Program Themes

Vision Statement

QUEST is committed to providing each student a nurturing and supportive environment that encourages advanced learning, problem solving, and critical and creative thinking, combined with innovative learning in thematic-based studies.

Grade 4: Exploration

• Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Renzulli’s Enrichment Triad Model
• Group themed project

Grade 5: Communication

• Self-Selected Topic
• Interest-Based Independent Investigation (Type III Project)
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Creative Contribution to Field of Study
• Authentic Audience (Type III Fair)

Grade 6: QUEST Identity

• Learning Styles: What do they mean and how do they affect learning?
• Analyzing and Application of 3-Rings of Giftedness: Famous Person Project
• Research Process & Developing a Creative Product

Grade 7: Adolescent Brain Development

• Insight into the Adolescent Brain
  • Left and Right Hemisphere
  • Stress and the Brain
  • Social Conformity
• Student develops a creative product related to self-selected brain research
• Research Process & Developing a Creative Product

Grade 8: Legacy

• Personal/Family Legacy
• Historic Legacy
• QUEST Legacy
• Research Process & Developing a Creative Product