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Johns Hopkins University CTY Program - The Johns Hopkins University - Grades 2 to 12 - permalink -

Created by the Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth at the Johns Hopkins University, this site contains comprehensive information for teachers of gifted students in upper elementary grades through middle school. Highlights include information about summer programs for students in grades 2-12, summer employment opportunities for elementary and middle school teachers interested in becoming involved in CTY summer programs, the CTY talent search, student application information, ability and achievement testing, recommended publications and resources, and available services for interested schools and teachers.
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In the Classroom:
Share this link with your parents of gifted students.

Resources for Primary Teachers - Woodlands Junior School - Grades 0 to 5 - permalink -

Here is another wonderful website created by the Woodlands Junior School. This website is basically a compilation site for teachers. There are links and activities for math, science, special needs, history, geography, health, holidays, and many other subject areas. The website also offers many lesson plans - find the lesson plans by clicking on the subject. Note: The site is British, so beware of spelling differences! Most of the activities are interactive and require FLASH, get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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In the Classroom:
This website is ideal for interactive whiteboards. The amount of topics and information is truly amazing. Don't miss this incredible resource!

Logic and Reasoning Games - Math Playground - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -

Use this website to "clear out the cobwebs" in your students' minds. The site offers several interactive logic activities. Many require no reading. A few examples include Tetris, Rubik's Cube, Sliders, Towers and more. All activities require JAVA and FLASH. You can get both from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
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In the Classroom:
Use one of these on an interactive whiteboard as a brain warm-up at the beginning of class or as student enter the room. If you have a difficult group in a study hall, this site could keep them busy in a positive way. Substitutes will also love it! Include this link in your class's newsletter, classroom computer, or teacher web page for extra challenges and enrichment. Teachers of gifted can challenge their students to write "how to" directions for how to solve these puzzles, once they have figured them out!

Lateral Puzzles - WebRing - Grades 3 to 12 - permalink -

Build higher level thinking skills, especially flexibility in how students visualize and interpret a brief story. This challenging and interactive website has Lateral puzzles, both "active" and "solved." Registration is required if you guess an answer to one of the "active" puzzles. Registration is not necessary for reading the puzzles and clues. This site gives a lateral puzzle, and then the readers can ask questions to the original poster. Some of the "solved" puzzles could be used with younger students. However, the site is geared towards middle school and high school aged students.

Not sure what a Lateral Puzzle is? Read the FAQ section!
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In the Classroom:
Challenge your class with a "lateral puzzle of the day". This site would be perfect for your gifted students or to get everyone thinking at the start of class. Be sure to include the link on your web page! For an extra challenge when students have mastered the puzzles, ask them to analyze how they work and write some of their own.

The Exceptional Child - TeachersAndFamilies - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -

This article provides information regarding gifted students. Specific topics include how to spot a gifted student, making the "gifted" label more comfortable for your child, nurturing your gifted child at home, why "advanced work" is not the whole answer, helping your child get more out of school assignments and projects and resources.
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In the Classroom:
This article may be a useful reference for some of your parents. Share the link on your teacher web page or in a newsletter or note sent home.

Saxon - Math Enrichment - Saxon - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -

This website was created to correspond with the Saxon mathematics books (all levels). This site provides basic enrichment and can easily be used without the Saxon textbooks. There are activities available for all grades and many topics (including algebra and calculus).
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In the Classroom:
These math activities are easy to use and ready to go. Use these for daily morning challenges or additional enrichment for your more able students. Include the link on your teacher web page for students to use during school and at home.

My Hero - My Hero Project - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -

Looking for an online project-based interactive website that encourages literacy and cross-cultural communication? Looking for an alternative culminating project or process writing project for your secondary classes? Trying to help your high school juniors and seniors create an interesting college "essay" or portfolio piece? Join other adults and children from around the world by adding your essay, artwork or video about a hero on this non-profit, ad-free web site. You and your students can use this site with basic word processing knowledge -- or take it further if you are more technically capable.Site registration is required. Site is available in Spanish. Flash, Acrobat Reader and Quicktime are required. Get them from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
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In the Classroom:
Be sure to visit the Teacher’s Resource section for helpful hints and links. Use any word processing program to type essays, then copy and paste into the My Hero class page. Provide a link to the class page on your teacher web page so students, parents, and relatives can read the essays. As always follow your district policies regarding posting student work on the Internet. It is HIGHLY advisable to get written parent permission for such a project!

Very young students could work together as a class to write their entry. Older students and those with more technology available will definitely want to try the videos! If you know iMovie or Windows Moviemaker, this is a terrific project. It is well-suited for gifted students, as well.

