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2020
was a year none of us could have imagined in our wildest dreams...
except maybe the fantasy writers. Masks. Social Distancing.
Quarantine. Shutdown. Zoom for school, work, socializing,
everything.
What stands out about 2020 to you? The year the appliances all died?
The year you learned how easy (or hard) it is to homeschool gifted
kids? The year of anxiety and stress? What does 2020 mean to you?
If you'd like to read all our past Blog Hops or join our next Blog
Hop, visit
Blog Hops for all our past and future
topics. Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog
Hop graphics!
Tolerance
and Equality ~ Bettering Our World. The world is changing
every day, but there is so much more change needed. How can we
teach our kids what is right and wrong without overwhelming
them? How can we make it a better world for our kids and our
parents? What can we do to bring Tolerance and Equity to our
corner of it?
How would you add to the conversation? Submit your own blog
here. All voices are welcome.
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops on related topics,
including
Gifted in Crisis!
Gifted
in Crisis. Crisis happens to everyone. The Covid-19 pandemic
is happening to all of us, all over the world. What's
different about the way the gifted handle crisis, handle this
pandemic?
Join us for Gifted in
Crisis, a blog from a variety of perspectives on gifted
reactions, gifted survival, and yes, even gifted success when we
face crisis.
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops on related topics... OK,
there are no related topics. This is something most of us
could not have imagined being in our houses 24 hours a day,
wearing masks on the rare occasions we venture out to the doctor
or grocery store... but the good news is, as gifted folks we are
likely aware of just how much good our social distancing is
doing to reduce the estimated effects of the pandemic, at least
in our little corner of the world...
Transitions
To and Through Adulthood. Transitions can be difficult, and for
gifted kids becoming adults, sometimes even more so. The transition
from "the smartest in the room" to "just another fish in the pond."
Transitions throughout adulthood can be more... interesting... for
gifted adults.
Read more here...
and add your voice to the comments.
Deschooling.
It's not homeschooling, and it's not unschooling. It's Deschooling.
But what is it, and who needs it?
Deschooling is recovery, from the trauma that gifted children may
have received at the hands of their previous school situation.
Could deschooling be necessary after only a year or two of school?
It's possible. How can we know? What can we do?
Deschooling. It may be just what your gifted child needs!
If
you only knew... To the doctor who sees her when she's well or
sick, to the psychologist she talks to about her fears, to the
teacher who sees him every day but doesn't really see him, to the
grandparents who's expectations were formed in a different
generation... What would YOU like to say? What would you like
them to know? What does it pain you not to say out loud?
It doesn't go away when gifted kids grow up. To the neighbor
who only offers small talk, without the depth of meaning you feel?
To the director of the retirement community, who offers only
superficial activities but nothing of interest to your parents, or
to you? These conversations may never happen in real life, but it's
great to to at least articulate among ourselves. Listen and join in!
Perfectionism, Anxiety, & OCD. Perfectionism. Can I
make this good enough? Anxiety. Will they even care? And Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)... is it obsessive to
be anxious about being perfect? Are these separate, or do they all
intertwine? Can you have one without the other? Or is it a matter of
shades of gray...? What are some tools and approaches to help us
deal with our gifted realities, being good enough, reducing our
anxiety, and trying not to obsess? Learn here!
Transitions.
Whether we are talking about the little transitions from the house
to an event or school, from evening activities to bedtime, or big
transitions from home to elementary school, from high school to
college, , from adult to parent, or from adult to senior in need of
support... Gifted life is full of transitions.
Read all of this month's blogs, and learn more about different kinds of
Gifted Transitions!
Homeschooling gifted children... Do
you? Don't you? Why or why not? Did you start from square one or switch to
homeschooling later? How do you homeschool? Using curriculum, online courses, a
cyber-charter school, or unschooling? What are the pros, and the cons, of
homeschooling vs. traditional schooling? If you had it to do all over again,
what would you do differently?
Read all of this month's blogs, and learn lots more about Homeschooling gifted
and profoundly gifted children!
