Flack's exciting, mind-stretching activities illuminate a rich, interdisciplinary field of study. Investigating inventions of the past and the present, funny inventions, and inventions we may see in the future provides a natural springboard to creative thinking. Recommended books, films, organizations, and other learning resources are noted throughout the text. Grades 7-9 (adaptable for many grades).

Inventing, Inventions, and Inventors: A Teaching Resource Book

Politics & Social Sciences

Flack, Jerry D.

Social Sciences

Libraries Unlimited

Suggests educational activities for gifted students based on reading mysteries

Mystery and Detection: Thinking and Problem Solving With the Sleuths

Literature & Fiction

Teacher Ideas Pr

Provides classroom-tested ideas and projects for teachers to use in teaching students about the history of aerospace from ancient to modern times

Integrating Aerospace Science into the Curriculum: K-12

Ray, Joan

Youngsters are invited to explore personal family and global history with a variety of educational activities included in this volume. Building upon a young person's natural curiosity in other people, the author guides students through the steps of researching and writing a biography or autobiography using tools such as maps, photo albums and address books. Projects such as building a genealogy mobile, gathering "grandmother's golden recipes" and playing biography bingo develop skills in creative and critical thinking and investigative research and convey important information. They should also stimulate young learners and provide hours of fun. In addition, Flack offers educators an inspiring discussion of biography and guidelines for incorporating biography into the curriculum. Like other volumes in the "Gifted Treasury Series", this work should accentuate the vital role of the library media specialist and the learning connections between students, teachers and librarians. Written in direct response to the Bradley Commission's call for more history in the school curriculum, this book is a natural companion of reading, writing, history and social studies courses. It sets out to provide students with a way to connect with the past as they work in the present. Through the study of past lives, truly and courageously fulfilled, young people can begin a search to discover how they want to use their own lives to fulfill their dreams and special promise.

Lives of Promise: Studies in Biography and Family History (Gifted Treasury Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

With the vision that children can learn well and achieve excellence if provided with opportunity and challenge, Flack offers exciting ideas and strategies to identify and develop the unique talents found in each one. These strategies employ the library media specialist and teacher as allies in the talent development process, and they promote the concept of basic skills beyond literacy and numeracy into goal setting, time management, library research, creative and critical thinking, and problem solving. The activities are designed to promote literacy, integrated learning, diversity, and academic excellence. Grades K-12.

TalentEd: Strategies for Developing the Talent in Every Learner (Gifted Treasury Series)

Can creativity be taught? Absolutely! And Meador shows you exactly how to nourish creativity and problem-solving abilities in your students. After presenting valid models of creative thinkers appearing in outstanding children's literature, she offers a variety of activities you can use to develop creative processes through fluency, flexibility, and originality. In addition, there are lists for further reading and guidelines for adapting lessons. Grades K-4 (adaptable to other grades).

Creative Thinking and Problem Solving for Young Learners (Gifted Treasury Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Meador, Karen

Psychology & Counseling

Here are a wealth of ideas, resources, and teaching techniques that promote multiple intelligences, techniques, and problem- and product-based learning. Flack uses fairy tales to provide a common theme to a variety of effective teaching strategies and engaging activities, such as making books, writing and editing newspapers, and creating a classroom museum. Drawing on Bloom's Taxonomy and the work of such experts as Gardner, Maslow, and Kohlberg, he places special emphases on learning process, literacy, thinking skills, integrated learning, diversity, and academic excellence.

From the Land of Enchantment: Creative Teaching with Fairy Tales (Gifted Treasury Series)

Teen & Young Adult

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