Music Outline - Mr. Natural's Electric Classroom - Grades 1 to 6 - permalink -

Mr. Natural (yes, that is his real name) offers a Keyboard Intervalometer, or numbered scale, to download and place on the keys of a piano. Use this numbered version and the corresponding numbered music (think Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star) to learn to play the piano the "Natural" way. He also provides scales for other instruments. This would be great fun for young children but could also be very interesting as well as entertaining for older students!
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In the Classroom:
Try using the Intervalometer on a computer connected to an interactive whiteboard to SHOW students what intervals are and help them develop their "ear." If you do not have room for this system within your curriculum, you may want to include it on your teacher web page for your young prodigies to try at home. Teachers of gifted may also want to offer it as a personal exploration for students interested in music.

Girls Go Tech - Girl Scouts of the United States of America - Grades 3 to 6 - permalink -

The Girls Scouts of America have created this unique and educational website. There are four themes provided (Cryptic Codes, Mandala Maker, Mixed Messages and Composing Digital Music). Each topic provides information, unique facts and has a creative game or interactive activity. FLASH is required for some of the activities.
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In the Classroom:
The themes provided at this website could easily be incorporated into science (codes and hypothesis testing as part of scientific method, the brain as part of human body systems), music or general mind stretching activities. Use an interactive whiteboard to introduce your students to left brain versus right brain, cryptic coding or even creating digital music. This site is sure to excite your students!

Kid's Regen.org Online Magazine - The Rodale Institute - Grades 1 to 8 - permalink -

This attractive children’s online magazine focuses on becoming more environmentally aware, enjoying nature, and learning to conserve and regenerate natural resources. Besides gardening and farming, the magazine offers articles on world cultures, fitness and health, arts and crafts, and food and nutrition, all focused on using the earth’s resources wisely. Links after each story of interest connect the reader to the magazine’s archives for other articles on similar subjects. An online glossary assists kids with those science words that might be difficult and makes this site easily accessible to second language learners and learning support students.
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In the Classroom:
Use the articles to teacher comprehension skills with non-fiction that will engage your students or to model informational writing before you ask students to write their own articles. You could feature a section a day on a projector during April in honor of Earth Day! There are many opportunities for more able students to find enrichment activitites, as well.

Leapfrog - - Grades 3 to 8 - permalink -

This logic game asks students to move six frogs (3-blue and 3-green). This is a lot more difficult than it may appear. The rules include: each color frog may only move in one direction and frogs may move one space or jump over one frog. The students are asked to investigate the game by answering a few specific questions. Younger children will need teacher direction. This game requires Flash.
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There is no explanation or solution provided, so you may want to visit this site for a few minutes before including your class to familiarize yourself with the activity. This is a good activity to develop multi-step planning and envisioning strategies. Use it as an interactve whiteboard warm-up to get your class thinking and forming hypotheses.

Instructables - - Grades 4 to 12 - permalink -

A delightfully creative, collaborative site where people share (and comment on) directions for "how to" make just about anything. Language Arts, Art, or Gifted classes can "explore" the various topics to see how step-by-step directions are written, then have students write their own sequence of instructions. Even add a digital picture. Topics are "filtered" by topic (on the left side of the "explore" page) and also searchable by keyword. Art teachers will appreciate illustrated explanations of techniques from artists all over the world. This is a collaborative site, so you can read comments made by others on the different sets of instructions. Always preview such a site for appropriate content. Some include Acrobat files of patterns.
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In the Classroom:
Note: for safety reasons, it is best for the teacher to set up the free account and upload the directions, if you are posting student work. no one under 13 is allowed to post on the site. To prevent endless surfing through many how-to's, you can send students directly to specific directions by copy/pasting the address for that exact item into your class handout or onto your teacher web page.

Create Your Own RAFTS Prompt for Math Class - Writing Fix - Grades 4 to 12 - permalink -

Trying to incorporate writing into your math class? Looking for prompts to use in class or on a gated blog? Use this site to generate the RAFTS prompt for you. If you do not know or recall what a RAFTS is, the site explains that, too. Here is a hint: Role, Audience, Format, Topic, Strong verb. You could even share this RAFTS generator with your students to create their own!
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In the Classroom:
Mark this one in Favorites. It is a time saver and really challenges higher order thinking. Gifted or creative students would LOVE generating and answering their own prompts or ceating them for each other

Basic Polish Vocabulary Necessary for Survival - - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -

Learn the basics of Polish. This could be very helpful for teachers working with Polish-speaking ESL/ELL students or for your English-speaking students who are curious about other languages. Gifted students might enjoy comparing languages using this site and other tools.
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In the Classroom:
Use this site as a resource for Polish students in an ELL classroom, or for English speaking students learning Polish. Post this site on your wiki or webpage, allowing students to practice both in and out of the classroom. Not comfortable with wikis? Have no wiki worries – check out the Teacher’s First Wiki Walk-Through reviewed here.