Thoughts
from the Mental Trenches. Thoughts from the Depths. What makes
you a healthy gifted person? What helps when you're not feeling
mentally healthy? How about for your kids? Do they struggle with
anxiety, depression, high-functioning autism, or other mental
difference? What techniques help them maintain an even keel?
What
helps you know that you're just as gifted, just as whole, when your
mind is giving you grief?
Parenting
Considerations. Concerns, worries, joys, thoughts... Any and
all. Considerations, whether you're considering parenting your kids,
parenting your elderly parents - we're the sandwich generation,
grand-parenting - a delicate dance.
What parenting considerations are on your mind this month?
We are all individuals, but we are all part of
something bigger than ourselves. Whether it's a family, a
class, a school, a neighborhood, a state, country or civilization,
belonging to something bigger than ourselves is an important part of
our being. But what if you don't feel you belong to anything?
Or you feel safe at home in your family, but feel so different from
the rest of the kids in your classroom that you don't fit in?
What's the value of belonging? What's the benefit of finding
others "just like you?" How does the Power of Belonging affect
gifted children and adults?
Twice
Exceptional Gifted. LGBTQ Gifted. Late Blooming Gifted. Learn more
about these special gifted populations! Gifted is a severe minority
population, consisting of between 2.5% and 10% of the population,
depending on which definition you subscribe to. Gifted individuals
are often marginalized, said to "have too much" or to "need
nothing."
But what if your child (or you) are a minority of a minority, a
twice exceptional gifted child, a gifted late bloomer, or a gifted
LGBTQ individual? Each of these is a marginalized population, and
minor subset of an already marginalized minority population.
Parenting
iGen, the video game generation. What does iGen entail for kids
and parents? What's the same? What's different? How can we "step up"
our parenting game as we parent (or grandparent) the iGen
generation? What does the research say? (Which generation did
the research, anyway?)
Role models, at every age and stage. Who are your role
models? Who might make a good role model? Why, or why not? Why do we
need role models anyway? If we don't have good role models, will we
automatically pick bad ones?
Who are they? How do you identify them, or are you misidentifying
them? What
does underachievement mean to you? Is it the gifted child who
refuses to achieve in school? Is it the child who writes amazing
stories, perhaps books, but refuses to write his 5-paragraph essay
homework? Is it the gifted adult who never got a college degree?
The lawyer, a member of the bar, respected in their practice, who
chooses to stay home and raise their children?
Once defined, what can you do as the parent of an underachiever?
As the underachiever yourself? Read these great blogs to understand
underachievement, and perhaps to find a few ideas, a few suggestions, a
tidbit that will change the tide.
Just
the Facts. There are blogs and other opinions, whether in
national newspapers or in some mother-turned-blogger's unofficial
proclamation. Everyone has an opinion about giftedness, gifted
education, gifted as a term, and everything else about giftedness.
But what do we really KNOW about giftedness? What does the research
say?
What does your Utopian Fantasy look like? Would you be alone?
In a community? Would there be books? music? nature? cities?
huge intricate libraries?? Or would it be the life you live today?
Does it look like something you read in a book, or something
purely from your imagination? Is it close to your reality, or
a million miles away?
Relationship
Issues. Gifted relationship issues can occur in any and every generation.
Are you struggling with gifted sibling problems? Parent / child relationship
issues? How about parent/child issues, when both are adults and one is now a
gifted elder? Gifted in-law issues? They really do mean well. And often the most
difficult relationships, gifted co-parent issues. There are so many
relationships in our lives. How can we do better with our gifted relationships?
Join those of us
who've been around the block for a while, to learn what we
wished we'd known! Wish you'd done something differently?
Glad you did something you did? Not sure what would have
been better, but you'd love to arrive at today in a different
set of circumstances?
Hindsight isn't always 20/20, but it
certainly doesn't hurt!
That's what all those gifted kids grow up to be!
But what does it mean to you? When does it matter? College?
Early Adulthood? Family years? Middle-age? Elder years?
How does it feel to be a Gifted Adult? Do you feel alone? How do
you find other GAs? Does it matter?
What else do we need to teach them, other than
academics... at every age! Going to school? Going to college?
