Archive for the 'General' Category
Here are links to sites that offer online puzzles and games for challenging you and your students: BrainBashers is a site with thousands of puzzles, riddles, games, brain teasers and more. In addition, it features a Fun Fact and an Odd Word of the day. BrainBashers is developed by Kevin Stone, who lives in […]
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Bloom’s Taxonomy is widely used by teachers while developing lessons and questions to promote higher level thinking. Here are some of my favorite websites related to Bloom’s Taxonomy: Bloom’s Taxonomy – Asking Good Questions – Novel Study is a list of question based on the tiers of Bloom’s Taxonomy that can be used with a […]
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Byrdseed is a site created by a gifted education teacher who was a gifted student when he was in elementary school. It contains a wealth of information for teachers involved with teaching gifted students. The site’s creator has a computer science background and has included some tech-integrated lessons. When you click on the “Lesson Ideas” […]
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GiftedSources.com is a site that contains links to a variety of resources related to gifted education. The links on the left take you to pages with lesson plans, interesting websites, articles, and professional organizations. The site does a nice job of separating lesson plans by subject area, however you have to click on the individual […]
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Differentiation in Wilmette is a site created by educators in District 39 in Wilmette, IL. The site was created as a resource for their teachers, parents and community. It provides a great general overview of differentiation along with tips for designing differentiated lessons. District 39 is a K-8 district, so the information is relevant for […]
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Questioning is an important part of the learning process for all students. Good questions can be used to help students develop higher-level thinking skills. It’s important not only to ask students more in-depth, open-ended questions, but also to encourage them to ask these types of questions during their own learning process. Here are links to […]
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Mrs. Sundra’s Gifted Resource Page is a site created by an elementary gifted teacher in Arizona. While this site doesn’t contain a large variety of resources, I feel the lesson plans and resources it does contain are of good quality and easy to use and adapt. The activities are related to the areas of Literature […]
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A Different Place is a website that has a variety of activities and resources for gifted students, parents of gifted students, and teachers. If you click on the “Teachers” button on the home page, you are taken to a welcome page for teachers. About halfway down the Teachers page, in the paragraph that starts with […]
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Stop Bullying Now, as the name suggests, is a site that offers resources for dealing with and stopping bullying. The site is created by the U.S. Department of Healthy and Human Resources and contains many resources for parents, teachers and students. Included on Stop Bullying Now are puzzles, quizzes, games, cartoons, songs, surveys and designed […]
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American Car Brochures is a site that contains archived car brochures and ads from cars dating back to the early 1900’s. The brochures are organized by manufacturers, then by years. Check out American Car Brochures to see if they have information about your first car. The site can be used with students studying 20th century […]
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