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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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Share this link with your parents of gifted students.

Cogito - Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth - Grades 7 to 12 - permalink -

This powerful site will challenge your brightest students and get everyone thinking. Designed to spark interest of young scientists and thinkers in real world issues, this site is run by Johns Hopkins' famous program for gifted youth. Find feature articles on current research, Nobel laureates, and hot topics such as global warming. Explore the links for MANY outstanding sites not specifically for "education" as much as for real-world investigation and learning.
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Teachers with high level, AP, or gifted students will want to explore this site during the summer months for inspiration and resources to use throughout the year. If your gifted program requires individual projects, send your students here to find ideas and to get energized! Even "regular" teachers, especially in the sciences, will want to share some of the current research topics and interviews that fit their curriculum. If you are looking for ways students and environmental clubs can get involved, check out the "Get Involved" section in the Sites and Tools menu.

One simple way to use the Interviews in a regular science classroom would be to have students research and act out an interview with a "mock" scientist, explaining what he/she does in order to expose students to the many fields included in the sciences.

Dr Seuss Parody Page - Collected by David Bedno - Grades 4 to 12 - permalink -

Older students celebrating Reading Across America week and any just-plain Seuss fans will enjoy these parodies collected as a plain vanilla web site. Note that this collection of links was created a while ago, so some links may no longer be active. Be sure to check out the ever popular Freud-on-Seuss, originally published in a college humor newspaper. Your literature students will appreciate these examples of parody. Gifted students and talented writers may even want to try their own hand after reading some. As always with humor, preview to be sure you are comfortable bringing these into the classroom.
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Plan a parody activity during the celebration of Seuss. Students will certainly be familiar with the "originals," making it easier to teach the sophisticated analysis of what makes parody work. If you project these parody texts (copied into other software, such as Smart Notebook or Word) on an interactive whiteboard, students can annotate them and save/print the files.

Space Poem Chain - Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency - Grades 6 to 12 - permalink -

Cross over from science to literature by participating in the Space Poem Chain. This "chain" originates in Japan, where weekly submissions have been selected during the six months from October 2006 to March 2007. Click on "concept" to read the background and details. The completed Space Poem Chain will be recorded on DVD and in late December 2007 sent up to the International Space Station in the Japanese Experimental Module Kibo. The project hopes to continue after this initial phase. The poem follows a traditional Japanese poetry form, but entries mat be submitted both in English and Japanese. See the full work, with beautiful space image backgrounds by clicking on "Space Poem Chain Gallery >Enter." The poem display requires FLASH and is sometimes slow to load.
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Share this site as a unique participatory poetry experience, even after the initial project publication. Perhaps your students would like to launch a poetry chain within your school or on a class wiki open to students around the world. Teachers in science, English, and even gifted program classes have a unique opportunity to awaken interest. Make creative writing an open experience-- one that may even appeal to the "rocket scientists" in your class.

When you first visit the site, you may be prompted to download a Japanese language plug-in. You will be able to READ the site without it, but the legibility improves dramatically if you are permitted to download plug-ins on your computer.

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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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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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.

Television Production - Ron Whittaker, Ph.D. - Grades 9 to 12 - permalink -

A Free, Interactive Course in Studio and Field Production-- This is a free course aimed at students interested in going into television production. It is exhaustive in its entirety and covers all aspects of the production from scripts to news reporting, editing, legal and ethical issues, etc. While it is geared to college students, upper level high school students would do well with some of this as well, especially those motivated by this subject matter. It also offers the entire course in Spanish and Portuguese.

Clicking on the "Readings and Information" menu will give you a "classroom related" menu that includes lesson plans and ideas. Scrolling down the main page, you can check on interactive test, crosswords, quizzes, video projects, and notes for both students and teachers.
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Wow, what a source for those teaching video or scriptwriting! This would be a valuable reference site for students interested in independent projects using video or for gifted enrichment projects, as well. If nothing else, assign lessons on composition and other "basics" to any student choosing to use video as a medium for a major project.

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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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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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.

Saxon - Math Stumpers - Saxon - Grades 6 to 12 - permalink -

This website was created to correspond with the Saxon mathematics books (grades 6-12). This site provides math stumpers and numerous activities. The topics include algebra, physics, calculus and more.
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These math activities are easy to use and ready to go. Use these for daily morning challenges or additional enrichment for your advanced or gifted students. Solutions are provided.

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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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.

Ask Oxford.com - Oxford University Press - Grades 6 to 12 - permalink -

For existing and potential wordies, this fun page offers a word of the day, a quote of the week, a list of new terms added to the OED online (i.e. "Lollywood"), a chance to look at commonly asked questions about words and linguistics, and a chance to ponder over interesting quotations that feature significant words and word play. Links from the page go to dictionaries including a children's dictionary, a cross word puzzle,facts about English, a quick quiz, and more games. Note: you can toggle between US and UK versions of the site at the top right.
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If you have a projector, use the word of the day or one of the quotes as an anticipatory set for vocab lessons or during homeroom to warm up the minds of sleepy students. Include the link on your teacher web page for your "wordie" students. Maybe even consider making some of the activities an exta credit opportunity.