Can they do their own laundry? Balance their checking account? Can
they advocate for themselves with teachers and professors? Do they
know how to handle a credit card? There will be plenty of offers,
and plenty of kids get into trouble with their first venture into
personal credit.
What else do they need to learn? And how can we teach them??
Do your gifted kids struggle with getting to sleep?
Staying asleep? Does your infant or toddler spend more hours
awake than you do? Many parents find that gifted kids sleep far
less than their same-age counterparts. And yet, a few gifted
parents report their kids sleep more than average, and seem to
require more hours of sleep than the nighttime allows. Any of
these issues can make us feel alone, and often make us feel
exhausted! What's worked?
And what about Gifted Adults' sleep? Join us to read lots more
sleepy ideas!
The
Misdiagnosis Initiative. Founded by
SENG, the Misdiagnosis Initiative
reduces the risk of medical misdiagnosis of gifted individuals,
whether a twice-exceptional child whose giftedness is overlooked due
to their disability – or vice versa.
Is your child "just" gifted, or twice exceptional? Does the
diagnosis he's received make sense with the boy you see every
day? Does the lack of a diagnosis make sense with the girl you
love and live with? Gifted kids can be misdiagnosed. Some are
diagnosed as having learning differences such as ADHD or High
Functioning Autism, but are really just gifted, or bored and
gifted kids. Others are not diagnosed, when they struggle with
Executive Functioning (EF), social skills or other learning
challenges.
Two years ago, we discussed many of the stages; today we discuss a
few more. Gifted kids give us a run for our money, no matter how old
they are, or what stage they're in...this week. Whether you're
dealing with the toddler "little lawyer" who doesn't miss a trick,
or the high schooler looking towards dual enrollment, middle-age
however you define it, or gifted elders, the Ages and Stages of
giftedness are never boring.
Creativity and
Productivity. Gifted individuals frequently need to move beyond
the rules. We play a game (or we play at life) with normal rules
once, and then the rules need to be changed, expanded, adapted
because they have this need to be part of the process, never just
accepting what they're given. It's when they have choices A, B, & C
and instead have to come up with option D mixed with a bit of F,
since simply accepting or going along with someone else's point of
view would be unthinkable. What does Gifted Creativity and
Productivity mean to you?
Philosophical/Spiritual
Anxiety. Asynchronous development means many gifted kids
understand the finality of death and the afterlife before they're
emotionally ready to handle it. It means the news is devastating
because our kids (and us, as adults!) are understanding too much and
struggling with the weight of the world. Gifted kids are often
unwilling to believe in mythical creatures - Santa Claus, the tooth
fairy, the Easter Bunny, and others. As adults, Philosophical or
Spiritual Anxiety may lead us to spiritual quests, seeking spiritual
communities, and suffering / enjoying spiritual sensitivity. What
does Philosophical and/or Spiritual Anxiety mean to you?
Gifted Elder Issues.
Sometimes called the "sandwich generation," gifted adults often find
themselves dealing with their gifted kids' issues on one hand, and
their gifted parents' issues on the other... eldercare, retirement
communities, and lots more. Or perhaps you *are* a Gifted Elder,
dealing with medical, residential, and other issues facing gifted
elders? How do you deal with Gifted Elder Issues? What unique
options are available to you?
Balancing
Boredom and Burnout. Gifted kids need variety and challenge, but
they need "down time," too. How does your family balance that fine
line between too many activities and not enough? Is there a magic
formula that works for you? How about in the classroom? How do you,
as a teacher, advise gifted kids to slow down and "smell the roses,"
rather than fill thier days with Academic Team, school play, choir,
band, orchestra, sports...?
Traveling with Gifted Kids. Traveling
with kids is always interesting. Traveling with gifted and
intense kids can be even more... interesting. Where to go? How
to integrate with other families? How to deal with OverExcitabilities while traveling, theirs and yours?
Overthinking. The gifted girl who
"fails" the school's IQ screener, because she over-analyzes the multiple-choice
questions. The gifted boy who focuses on the "letter of the law" in each of the
teacher's assignments, and then gets in trouble with the teacher for not
following the "spirit" of the assignments. The gifted child who cannot get
started on a long-term project because he can think of all the time and energy
and complicated steps that might need to be taken, and cannot begin because of
it. What can you do if you find yourself, or your kids, overthinking? How can
you get away from it?
