Mister Rogers' Neighborhood . Parents & Teachers . Philosophy About the Series | PBS Kids. Gifted Resources. Exquisite Minds. The Best Gifted Resources and Curriculum We’ve Found: Mostly Free! Free Gifted Education Resources: Teaching Philosophy to Children: Lesson plans for all ages from the University of Washington Center for Philosophy for Children. The Marshmallow Challenge: Fun creative team building exercise for students. Myths and Legends: This is a really cool site where kids can create myths and legends, cartoon style. TED: Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world: From the podcast publisher: “Each year, TED hosts 80 of the world’s most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. And “ If you’re a teacher, consider incorporating TEDTalks into your courses.
Our two favorite companies for ordering gifted resources and units of study: Interact Simulations: Great simulation units for gifted curriculum: My colleagues and I liked many of these units, we used approximately one unit a year as a gifted unit of study. More free gifted resources: Gifted Children, Characteristics and Unique Challenges. Small poppies: Highly gifted children in the early years. Gross, M. Roeper Review Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 207-214 1999 This article by Miraca Gross is a classic on the development and needs of profoundly gifted children in infancy, toddlerhood and the preschool years.
It discusses some of the hallmarks of extreme precocity in the very young. Other topics include identification and accommodation of these children. Summary: Highly gifted children are frequently placed at risk in the early years of school through misidentification, inappropriate grade-placement and a seriously inadequate curriculum. Let me share with you one of my earliest memories. A man is working in the gardens and I am intrigued by what he is doing. Well, I agreed with my mother. As a teacher and academic working in gifted education, I have become sadly familiar with the cutting down to size of children who develop at a faster pace or attain higher levels of achievement than their age-peers.
How did the term originate? Gifted pre-school children are at particular risk. Websites for Gifted Children | Preschool Kindergarten Elementary | Science Reading Math — The Kid Story. This is Lucy’s personal collection of websites for gifted children of all ages – covering math, science, sustainability, crafting, art, music, reading, geography, history, writing, and more. Make sure you check our our new list of Books for Gifted Children, and our Top 10 Games for Gifted Children! Multi-Subject Websites for Gifted Kids ABCya.com – Organized by grade level from K-5, so would be appropriate for gifted kids starting around age 3. I like when websites are organized by age/grade because then we can just hop up about 2 grades/levels and we’re usually at a good starting point.
Websites for Gifted Toddlers and Preschoolers Play Kids Games – Online speed typing test, Color matching (for younger gifted ones), read music! Math Websites for Gifted Students >> Also check out our top 9 math contests for gifted students! Chilimath – This is a well organized site that focuses on Pre-Algebra to Advanced Algebra. Science Websites for Gifted Students Online Spelling Bees – Fun! Craft Websites. AO List of Attainments AmblesideOnline.org. Charlotte Mason included in her Original Homeschool Series books some lists of attainments, goals or objectives to be met by certain ages. She has one for 6-year-olds and one for 12-year-olds. "A Formidable List of Attainments for a Child of Six", a reprint of a curriculum outline from a CM school in the 1890's. 1.
What a Child Should Know at Twelve, from the appendix at the back of School Education, Volume 3 of her series. The six years' work--from six to twelve--which I suggest, should and does result in the power of the pupils-- (a) To grasp the sense of a passage of some length at a single reading: and to narrate the substance of what they have read or heard.