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Pre K Grade 12 Standards
Here are standards "designed to assist school districts in examining the quality of their programming for gifted learners." "Program Design," "Curriculum and Instruction," "Socio-Emotional Guidance and Counseling" and other parts of the...
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Teachers First: Differentiating Instruction: Ideas for Individual Differences
This source provides educators with information on the different types of students, and how to best help them learn and excel while in school.
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California Association for the Gifted & Talented: Home
CAG is an organization composed of "parents, educators, and community members" who wish to promote the needs and development of gifted children. The site provides information on grants and scholarships, access to the organization's...
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Odyssey of the Mind: From a Distance
Students use the Internet, books, and articles to research the Earth and its changes (tides, seasons, atmosphere, etc.), develop a "class exhibit about the Earth" and "a survey that includes five questions that will measure what the...
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Odyssey of the Mind: Clean Up Your Act
Students work in teams and give a presentation depicting the causes of pollution, the ways pollution affects the environment, suggestions for reducing pollution, and ideas for making things out of trash. Click on "Activity Summaries" and...
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Odyssey of the Mind: Digging for Clues
Students explore archeology, dating methods, and the skills and technology needed to be an archeologist through the three activities provided. Activities require research of a historical period, class discussion and creative thinking.
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Odyssey of the Mind: Second Time Around
What is the recycling process? Why is it important to recycle? Through the activities on this page, students explore the answers to these questions, encourage others to recycle, present skits on the effects of recycling, and more.
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Odyssey of the Mind: Up to Speed
Students "learn about vehicles, velocity, angles, and energy," as they participate in a variety of creative and hands-on activities, like building adjustable ramps, researching modes of transportation, and predicting "what transportation...
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The History of Gifted and Talented Education
Check out a "Timeline of Key Dates in Gifted and Talented Education," which starts in the late 19th century and provides notes on the development of intelligence testing, the publication of giftedness resources, and the establishment of...
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Braingle: Mentalrobics Vocabulary
Find new words to exercise your brain and expand your vocabulary. This website provides a "word of the day," complete with definition and example sentence.
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Odyssey of the Mind: Cantilever Structure
Using 50 toothpicks and clay, teams will build a structure "that will sit on a table behind a boundary line" and will "cantilever, as far as possible beyond the boundary line without touching the table."
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Odyssey of the Mind: Tug O War
Students work in groups as they use everyday objects (tissue, toothpicks, mailing label, straw, rubberband, Styrofoam cup, paper) to create "links that will be joined together to form a chain in a tug-of-war."
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Odyssey of the Mind: Tower of Pasta
Students work in groups to create a structure out of various types of pasta that will be tested on both height and strength.
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Odyssey of the Mind: Air Express
Students use test their creativity and logic in the science-class activity through which they create a device that is powered by a deflating balloon.
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Challenging Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom
"How do teachers develop an instructional plan that will be challenging, enlightening, and intriguing to students of different abilities?" Find the answer to this question and sources for further reading.
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Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students
What can teachers to do encourage gifted students to exhibit creativity in the classroom? This article provides some suggestions and also list ways that adults often "kill" creativity in children.
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Help4 teachers.com: Advantages to Layered Curriculum
This article explores the many benefits behind layering the curriculum to meet the learning needs of all the students in your classroom.
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Kid Source on Line: Teaching English to Gifted Students
Find answers to several questions concerning gifted students and how they should be taught English: "How should gifted students be identified?" "What specific resources exist for teaching English and language arts to gifted/talented...
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Hoagies' Gifted: Differentiating Language Arts for High Ability Learners
This article outlines ways in which gifted students must be challenged in literature, writing, foreign language, and other types of language arts.
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Macomb Intermediate School District: Gifted Children
Part of a Michigan school site, this page offers several definitions of giftedness, lists characteristics and behaviors of gifted students, and confirms ways of addressing their special needs.
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Braingle: Optical Illusion Brain Teasers
Check out the variety of optical illusions provided at this site. Fool your eyes with "Chair or Block," "Angles or E," "Old or Young Woman," "Face or Vase," and others.
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Braingle: Probability Brain Teasers
Check out the variety of probability brain teasers at this site, which you can sort by popularity and difficulty.
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Braingle: Mentalrobics Creativity
Exercise your brain and creative thinking. Find daily questions, games, and ideas that will force you to brainstorm, create, imagine, and use your creativity on your own or in a classroom setting.
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Braingle: Letter Equations Brain Teasers
The letter equations at this site test your critical thinking skills as well as your knowledge of facts dealing with a variety of subjects: geography, music, history and more.