Multipotentiality. Gifted kids often have multiple strengths,
and find themselves pressured to succeed in more than one area.
The gifted child may be as talented at writing as at math, or may be
as focused on the sciences as on history. But schools and
colleges often expect kids to "settle down" and select one area of
achievement. What do we do when our kids (or we) want to
achieve in more than one (or two) area?
Educational
Options. From public school to private school, homeschool to
unschooling, distance learning to mentors and tutors, there are
nearly as many educational options as there are gifted children. And
that's good news! When we're in the throes of an educational misfit,
it's sometimes difficult to see what our options might be. Join us
this month to discuss many of the options that have worked for other
kids, and the combinations and alternatives that can help YOUR
gifted child!
Executive
Function Skills. We all want 'em, but who's got 'em? How did we grow
them? And how can we shared them with our gifted, organizationally
challenged gifted kids?? Join the Hoagies' Gifted Blog Hop team for lots of
great ideas, whether your gifted child is a preschooler or a post-schooler
(a.k.a. adult). You can always improve Executive Function Skills!
You know the child who runs a bake sale to save the tigers, or the
child who collects PCs and refurbishes them to donate to low-income families, or
the child who raises money to provide solar chargers to remote villages in other
countries... How do we support our budding idealists? How do we guide them, and
take there concerns for real? This is the best gift we can give them!
November
29
2016 Support Hoagies' Gifted on #GivingTuesday!
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To some of us, this means everything, the
all-encompassing social/emotional development of the gifted
individual. To others, it means nothing except an excuse
schools use to decline to educate our gifted children, ignoring
their academic needs as an aside. What does Emotional Intelligence
mean to you? Read this month's blogs and I'm certain you'll
find one or many that resonate with you.
To read all our past Blog Hops or join our next Blog Hop, visit
Blog Hops for all our past and future topics.
Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
Grade Acceleration / Early
Kindergarten / Early College. What is grade acceleration? Is it "skipping"
or simply aligning the child's learning and social levels with the curriculum
and classmates? From Early Kindergarten through Early College, what forms of
Grade Acceleration have been proven effective, in research and in practice? And
what are the negative sides to grade acceleration? No change in placement is
without risk. Learn more here!
Community.
What does community mean to you? How have you found community
for your gifted kids? For yourself? Why is community so
important? What are the characteristics of a good community?
Join our community, and we'll help you find yours!
Gifted social issues, including
friendships, bullying, understanding introverts, finding intellectual peers, and anything else you would like to talk about concerning the social issues surrounding giftedness at every age.
All
things Science! Summer is a great time for playing around with
science. What are your favorite approaches to hands-on science?
Curriculum? Enrichment? Reading? STEM? STEAM? Robotics? Let's talk
science!
Mysteries
of the Brain. From brain research to perfect pitch, from identification to
sensory integration, from soulmates to our gifted kids, there are so many things
we just don't know or don't understand about the gifted brain... you could fill
a brain with them! Visit and read about a few of the Mysteries surrounding
and contained in the gifted brain...
Giftedness
in popular culture, positive & negative. Why are your favorite role models?
Least favorite? Resources? What would you rather see?
From Good Will Hunting to Meet the Robinsons, Doogie Howser to Scorpion, gifted
individuals have appeared in pop culture in many ways over the years. Some
gifties are stereotypical, like Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory, while
others are more down to earth or "real." Who are your favorites? Who
haven't you discovered yet? Join us on a tour of Pop Culture, with a
"gifted" lens...
This month we gather on Forming Gifted
Groups, for young and old, for parents and individuals...so many
questions along the way. Why do we need them? How do we form
them? How can we maintain them, and keep them positive and
forward-thinking? Gifted support groups. They ARE all
their cracked up to be! What gifted groups would YOU like to
be a part of?
Don't
miss our March Math-ness! Math. The subject that excites or
strikes fear, engaging our imagination or making our eyes glaze
over. Join us this month for a smorgasbord of Math, from our
favorite curriculum and enrichment sources, to our most challenging
math moments. Math phobia to Math frenzy, this month has something
for YOU!