Transparent Language: Hear Portuguese Survival Phrases - Transparent Language - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -

Learn the basics of Portuguese. This could be very helpful for teachers working with Portuguese-speaking ESL/ELL students or for your English-speaking students who are curious about other languages. Gifted students might enjoy comparing languages using this site and other tools.
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In the Classroom:
Use the Portuguese "word-of-the-day" tool to help ELL students transition into an english speaking classroom. In addition to their daily lessons, use this translated word of the day to provide them with extra vocabulary. To help students overcome social shyness, have them teacher their classmates the word of the day in Portuguese and English - allowing them to practice speaking in and English as well as maintain ownership of their primary language.

Linguistic Funland: Languages Other Than English - Kristina L. Pfaff-Harris - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -

Learn the basics of many languages, including may less-common ones. This could be very helpful for working with ESL/ELL students or for your English-speaking students who are curious about other languages. Gifted students might enjoy comparing languages using these tools.
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In the Classroom:
Use this site as a resource for ELL students or English speaking students who are attempting to learn another language. Post the site on your wiki or webpage, allowing students to review and practice in and out of the classroom. Not comfortable with wikis? Have no wiki worries – check out the Teacher’s First Wiki Walk-Through reviewed here.

Babel: Arabic - - Grades 0 to 12 - permalink -

Learn the basics of Arabic. This could be very helpful for teachers working with Arabic-speaking ESL/ELL students or for your English-speaking students who are curious about other languages. Gifted students might enjoy comparing languages using this site and other tools.Requires Quicktime to hear pronunciations.
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In the Classroom:
Use this site as a learning center or station to help students who are learning Arabic review! Have students complete the activity individually, making sure to provide headphones so students don't interrupt each other. Post the site on your teacher wiki or webpage, allowing students to practice out of the classroom too. Not comfortable with wikis? Have no wiki worries – check out the Teacher’s First Wiki Walk-Through reviewed here.

Analytical Problems And Puzzles - folj.com - Grades 3 to 12 - permalink -

This very simple site, created by an anonymous puzzle-lover, is a treasury for logic problems and lateral thinking puzzles to use in your classroom or beyond. Click on the puzzle type you want. Use them as brain warm-ups in a math or science class before venturing into problem-solving or inquiry process or simply to engage the brains before starting any activity. There are different levels of logic and different types of lateral thinking puzzles, each with a hint before revealing the complete answer. These puzzles would also be useful for gifted enrichment.
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In the Classroom:
If you don't have time to spend on these in class as often as you would like, print out a single lateral thinking or logic problem each week for your bulletin board and let the students argue about it all week. Or include this link on your teacher website for the students to access outside of class. This site is a life-saver for your study hall the day before a vacation!

LearniT: Technology Videos - Nortel - Grades 4 to 12 - permalink -

For teachers or students who have not had the opportunity to learn technology skills from a real person, these video tutorials can be very helpful. They can also fill in gaps in basic computer knowledge. Topics range from Internet safety and Netiquette to more advanced video production, digital imaging, and web page creation. For your students doing independent projects, for basics before you launch into a full-class technology production, or even for teaching yourself as a teacher, these tutorials are approachable and fairly up-to-date. Make sure you choose the right level(s) for your students, since they may have better skills than you think. You can differentiate easily with the multiple skill levels available. This one takes a longer time to open, so be patient.
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In the Classroom:
Include this link on your teacher web page or in Favorites in your computer lab or on a classroom machine for students to use as a reference. This can be a great help for students who move in and do not have the same background knowledge as the rest of the class or as a challenge to your techno-whiz or gifted student. These also can make excellent ready-to-go projected tutorials a substitute could show in preparation for an upcoming project.

MAKE Blog: Technology in your own time - MAKE Magazine Readers and Bloggers - Grades 4 to 12 - permalink -

Follow the blog entries by hands-on experimenters to find both complicated and simple "inventions" you and your students can build. Entries include photographs that bring them to life. Many may be more sophisticated than you can do in the classroom, but the blog entries explaining how the builder accomplished the task are terrific examples of scientific method and specific scientific concepts or solutions: sound, electricity, light, robotics, etc. The MAKE blog is also an endless source of ideas for classroom projects or science fair investigations.
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Choose an entry each month or at the start of a unit/lesson as a real world application of scientific principles you have been or will be studying. What an anticipatory set or activator! Show it on screen in your classroom or link to it from your teacher web page. You could also use this site as an enrichment challenge for your gifted students as you study a concept. Have them search the blog to find a real world application of the principles you are studying.

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