Attention, teachers of secondary gifted kids: Receive some of the best ideas and lessons developed by master teachers, in this book by Joel McIntosh. Both this and its sequel, 10 More Ideas for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Middle School & High School, feature ideas for starting mentorship programs, teaching history using scientific surveys, producing documentaries, and more.
This book contains lesson plans, maps, facts, words and phrases, and activities are provided for 15 countries on six different continents helping students learn about countries and cultures around the world. Other curriculum areas are incorporated in the activities provided along with teaching notes, blackline maps, extension activities, a list of foreign words and phrases, and a bibliography of fiction and non-fiction books for each country to help to organize the study.
This book is part of the "Challenging Units for Gifted Students" series designed to help teachers provide the stimulating curricula that will nurture this potential in school. This book includes units that ask students to develop strong personalities for their main characters while writing mysteries, to study Freud's psychoanalytic theory and then analyze a classic novel using what they've learned, to focus on writing from a specific point of view, and to increase their appreciation for poetry by studying famous poets.
This book is part of the "Challenging Units for Gifted Students" series designed to help teachers provide the stimulating curricula that will nurture this potential in school. The units presented in this series are based on research into how gifted students actually think differently from their peers. This math book includes units that ask students to develop a financial portfolio; use math, science, engineering, technology, and art to design and build a miniature golf course; develop games based on probability; and run a real-life small business.
This book provides educators with time-saving teaching strategies and lesson ideas based on ease of implementation, ability to modify and inherent opportunities for differentiation. Through years of working with teachers the authors, Dr. Cheryll M. Adams and Dr. Rebecca L. Pierce, pass along four classroom components focused on including differentiated learning strategies, anchoring activities, classroom management, and differentiated assessment. The book also includes templates and sample lessons that can be used to develop customized materials, along with comments from teachers who have used the strategies.
The three volumes of the Five in a Row curriculum provide 55 lesson plans covering social studies, language, art, applied math and science. Designed for a homeschool setting, these lessons would also be appropriate in a conventional school. Although the original Five in a Row was designed for children ages 4 to 8, families of profoundly gifted children will find these guides more appropriate for the preschool years. The accompanying Five in a Row website offers sample lessons, an online newsletter, and curriculum user discussion boards.
The creative lessons covered in this book by master teachers cover all of the core academic areas for grades K-6. Lessons include standards-based ojectives, interdisplinary connections that can be explored and discussed amd assessments strategies for each unit of instruction.
In addition to the 12 model lessons provided, this book from Sandra Kaplan and Michael Cannon, includes a step-by-step guide to developing lessons that emphasize depth and complexity. All of the materials focus on ways to align the middle school curriculum wtih established national standards and offer strategies to evaluate learner achievement.
Order in the Court: A Mock Trial Simulation gives students the opportunity to conduct a trial based on a classic fairytale in order to develop their courtroom skills. After developing the necessary vocabulary, students participate in the trial of Ms. Petunia Pig v. Mr. B. B. Wolf. Students not only learn the concepts, but they also learn valuable teamwork and time management skills. Designed for students grades 6-8, the unit culminates in a full mock-trial enactment.
This unique book uses picture books to teach elementary students math concepts. Author Colleen Kessler feels strongly that all students should be challenged to experience and learn new things every day. She covers problem solving, geometry, algebra, measurement and probability. Grades 2-4.
This book makes the case that project-based learning is ideal for the gifted classroom, focusing on student choice, teacher responsibility, and opportunities for differentiation. The book guides teachers to create a project-based learning environment in their own classroom, walking them step-by-step through topics and processes such as linking projects with standards, finding the right structure, and creating a practical classroom environment. Project-Based Learning for Gifted Students also provides helpful examples and lessons that all teachers can use to get started.
Ready-to-Use Differentiation Strategies introduces various activities and strategies that can be implemented in any content area in grades 6–8. Each differentiation strategy encourages higher level thinking and intellectual risk taking while accommodating different learning styles. This book also provides templates that can be used to develop new lessons using each strategy. Designed for students grades 6-8, Ready-to-Use Differentiation Strategies provides an easy-to-use way to begin differentiating for all students in the classroom.
This book by Carolyn Coil, shows how to put differentiation into practice with practical, time-saving methods. Coil provides 49 ready-to-use differentiated topic lessons and units that include hundreds of activities. From map skills and space exploration, to early settlers, this wonderful resource provides you with the hands-on lessons and units that can be used right away or modified to meet special requirements.
In Super Smart Math challenges, author Rebecca George helps students to think critcally while providing activities and problems that become increasingly difficult as the students progress through each section. Organized by mathematical topics for grades 5-8.
Edward Zaccaro presents this book full of classroom lessons, readings and discussion starters. It reveals the things our future mathematicians and scientists must know in order to prevent tragedies such as the Challenger explosion and the failure of the Mars Orbiter.
This best-seller by Barbara Meister Vitale, provides sixty-five practical, easy-to-follow lessons to develop the much ignored right-brain tendencies of children. Her methods have been successfully demonstrated at workshops, in-service training sessions, and at several major educational conventions nationwide.