Other Achievement: when
your child doesn't achieve where you hope. Call it
underachievement. Or non-scholastic achievement. Or
scholastic non-achievement. What is a parent or teacher to do
when the gifted child they know and love isn't accomplishing in
school what we know they can? And other achievement isn't just
about gifted kids... what about gifted adults? Gifted elders?
We all achieve, but it's not always what others are expecting!
Surviving the Holidays with a
House Full of Gifted Folks! The winter holidays bring school
breaks and family time, and we love the hours spent with our
friends and relatives and all the kids. But sometimes...
those large gatherings in small spaces bring along stress.
And while this was written for the (Northern Hemisphere) winter
holidays, these great hints will serve you as well in your
summer family picnics, spring and fall celebrations, and winter
holidays, no matter what time of year they occur!
Giftedness looks unique across the lifespan, yet most of what
you find on the subject addresses the K-12 school years. But are
we any less gifted as toddlers? As adults? As parents? As senior
citizens? Giftedness affects every part of our human
development. Join us to explore those ages and stages!
How and When to Ask For Help. So many
things happen with our gifted kids, students, older family members, and even
ourselves, that make us think, "Is this normal?" Good question!
When should we ask for help, and when should we just "let it
ride..." And how and where and to whom should we, could
we, ask for help?
As a teacher, when should we ask for help with the education of
the gifted kids in our class? As a parent, how can we ask
for help when our previously sparkle-in-their-eyes child slowly
comes home from school sullen-and-withdrawn, commenting about
"never learning again"? Our gifted teens... that's another
time when both parents and teachers find themselves scratching
their heads wondering "Is this normal?" or "Should I be
worried?" There are so many times and reasons to ask for help
with the gifted...
Fall Sale -- Any Booklet $11. Take advantage of our Fall Sale on Spotlight on
2e Series booklets. Through September, any booklet in the series is just $11
(plus shipping). 10 booklets in the series cover topics such as giftedness and
ADHD, giftedness and Aspergers, giftedness and dyslexia, and more. Also in the
series: a twice exceptionality "primer" booklet for parents and one for
educators.
OverExcitabilities.
Dabrowski called them over-stimulabilities, and now we call them
OverExcitabilities, or OEs, for short. They're that
over-reaction that gifted folks often have, in one or more of
the 5 areas Dabrowski identified: psychomotor, sensual,
imaginational, intellectual and emotional. How do these
OverExcitabilities affect your life as a gifted person? Your
kids' lives? Your life as the parent of a gifted child? How can
we help our kids understand and appreciate their own
OverExcitabilities while still living comfortably in the world
around them?
Gifted 101. We were all
beginners at one time or another, whether as parents discovering our
kids' giftedness, or as adults discovering our own giftedness.. We
welcome you to the gifted community with the advice we wish we'd
heard during those first days, weeks, months and years! What do you
know now that you wish you knew then?
Gifted Relationships.
How does giftedness affect our kids relationships, with their peers
and teachers, with their siblings, with their parents and
grandparents? Do gifted kids prefer real life or online
relationships? Why?
And how does our giftedness affect our
relationships? More than we'd like to admit!
The Gift of Free Time.
Do our gifted kids get enough free time? What do they spend their
free time doing? Are our lives too organized and regimented these
days? How can we give our kids more of the gift of free time?
Our lives, and our kids' lives, are more scheduled today than ever.
School, after-school activities, organized sports, even daycare hours are
regimented into subjects, with little time for play. Whatever happened to
summers full of free time? Read and find out!
2e
kids. Twice Exceptional. Dually Identified. No matter what you
call them, gifted kids with another struggle are more than twice the
challenge; they're more like challenge squared.
Hoagies' Gifted Blog Hops! Our
upcoming topics are posted, and we're always looking for new
bloggers. Join us on June 1st for The Gift of Free Time, July
1st for Relationships!, August 1st for Gifted 101, and September
1st: OverExcitabilities (OEs). By then we'll have the fall
topics announced, and even more exciting Blog Hops for bloggers to
join. We'd love to have you!
