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CULTUREQUEST TEACHERS' GUIDE
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WELCOME TO CULTUREQUEST
CultureQuest involves students and
teachers engaged in inquiry-based classroom projects
that explore other peoples and cultures. Projects
are based on students’ questions and interests
and involve the focused, intensive study of one or
more aspects of the art, music, literature, religion,
values, daily life,customs and traditions of other
cultures. Students supplement traditional resources
with extensive use of the Internet, both for information
and for communication with knowledgeable adults and
peers in the country they are studying. Their completed
work becomes part of a class website, which may be
accessed at this site.
CultureQuest seeks to promote better
understanding and appreciation of other cultures,
strengthen inquiry, research and literacy skills while
providing students with technology skills for the
21st century.
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About CultureQuest
CultureQuest was created at
the Center for School Development
of the School of Education, The
City College of the City University of New York. It was
initially supported through a grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Additional support
was received from JPMorganChase, the USDOE’s
PT3 Program, and the America India Foundation.
As we are currently in the process of expanding the number
of independent CultureQuest sites, please contact
us if you would like to start a CultureQuest Program in
your city, state or country. PT3NOW
has recognized CultureQuest as a
best practice in technology integration.
CultureQuest Partners
with "ePALS"
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CultureQuest teachers
and students now have the opportunity to use child-safe
e-mail to support their CultureQuest
project activities. ePals is providing powerful communication
tools that provide teachers and students with their
own e-mail account, the ability for teachers to search
for contacts throughout the world, access to discussion
forums, and automatic translation in eight languages!
If you are intested in obtaining ePals for your class
CultureQuest project, please contact Dr. Sheila Gersh
at sgersh@ccny.cuny.edu.
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CultureQuest Update
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CultureQuest programs are currently starting
up in several countries around the world and in
eight states in the U.S. For further information,
contact, Jeane
Simon in Chile, Jacqueline
Lora Gomez in the Dominican Republic,
Bharat
Thakur in India, Esther
Feffer in Israel, Kyoko
Murikami Jun Sakamoto in Japan,
Ursala Vellego Morero in Spain
and Ulf
Akerberg in Sweden. In the
U.S. contact, Amy Hasty
in Alaska, David
Stoloff in Connecticut, Kim
McCord in Kansas, Robert
Leneway in Michigan, Sheila
Gersh in New York, Lisa
Schonberger in Pennsylvania,
Joyce Morris
in Vermont and Anne
Pierce in Virginia.
A brochure
was published and distributed to the Partners
and Advisory Board. A newsletter
will be published twice a year. The first issue
was sent to the Partners in early fall.
The staff continue
to do presentations and workshops for teachers
in NYC. The staff recently prepared a Teacher
Guide to assist those implementing the project.
A CultureQuest Advisory Board was formed and
will meet three times a year. One of its primary
goals is to help link the project to key resources
and people.
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