Math Maze - - Grades 6 to 12 - permalink -

The self-declared mission of this site is to "make people love math." You will find a history of math, information about mathematicians, math games, information about how math applies in many "real world" professions, even downloadbale banners and wallpapers for pro-math folks. There are also audio files. The site creators are students from Singapore, China, and Malaysia, so it is a bit difficult to understand their spoken English in the audio files. This is a Thinkquest contest winner, 2006.
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Feature portions of this site on a projector for your more reluctant math students or make the link available on your teacher web site for your "math maniacs."

Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fail? - Annenberg Media - Grades 6 to 12 - permalink -

This site looks at the collapse of several ancient civilizations and suggests why these civilizations did not last. The text is easy to read and is highlighted by learning activities and games that illustrate the issues under discussion. Featured civilizations include the Maya, Mesopotamia, the Anasazi of North America and the West African societies of Mali and Songhai. The strength of this site is its suggestion that there are commonalities that help us understand the collapse of a society. There are web links to further resources, and a summary featuring Percy Shelley's poem "Ozymandias", a nice literary connection. There are "hands on" activities scattered throughout, many including cross-curricular links to science or literature.
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This site gives good concrete information, but its real power is in the greater consideration of the rise and fall of civilizations through history. This is a VERY thought-provoking collection of resources. Teachers interested in tying this discussion to current events might discuss the future of civilization in Iraq given the criteria for maintaining a society given in this site. Teachers of gifted could also use this site as the basis for a great social studies unit. If you own the old favorite computer game Civilization, you could put together some scenarios using that, as well.

From Cave Art to Your Art - Sanford - Grades 5 to 12 - permalink -

Challenge your students' creativity and personal reflections about art: both their own and art through the ages. Use this site to CREATE their own videos with images from their own artwork, text, and video clips provided by the site. There are suggestions for structured video topics or you can suggest other ideas. The site provides clear, step-by-step instructions for students to complete their videos. The files can even be downloaded and played on any computer. Art teachers and computer teachers alike will love the possibilities of this project-site. If your students maintain electronic art portfolios, they will certainly want to add a video from this online production studio. REQUIRES FLASH!! Get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
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Demonstrate the skills and steps on an interactive whiteboard or projector, or simply allow your "digital native" students to work through the directions. Since no two computers are alike, it is strongly recommended that you or a student-assistant try a "practice run" to make sure your computers have all the right plug-ins and permissions. Then watch your students go to town! Share the products on a projector or burn them to CD. We were unable to find information on the site about copyright and whether you have permission to share them on a web page. This is a TeachersFirst Edge entry, though it is not difficult to use. Skills needed: drag and drop video elements, follow directions in Help, downloading files, unzipping and saving (directions provided)

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King Tut Exhibition - The King Tut Exhibition - Grades 6 to 12 - permalink -

What student doesn't love King Tut? This site is connected with the current tour of some of the King Tut artifacts across the United States. Each exhibition site has its own section, and each site is different. However, each location site contains the same educational resources, which are excellent. There is a beautiful animated gallery of some of the artifacts. Although King Tut was really just a minor king in the Egyptian history, the stunning beauty of the items discovered in his tomb is hard to resist. This site would add strong visual impact to any unit on Egyptian history.
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Use this site on a projector to introduce Egyptian history or make it a scavenger hunt activity. Gifted enrichment teachers could create an opportunity for students to explore and compare this and other ancient civilizations. The buttons for Exhibition Preview, Tut Mania, and The Story of King Tut provide the actual content.

Create an Interview Video - Washington Post - Grades 7 to 12 - permalink -

TeachersFirst Edge entry: for the more adventurous technology user. The Washington Post offers this short-term opportunity to create your own campaign interview. Begun in September, 2006, the project invites you and your students to create a video interview using the downloadable question "footage" they provide of an interviewer and insert your own video of the responses. You may submit your completed video back to the Post's site. After a few weeks, the Post will allow you to see others' work and comment to each other.

This would be a great activity to teach video editing, but more importantly to teach about interviewing, political "message," and the election process.

Although this activity was designed prior to the 2006 election, the video clips will work for most any election. This site requires Flash. You can get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page.
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As a class activity, you may not want to upload your resulting videos but instead share them in class, depending on your district policies about posting student work to the web. Certainly, you will want to keep student work anonymous. Tech skills needed: ability to download and upload, locating or creating video clips of responses, use of Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, or similar video-editing software, management of larger files, proper citation of sources.

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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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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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

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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