The Tiered Curriculum Project is a part of the Indiana Department of Education website. It contains examples of tiered lessons from grades K – 12 in the areas of Language Arts, Science and Math. The lessons were created by three professors from Ball State University — one of them, Cheryll Adams, is the Director of […]
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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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Smithsonian Education – Lesson Plans is a site that contains inquiry-based lesson plans in a variety of grade levels and subject areas. The Lesson Plans site is part of a larger educational site created by The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. The site is very nicely organized. You can search for lesson plans […]
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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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Math Playground is a site created by a teacher to help her students sharpen their math skills. The site contains interactive games, videos, puzzles and other activities related to a variety of math concepts such as fractions, decimals, number sense, geometry, algebra, measurement, and more.
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Brain Tour is an interactive site that explains the parts of the brain and how the brain functions. While the site is sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association, most likely with the purpose of showing how Alzheimer’s disease affects the brain, the first seven slides of the presentation can be used as a good visual model […]
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Kids in the House is a government-created website for providing information to students about the legislative branch of our government. The site provides lesson plans, glossary, interactive activities, tours and games for young learners and grade school, middle school and high school students. The materials at different levels make it a good resource for differentiation.
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