2e
kids. Twice Exceptional. Dually Identified. No matter what you
call them, gifted kids with another struggle are more than twice the
challenge; they're more like challenge squared.
2e
kids. Twice Exceptional. Dually Identified. No matter what you
call them, gifted kids with another struggle are more than twice the
challenge; they're more like challenge squared. Can you imagine a
gifted mind, trapped inside a body that doesn't conform to the
expectations of school, family, or society? As challenging as
this might be for parents and teachers, the biggest challenge may be
internal to the 2e child herself!
How can you identify the 2e child? What flavors of 2e kids are
there? How does the 2e child fare in traditional school? In
homeschooling? What
tips and tricks help the 2e child, their parents, teachers, and
other professionals, to accomplish all that they are capable of
without frustration and struggle?
Anxiety.
It's real. It can be debilitating. How can we deal with it?
How can we help our kids deal?
Research tells us that gifted kids and adults are no more likely to
struggle with these difficulties than other kids and adults. Some
suggest that giftedness protects from Anxiety, while others suggest
that it can create excess anxiety. What are the symptoms and
side-effects of gifted anxiety in your life?
Academic Acceleration is not just about speeding up.
Acceleration is about speeding up the curriculum to meet the child's
needs. It's about schools teaching the gifted. And it's
about homeschooling, sometimes when all else fails.
Visit Blog Hop: Acceleration and
look at gifted academic acceleration, from the perspective of
parents, teachers, and kids in school and homeschool... you may be
surprised what you learn!
February 2015 Dinnertime conversation
starters...
Is
dinner an electronic affair at your house? Try
TableTopics. In topics from
Family to
Infomania,
Couples to
Teens, and more, they're quick and easy conversation
starters, helpful with gifted kids, teens, and even twice
exceptional kids.
Gifted Testing. What is it? Why should we do it? What are the best tests
to use? What do the results mean? And most often asked... How can I prepare
my child for Gifted Testing?
Visit Blog Hop: Testing and
learn about testing from every perspective: parents, teachers,
gifted kids, gifted coordinators and more!
Testing
is a topic that strikes a chord with just about everyone... mostly
dissonant. Learn about testing from those who know it best... and
those who've decided against it. Gifted testing, achievement
testing, twice exceptional testing, and more.
Visit Blog Hop: Testing and learn about
testing from every perspective: parents, teachers, gifted kids, gifted
coordinators and more!
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What traditions will your kids remember next year, in 20 years, for a
lifetime? Will he remember the piles of presents, or that Grammy and
Grandfather took all the grandkids to the theater every holiday? Will she
recall that "perfect gift" you bought for her when she was 3, or 10, or 16,
or will she remember the year Daddy's gingerbread house was a train station
with the town clock on top (it's always 5 o'clock somewhere!), or the year
she created a wonderland gingerbread castle that looked a little like
Hogwarts, in red and black on a shimmering lake of silver nonpareils?
How can we "do" the holidays without the kids' chorus of "Give
me, give me"? How can we ignore the ads and the stores and the
constant bombardment that the less we spend, the less we love our
loved ones? What options are there for our gifted families?
Please be sure to adjust your own mask before assisting others.
It's good advice, good advice that we rarely listen to in our own
lives. Are you the parent of a gifted child? Are you overwhelmed,
exhausted, or just plain "spent," trying to keep up with your own
life, and your kids? Put on your own oxygen mask before attempting
to assist those around you!
We
find ourselves advocating for our gifted children in many places.
We may be in school, talking to the teacher and administrators; we may be advocating with our pastor or our neighbor,
in the grocery store line or at the soccer game. We may find
ourselves advocating for ourselves, as gifted adults. Gifted
advocacy comes in many colors and flavors... where do you find
yourself advocating?
Join Hoagies' Gifted Blog Hop!
E-mail us at
HoagiesGifted.org. Write your blog post on the month's
topic, and schedule your blog post to publish at 12:01 a.m.(0:01)
on the date of the blog (the first of the month). Submit
your permalink, provided by your blog software, and the text of
your blog by the 27th of the month before the Blog Hop.
