Community Treasure Hunts

Original date: February 18, 2013

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Presenter: Steven Glazer

Description: Quests are community treasure hunts that teach students how to see and value local treasures. The quest might focus on natural features (a watershed), cultural sites (an early cemetery), or perhaps the setting of a specific story (the beginnings of an industry).   They can be designed and adapted to explore a wide variety of environments; and quest-making integrates language arts, social studies, science, math and technology in a multi-sensory, experiential way. Quests incorporate core subjects into a wonderful experiential learning opportunity that students will remember throughout their lives.

Suitability: All formal and non-formal youth educators.

Steven Glazer helps schools, parks and communities connect people with the places they live. An internationally respected leader in the growing field of place-based education, he is the author of The Heart of Learning (Tarcher/Putnam, 1999), the editor of Valley Quest: 89 Treasure Hunts and Valley Quest II: 75 More Treasure Hunts, and co-edited Best of Valley Quest: Treasure Hunts to Special Places. He is the co-author (with Delia Clark) of Questing: A Guide to Creating Community Treasure Hunts (University Press of New England, 2004).  Steve directed the award-winning Valley Quest program for ten years; and consults internationally with groups interested in developing Questing and other place-based education programs. He serves on the faculties of Antioch New England Graduate School and the Center for Whole Communities. For more information visit www.poeticsofplace.com.