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Curriculum Resources for Teachers

"All students should be challenged to expereince and learn new things every day..." Colleen Kessler, in Hands-on Ecology: Real-life Activities for Kids

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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...
 

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
 

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
 

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...
 

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...
 

Curriculum Resources for Teachers www.hoagiesgifted.org/curriculum_resources.htm last updated May 09, 2008