The book by Ben Reynolds contains specific lesson plans, student assignments, and criteria and suggestions for evaluation of student work. The book contains the complete content of the first writing courses for verbally talented youth designed by the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University in the early 1980's. This course was designed originally for 7th grade students who scored 430 or above on the verbal section of the SAT.
Grades 4-8 will gain insight from this book offering practical questions to facilitate Socratic-style discussions and explorations of literary concepts found within poems. Author, Susan Lipson, provides 25 original poems as prompts for students to use as inspiration for their own poetry and prose.
This online K-12 curriculum service allows home educators and teachers to access thousands of unit studies, lesson plans, and worksheets. The website also allows educators to communicate and interact with each other.
ProQuest offers a growing number of classroom-focused, subscription-based research tools. Many of these education solutions offer elementary, middle, and high schools content that is reading level-linked (lexiled), supports 21st-century information literacy, and helps differentiate instruction across all K-12 curriculum areas. The Educator Tools section connects the school community to a growing collection of hands-on lesson plans and tools to make use of ProQuest database solutions in a learning setting.
This online curriculum site has more than 2,000 free lesson plans for grades Pre-K through 12. You first choose the subject you are interested in, then choose the grade level. In addition to lesson plans are teacher discussions, mailing lists, projects, worksheets and more.
This online teaching tool uses material from the United States National Archives. The website allows users to find and create interactive learning activities with primary-source documents that promote historical thinking skills. The website also endeavors to teach students about working with primary sources.
On this website, find a teacher's guide to Google products, including basic information about each tool, examples of how educators are using them, and lesson ideas.
Hotchalk Lessn Plans Page has more than 4,000 free lesson plans as well as Teacher Discussion Forums.
PhysicsQuest is a story-based activity that exposes middle school students to the fun and relevance of science. PhysicsQuest aims to teach middle school students physics concepts, but its overarching goal is to give them a positive experience with physics.
A free PhysicsQuest kit will be sent to registered 6-9th grade physical science classes, home school groups, science clubs, and after-school programs. The kit includes a user's manual and materials for four physics experiments.
Smithsonian’s History Explorer provides hundreds of free online resources for teaching and learning American history. The site is designed for use by K-12 teachers and students, afterschool program providers and families. The website focuses on using historical artifacts and items to teach American history.
This website is an open marketplace where teachers buy and sell original teaching materials. It's mission is to make teachers' lives easier by bringing together those who create curricula with those who are seeking fresh new approaches in the classroom.
This website offers resources for teachers including: lessong plans, thematic units and printable worksheets.
This website features differentiated activities in all content areas. For students the site offers additional/alternate activities if a classroom activity is too easy or too hard. For parents, there is information about the gifted and how to advocate for your student in the classroom. For teachers, there is information about the gifted, differentiation, and lesson plans.
Busy Teacher's Cafe is a K-6 resource website for busy teachers where you can find resources, ideas, lessons, free printables and more.
This organization provides resources and professional development opportunities for elementary and secondary school teachers, with the goal of furthering geography education throughout the State of Colorado. They offer lesson plans, maps, and other information, such as articles and links to similar organizations.
After E. D. Hirsch’s book, Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know catapulted to unexpected, bestseller status in 1988, parents and teachers alike wanted practical guidance in how to ensure that children would acquire the foundation of knowledge, needed to become culturally literate adults. For teachers, the Core Knowledge Sequence was created to provide this guidance, and hundreds of lessons plans can be downloaded for free from this website. The What Your — Grader Needs to Know series, based on the Sequence, was later designed especially for parents.
From Discovery Channel's Education website, Classroom Resources has hundreds of original lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school students. Borrow them as-is or use them to spark your own lesson plans.
This free curriculum website provides educators with lesson plans and web links for the humanities, including: arts and culture; literature and language arts; foreign languages; and, history and social studies. This site is a valuable resource for educators looking for creative ways to better teach the humanities. This educational partnership brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to the classroom.
eGFI seeks to identify and gather in one place the most effective engineering education resources available to the K-12 community. From comprehensive data on outreach programs to profiles of “cool” engineers to hundreds of links and readings related to engineering education, eGFI offers useful, easily accessible materials specifically tailored to students’ and educators’ interests.
This website, which is non-profit, was created with the idea of providing easy to navigate resources for parents and educators of gifted and creative children.
This website has an array of educational resources, including lesson plans, teacher resources, homework links, critical thinking activities and specific subjects of study.
This website from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) offers an endless supply of information on various topics with special sections for kids and teachers. The teacher section has thousands of lesson plans and activities. The TeacherLine section lists online professional development opportunities.
This is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.
This website offers articles and editorials about various topics, such as literature, music and math. The website also provides subscription-based test preparatory services and practice examinations.
This website provides teachers with standards-based lesson plans and resources covering every core K-12 subject, grade level and class period. Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. With the goal of improving student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond, this site provides high-quality content and extensive professional development training. There are separate sections for educators, students and parents. This free, digital learning platform is built upon the merger of two acclaimed programs Verizon MarcoPolo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network.
This site is an online version for kids of the popular Time news magazine. It has stories covering some limited current events condensed for younger kids as well as some fun stories about entertainment news.
This page on Renzulli.com shows educators how to use virtual field trips to excite and motivate students. The organizers have catalogued outstanding virtual field trips in a wide variety of content areas.