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Challenging Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom
"How do teachers develop an instructional plan that will be challenging, enlightening, and intriguing to students of different abilities?" Find the answer to this question and sources for further reading.
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Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students
What can teachers to do encourage gifted students to exhibit creativity in the classroom? This article provides some suggestions and also list ways that adults often "kill" creativity in children.
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Kid Source on Line: Encouraging Creativity in Early Childhood Classrooms
An excellent article providing insight for how to encourage young children to be creative in their educational development. The article gives suggestions for what teachers can do to foster creativity by using time, space, materials and...
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Kid Source on Line: Supporting Girls in Early Adolescence
The time period of adolescence for girls is covered in this paper with topics such as self concept, self-image, and body image.
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Kid Source on Line: Five Ways to Stimulate Brain Power in Your Child
Offers a general list of some ideas about what might help foster the "right" kind of brain development.
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Kid Source on Line: Skateboard Safety Tips
Sprains, fractures, contusions and abrasions are the most common types of injuries from riding a skateboard. Deaths due to collisions with cars and from falls also are reported. Several factors - lack of protective equipment, poor board...
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Kid Source on Line: Breakfast: Waking Up to a Healthy Start
This article stresses the importance of eating a healthy breakfast. Research shows that skipping breakfast may cause one to perform poorly in school. Improve your mornings by following the simple "Breakfast Tips" at the bottom of the page.
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Kid Source on Line: Teaching English to Gifted Students
Find answers to several questions concerning gifted students and how they should be taught English: "How should gifted students be identified?" "What specific resources exist for teaching English and language arts to gifted/talented...
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Planning Science Programs for High Ability Learners
"What should a science curriculum for gifted students include?" Find a response to this question, and learn what ideas research studies have proposed for improving science curriculum for gifted children.
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Kid Source on Line: Video Games and Children
The effects of video game use and video game violence on children are detailed here. Numerous early studies from the 80s and 90s are cited.
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Kid Source on Line: Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins: Geography
Discusses how people adjust to where they live. The age groups indicated are for Toddler and Preschool and could be adapted for K-1st grades.
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Kid Source on Line: Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know
This site provides some information for parents about marijuana.