We'll send you the month's link and graphic to add to the bottom
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Gifted,
How? The different faces of giftedness. The creatively gifted,
the math gifted, the chess kid, the twice exceptional child
(also known as 2e, dually identified, or gifted & learning
disabled), the introvert and the extravert, the writer, the
comic book author, the programmer, the easy-going and the
anxious. All gifted kids (and adults) don't all look alike!
What does the face of giftedness look like to you?
Friendship. One word that has many meanings. For most kids,
friends are those they play with. But for the gifted child,
friendship is often far more than that.
Gifted friendships can be
more complex, more deep, and more difficult to find. Visit our
blog hop, where we take on Gifted Friendships, charting
the waters and traveling the seas as they affect gifted children and
adults!
Get a phone call from Microsoft? Do
NOT do anything they say! They are
not
Microsoft, and the things they ask you to do on your
computer open you up so they can remote control your
computer and
steal your identity!
Run
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (free for home use) at least
monthly, along with your anti-virus program. Follow the instructions in
PC Security to install the
free version, or purchase the inexpensive paid version of
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware that runs itself!
Visit
PC Security
for more ways to keep yourself safe and secure!
This year's malware isn't just attacking our
PCs. It's attacking our
Routers! You
must change your router's administrator ID and
password from the default provided by your Internet Service
Provider (ISP) or router manufacturer. Without this change,
anyone
can access your router from anywhere on the internet
and change services, such as redirecting your access through their server and stealing all your ids and
passwords!
Change your wireless access password, and
change your password type to WPA2. Verizon
users: the default wireless access password that came with
your service and is printed on the sticker on your router
may be easily calculated from the name of your router -
there's an Android app! This means
anyone can pull up outside your house and sign on to your
router using your service. And you're responsible for
anything they do!
Summer
brings vacations and relaxing by the pool. Endless hours
playing outdoors, and long days and evenings reading your favorite
books. What summer reading do gifted folks favor? It
depends... Visit Hoagies' Page July
Blog Hop: Summer
Reading, and share our bloggers Summer Reading fun.
Whether it's fun-and-quick mind-candy reading, or carefully picked
classroom summer reading list reading, whether it's non-fiction or
graphic novels, Summer Reading is important to us all. Summertime
may be the time to work on reading skills for struggling readers,
while sharing your love for reading with your kids, students, or
patients. Let's hear it for Summer Reading! Now take an
hour off, curl up in a hammock under a tree or a reading nook carved
in the wall of your house, and read whatever you want...
What
do you think of when you hear Gifted @Play? Gifted kids,
adults or families? Playing board games, playing outdoors,
"playing" with others, using game theory? Gifted adults
playing through performance? Board games? Music?
Play means so much, and is something different to everyone. Visit
Hoagies' Page June Blog Hop:
Gifted @Play!
Join us on our inaugural Hoagies' Gifted Blog Hop! Bloggers from
all corners of the gifted community--parents, teachers and
counselors--join us to share their perspectives.
This month's topic: The "G" Word. Gifted. What does it mean to you?
What does it mean to others? Is it good? Is it bad? Should we use
it? Change it? Read on to see what this month's Hoagies' Gifted Blog
Hop bloggers think and feel! Thanks to all our bloggers for opening
up this conversation.
Analytical kids will do the environmental math about driving to the gym to
exercise on machines and point out the irony. Justice-seeking kids will do the
ethical math about the unfair effects of buying quinoa from poor Peruvians and
refuse to
Analytical kids will do the environmental math about driving to the gym to
exercise on machines and point out the irony. Justice-seeking kids will do the
ethical math about the unfair effects of buying quinoa from poor Peruvians and
refuse to eat the grain, or read this January 2014 Slate article and resume
eating it. Well-read kids might point out that participation in organized sports
will not address the root causes of the gargantuan health and wellness problems
facing first world people today–problems like obesity, cancer, diabetes, and
heart disease.
Parents, Dawn Mollenkopf and Jude Matyo-Cepero at University of
Nebraska Kearney are looking for you! "Help us gain information from
parents firsthand about their children’s experiences so we can learn how to
improve learning opportunities and resources for them."
