Challenge students to put their brains in high gear and think creatively about an array of topics. Some of the subjects include advertising, communications, the future, mythology, photography, weather and more. Each reproducible, illustrated page provides several activities and will serve as a springboard for creative thinking. Use to inject creative thinking in learning centers, regular curriculum and individualized study projects. Grades 3-6

Mind in Motion: Units for Creative Thinking and Thematic Learning

Children's Books

Carolyn Powell

Education & Reference

Prufrock Press

Calculation Capers: Multi-Step Math Problems

Dianne Draze

Combine the exercises in the three parts of this book to create a variety of unique guided visualizations.    Relaxations teach children to relax and quiet their minds.  Imaginations are short stories that encourage visualization.  Task Motivational Instructions are positive statements that encourage constructive behaviors.    Used together, these parts provide enriching imagery experiences.    Grades 3-7

Mindscape: Mix and Match Imagery Exercises

Miriam Furst

Based on Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, this book is packed with ideas for developing students' varied talents. Each of the 24 units has activities for kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, linguistic, logical and mathematical, musical and spatial abilities. It includes units on seasons, holidays, animals, technology, and more. This is an easy way to nurture all intelligences and provide opportunities for each student to work in a way that is most appropriate to his or her abilities. Grades 4-6

Talent Scout: Units for Developing Multiple Intelligences

From the moment you first think about organizing a science fair until the fair is over, Science Fair will take you every step of the way with tested organizational strategies and forms. In addition to clear, easy-to-follow instructions for any teacher wishing to start their own science fair, the book offers offers step-by-step guidance, forms, and materials for both students and judges. The book features specific guidelines for teachers and administrators, all necessary forms and checklists, specific directions and forms for student participants, and a complete judges packet. Add more learning and fun to your science fair with this time-saving handbook. Grades K-6

Science Fair

Barbara Smith

Randee Blair

Make reading quality children's literature a fun, exciting activity for your students. Help your students discover an excitement for reading with this time-saving handbook that shows you how to create a reading competition in your classroom or school. An Exciting Competition that Teaches Reading Skills! Reading Olympics is a fast-paced game that puts small groups of students against each other as they compete by reading books and completing activities. Students practice reading for detail, main idea, and making inferences. The activities in Reading Olympics teach both reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. This guide is a perfect handbook for any language arts teacher or librarian looking for a fun, time-saving way to help students enjoy reading and learn valuable skills. Reading Olympics includes ... a complete Reading Olympics planning calendar and easy-to-follow teacher instructions; suggested reading lists of quality children's literature at each grade level; all student record forms and award certificates; all of the necessary forms needed for scoring and recording student progress; and reading comprehension and critical thinking questions for students and book summaries for teachers for the 48 books used in the competition. This is much more than a set of activities; it is a complete, ready-to-use reading competition that can be used during a semester or throughout the entire year. Order Reading Olympics and let the competition begin! Grades 3-6

Reading Olympics: A Competition to Build Reading Comprehension

Noreen Winningham

Attractive reproducible worksheets introduce younger students to all the skills they will need in order to become successful library users. Informative, creative materials give students developmental lessons in parts of a book, alphabetical order, dictionaries, encyclopedias, finding books in the library, and more. These are skills and information that students will use throughout their school careers. Grades 2-4

Primarily Reference Skills

Judy Leimbach

The Interest-A-Lyzer instruments invite students to examine their present and potential interests through a series of open-ended questions structured to highlight general patterns of interest. Each class set of Interest-A-Lyzers contains 30 instruments, 30 student forms, and 1 classroom summary sheet.Grades 4–8

Interest-A-Lyzer: Class Set of 30

Education & Teaching

Renzulli Ed.D., Joseph

Schools & Teaching

Now completely revised and expanded, Systems and Models for Developing Programs for the Gifted and Talented includes chapters on the major systems and models for developing programs for the gifted, including the Autonomous Learner Model, the Integrative Education Model, the Multiple Menu Model, the Purdue Three-Stage Model, the Schoolwide Enrichment Model, and Levels of Service. Forty-two experts in gifted education contributed to 25 chapters, and each chapter includes a discussion of the model, theoretical underpinnings, research on effectiveness, and considerations for implementations. Discussion questions follow each chapter. Chapters provide compact, yet comprehensive summaries of the major models developed by leaders in the field of gifted education.

Systems and Models for Developing Programs for the Gifted and Talented

Renzulli, Joseph S.

Eckert, Rebecca D.

Gubbins, E. Jean

McMillen, Kristin S.

Little, Catherine A.

Show students how to get out of the library and into the real world! Teachers can use this user-friendly guidebook to help their elementary students learn how to gather and analyze data in order to answer their own research questions. Each chapter includes explanations, examples, and practice activities for each step in the research process.

Looking for Data in All the Right Places: A Guidebook for Conducting Original Research with Young Investigators

Schack, Gina

Starko, Alane

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