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Beautiful Feet Books

Beautiful Feet Books is a publisher of Rea Berg's History Through Literature, study guides, and a variety of children's literature.

Printed Materials: Books

20 Ideas for Teaching Gifted Kids in the Middle School & High School

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.

Instructional Units for Gifted and Talented Learners

The creative lessons covered in this book by master teachers, Mary Dyer, Oscar Figueroa, Mary Morris and Becky Newsom, 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.

Lessons From the Middle: High-End Learning for Middle School Students

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.

Picturing Math

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.

Standards-Based Activities and Assessments for the Differentiated Classroom

This book by Carolyn Coil, shows how to put differentiation into practice with practical, timesaving 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.

Super Smart Math - 180 Warm-Ups and Challenging Activities

Super Smart Math challenges 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.

The 10 Things All Future Mathematicians and Scientists Must Know (But Are Rarely Taught)

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.

Writing Instruction for Verbally Talented Youth: The Johns Hopkins Model

The book 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.

Writing Success Through Poetry

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.

Websites & New Media: Commercial

Free Spirit Publishing

Free Spirit produces award-winning gifted resources that help children and teens think for themselves, succeed in life, and make a difference in the world.

Great Potential Press (GPP)

This website is the on-line catalogue for Great Potential Press (formerly Gifted Psychology Press), a company that specializes in books for parents, teachers, counselors and educators of gifted and talented children. The titles cover guiding gifted and talented children, creativity, college planning, self-esteem, legal issues, smart girls, mentorship, leadership development, parent advice, and more.

Websites & New Media: Informational

PBS

This website from the Public Broadcasting Service offers an endless supply of information on various topics. Books, DVD's, and videos can be purchased. Teachers can access TeacherSource, which has more than 3,500 lesson plans and activities. One can also get their local PBS television listings as well.

TIME for Kids

This website is an online version of the popular news magazine for kids. It has news stories covering some limited current events condensed for younger kids as well as some fun stories about entertainment news, and some silly fun as well.