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Curriculum Resources
"All students should be challenged to expereince and learn new things
every day..."
Colleen Kessler, in
Hands-on Ecology: Real-life Activities for Kids
-
 Advanced
Placement Classroom: Romeo and Juliet by R. Brigham Lampert (grades 7-12)
- User-friendly guide to teaching one of Shakespeare’s classic plays, at the
AP level. Includes reproducibles to supplement classroom debates,
projects, writings and more... Also
Compass
Constructions: Activities for Using a Compass and Straightedge by
Christopher M. Freeman (grades 5-8)
Activities that apply fundamental geometric concepts studied in class,
such as the definitions and properties of altitudes, angle bisectors,
perpendicular bisectors, parallel lines with transversals, parallelograms,
and other quadrilaterals...
The
Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in
Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action by
Cathryn Berger Kaye
Service learning in the curriculum, including ideas, activities, quotes, and
books to read... (grades K-12)
A
Kids' Guide to Helping Others Read & Succeed by
Cathryn Berger Kaye
Learn about literacy, and how you can help! (ages 6 and up, use with
or without
The Complete Guide...)
A
Kids' Guide to Hunger & Homelessness by
Cathryn Berger Kaye
Learn causes and effects, and what you can do to help... (ages 6 and up, use
with or without
The Complete Guide...)
Creating
Award-Winning History Fair Projects: The Complete Handbook for Teachers,
Parents and Students by Helen Bass (grades 6-12)
History fair contenders have not, until now, had a guidebook for their
efforts. All that is changed... Bass offers teachers details on
how to organize their own local history fair, and how to guide their
students through each step, including the research, writing, constructing
visual displays, and creating interactive dialogues. Worksheets and
keys, sample judging forms, and many more reproducible handouts are also
included...
Hands-on
Ecology: Real-life Activities for Kids by Colleen Kessler (grades 3-5)
Engage kids in practical hands-on classroom activities.
Environmental studies are a great way to introduce kids to science
field-work, and teach them important things about the world they live in,
while helping them understand, and perhaps shape, their future earth...
Hands-on
Physical Science: 75 Real-Life Activities for Kids by Laurie Westphal (grades
4-8)
Exciting classroom activities such as an examination of Newton s laws by
building Alka-Seltzer rockets, a lesson on energy through the design and
building of roller coasters, and a look at chemical and physical changes
through the creation of paper...
 Jacob’s Ladder Reading Comprehension Program by Joyce
VanTassel-Baska and Tamra Stambaugh (grades
2-3, 4-5, and 6-8)
Targets reading comprehension skills in all ability learners by moving
students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical
analyses of texts, using a field-tested method developed by the Center for
Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary. Students learn to
comprehend and analyze any reading passage after completing the activities
in these books. Great for all students, especially gifted students...
Michael
Clay Thompson Language Arts Curriculum
by Michael Clay Thompson, from Royal Fireworks
Press
 I
don't know how to explain Michael Clay Thompson's curriculum, except to
say... gifted students, no matter where their gifts lie, need
this curriculum. I had the honor of hearing Michael speak about his
Grammar Voyage and
The Magic Lens grammar
curricula and Practice Sentence
student workbook series... and I was enthralled. Please know, I am a
math-y and a computer geek - I do not do language arts, if I can help
it. But this curriculum made grammar interesting to me!
Word Within The Word offers middle
and secondary level, vocabulary-building curriculum that is like no other.
Sentence Island, Paragraph Town
and Essay Voyage form the elementary writing curriculum. And
there's much more... investigate all the
Michael Clay Thompson Language Arts
Curriculum
For videos of
Michael Clay Thompson's presentations, and to see why this math-geek is so
excited by his curriculum, view
Michael Clay Thompson Videos
More
Units of Instruction for Gifted Learners by Sonia Hood, Murray Peters,
Cindy Sheets, Telia Gilcrest, Connie Simons and Carissa Wiedle (grades 2-7)
Ready to use, field-tested gifted enrichment units, in math, science, and
interdisciplinary units. Each unit has 5-7 lessons, including all the
worksheets, teachers guides, keys, and extensions for each lesson...
Also
Units of Instruction for Gifted Learners by Diana Brigham, Jessica Fell,
Constance Simons, and Kathy Strunk
 On-the-Job
Math Mysteries: Real-Life Math From Exciting Careers by Marya Washington
Tyler (grades 4-8)
Exciting math word problems taken from real-world situations, from
interviews with people in unique professions, such as circus performers, a
bush pilot, and a railroad engineer, providing students with real-life
contexts for how math is used in people’s daily lives. Students will to help
solve their mathematical dilemmas...
The
Private Eye School: More One-Hour Mysteries for the Classroom by Mary
Ann Carr (grades 4-8)
Classroom-ready investigations meet Language Arts and Science and
Reasoning standards, while teaching kids to analyze and solve mysteries
logically while thinking outside the box...
Super
Smart: 180 Challenging Thinking Activities, Words, And Ideas for Advanced
Students by Stephen S. Young (grades 5-12)
These short, attention-getting mind stretchers serve to grab the students'
attention and create a frame of mind and an atmosphere of fun, curiosity, or
discovery conductive to getting kids off to a good start. There are three
hooks for each day: a vocabulary word, a thought for the day, and a critical
thinking hook...
Super
Smart Math: 180 Warm-Ups and Challenging Activities by Rebecca George
(grades 5-8)
Organized by mathematical topics, the book offers 180 days worth of
activities, problems, and critical thinking challenges that become
increasingly difficult...
Super
Smart Science: 180 Days of Warm-Ups and Challenging Activities by
Colleen Kessler (grades 5-8)
Teaching kids to think critically and flexibly is important, especially in
science. Kessler's Warm-Ups offer a new puzzle each day of the year,
with facts and details that are sure to capture the interest and imagination
of students. Each day begins with a "thought" from a great scientist,
then includes either a teaser or a quick activity, either hands-on or for
the students to observe and hypothesize...
 Strategies
for the Tech-Savvy Classroom by Diane Witt (grades 4-8) (or directly
from Prufrock)
Each volume contains 24 stories that encourage divergent thinking to
explain. Students ask yes/no questions, and attempt to figure out the
"twist" that explains everything... (Ten volumes in the set)
Stories
with Twists by Thomas Milton Kemnitz (grades 4-12)
Each volume contains 24 stories that encourage divergent thinking to
explain. Students ask yes/no questions, and attempt to figure out the
"twist" that explains everything... (Ten volumes in the set)
Supreme
Court Decisions: Scenarios, Simulations, and Activities for Understanding
and Evaluating 14 Landmark Court Cases by Jeffery Socks
Students will use these cases to learn how to... create an Amicus Curiae
Brief, participate in a Debate, write a Letter to the Editor, create a Flow
Chart, Mind Mapping, Venn Diagram or Multimedia Presentation, conduct an
Interview, and many more activities. 14 landmark cases from 1819 to
1969...
 William & Mary's
Center for Gifted Education Curriculum Units
Science, Language Arts, and more curriculum units for gifted students, including
"Acid, Acid Everywhere" and "Electricity City."
Check the
Literature Web and
Resource Guide to Mathematics Curriculum for High Ability Learners in Grades
K-8 (requires Adobe Reader)
Or
purchase individual units published through
Prufrock Press:
 Word
Roots: Learning the Building Blocks of Spelling and Vocabulary (or from
Amazon:
Word Roots
Level A and
Word Roots Level B) by Cher Blanchard, from The
Critical Thinking Company
Recognize prefixes, roots, and suffixes that reveal a word's meaning...
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Last updated
February 16, 2010
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