ABSTRACT
In this chapter, early childhood and elementary curriculum materials are described in terms of research-based teaching practices that show efficacy for talent development, with a special focus on culturally responsive aspects of these practices. The chapter elucidates ways teachers can put their culturally responsive beliefs and knowledge into practice while teaching science for talent development. It focuses on questioning to help students develop language and concept construction. Project Clarion units also improve students' critical thinking skills, with findings indicating that more Project Clarion units completed over the early childhood years is better. Instructional practices that encourage talent development include knowing reader's students and letting them know them, and concept development through questioning strategies, such as KWHL charts, the scientific wheel of reasoning, concept mapping, and encouraging students to become the authority on the concepts.
