, American democracy, history and ethnic studies classes.


Not in Our Town Northern California
Not in Our Town, Northern California: When Hate Happens Here looks at five communities that are dealing with hate violence: Newark, Sacramento, Redding, San Francisco, and Anderson. The film's four segments focus on hate crimes that took place in these five communities between 1999 and 2004.


Coastal Clash
"Coastal Clash" is a one-hour documentary focusing on the urbanization of California’s coastline.


QUEST
QUEST puts the Bay Area under the microscope, exploring the stories and people that impact our local science, nature and environmental world. The largest multiple media content project in KQED history, it includes a weekly half-hour HD television program, weekly radio segments, an interactive website, and educational guides. With the expertise of its partners and the Bay Area community, QUEST brings audiences closer to world-class science centers, museums, and the natural beauty of our own open spaces. Discover whole new worlds at www.kqed.org/quest.


Gallery Crawl
Gallery Crawl is a monthly snapshot of current activity in the San Francisco Bay Area's thriving gallery scene. Featuring interviews with artists, gallerists and curators, the program profiles the latest exhibitions and provides a glimpse into the curatorial philosophy of each space.


Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures
A generation ago, Jacques-Yves Cousteau revealed the oceans' mysteries to millions of landlocked PBS television viewers, and inspired a groundswell of public awareness of the unique problems faced by the world's marine environments. Now, 30 years later, Jacques' son Jean-Michel Cousteau and his expedition team have set sail to explore dangerous and spectacular locales across the globe in the high-definition series, Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures.