ABSTRACT

Gifted students have the potential to learn material earlier and faster, to handle more abstraction, and to solve complex problems better. This potential, however, needs stimulating experiences from home and school or it will not unfold. These books are designed to help teachers provide the engaging curricula that will nurture this potential in school. The Science book includes a medical simulation in which teams of students work as doctors to diagnose patients' cases, a food science project in which students use a variety of information-gathering techniques to learn how nutrition impacts performance, a hands-on study of human memory and expertise, and a study of the physics of sports.

Grades 6-8

chapter Chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction: We Are Intellectual Archeologists

ByKenneth J. Smith

chapter Chapter 2|17 pages

What Are They Thinking? The Cognitive Processes of Gifted Learners

ByKenneth J. Smith

chapter Chapter 3|54 pages

Memories Are Made of This: The Psychology of Human Memory

ByKenneth J. Smith

chapter Chapter 5|60 pages

Physics: The Science of Motion

ByJoshua Bozeday

chapter Chapter 6|37 pages

An Introduction to Food Science

ByCarol Wagner