6-unit education program in giftedness, including essential
information a teacher needs to understand the nature of
giftedness and talent; what the terms mean; levels and types
of giftedness; subjective and objective identification
procedures; social and emotional characteristics and needs
of gifted students; underachievement; teaching
strategies and methods of curriculum differentiation to
enhance the learning of gifted students in the mainstream
classroom; practical strategies for the establishment and
monitoring of ability, achievement or interest grouping in
classes, and the many forms of accelerated progression
through schooling.
Available online once again!
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Every child and adult should understand that
they are leaving a digital footprint, a collection of
information and data about themselves available freely on
the internet, recorded forever in the public memory.
What is in
Federal law ensures all students with
disabilities the right to a Free, Appropriate Public
Education (FAPE). However, current policies governing a
student’s eligibility for services may contribute to the
underidentification of gifted children with co-existing
disabilities—the Twice-Exceptional... Appropriate best
practices for the identification of twice-exceptional
learners, maintenance of their civil rights, and provision
of FAPE are offered for educators, parents, advocates, and
legislators as federal, state, and district laws/policies
evolve.
Question: What do you get when you mix a cappella, sock puppets, string
theory and Queen? Answer: The geekiest (and astonishingly good, musically
speaking) cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" ever!
Bohemian Gravity is the hit song from A Cappella Science, the Physics grad
student who brought us
Rolling in the Higgs last year. Listen to them both!
Acceleration is a powerful educational ally, but it’s a
strategy that requires participation of parents as well as sensitivity to
individual needs and circumstances. For that reason, this report is designed
not only to persuade readers of the value of acceleration, but also to help
schools administer acceleration programs effectively... Also read the
National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC) reply
Acceleration in Schools: A Call to Action and the
Personal Stories on the effects
of A Nation Deceived and acceleration...
"If our children do not get the opportunity to learn all they are able to
learn, it is because not enough people insist on appropriate education for
them..." Gina Ginsberg Riggs, "A Call for
Parent Advocacy," Understanding Our
Gifted
I can't explain this video. It's about music. And our brains, and
our search for patterns. And copyright law. And creativity.
And... Just watch it. All of it.
A subject that is little discussed is the social/emotional effects on
gifted children of being envied. It’s as if we are hoping that by not
talking about it, it will go away, and we will not run the risk of being
accused of bragging... even if the parents of gifted kids say nothing
about their children’s abilities, they are still often perceived as
committing some social transgression. The list of these transgressions
corresponds very closely to the negative stereotypes of gifted people...
June 2013
On Giftedness:
A Documentary by The Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted
This video is the first documentary The Daimon Institute made in 2011
on
Giftedness. Today they're looking for support for their next effort,
a 30-60 minute documentary to dispel prevalent myths about profoundly
gifted people, especially school-age children...
GTA is a FREE professional development experience designed
to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe
get the most from innovative technologies. Produced by CUE, each
Academy is an intensive, two-day event during which participants
get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other
technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies,
receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse
themselves in a supportive community of educators making
impact...
"If you have a gifted child, keep focused on your child’s
needs. Don’t underestimate her ability to “do it on her
own.” She needs your guidance. Advocate for her the best you
can. If you don’t have a gifted child, please don’t overlook
these children. Please don’t tell yourself or others that
these kids don’t need us or their schools. They ARE getting
left behind and they need our help. They are special kids
with special needs. It’s time we all start treating them
that way. Every child deserves a quality education. Even the
gifted child."
For more news, blogs, and timely resources, follow @HoagiesGifted on
Twitter, join over 10,000
members of the world-wide gifted community on Hoagies' Gifted
Education Page fan page on
Facebook, or Carolyn K. on
LinkedIn.
"In K-12 classrooms everywhere are children at risk for being misunderstood,
medically mislabeled, and educationally misplaced. Not limited to one gender,
race, ethnicity or socioeconomic group, they could be the children of your
neighbors, your friends, your siblings, and even yourself.
These at-risk children are gifted children.
Contrary to common stereotypes..."
Huffington Post:
The Misunderstood Face of Giftedness by Marianne Kuzujanakis, Director,
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
March 2013 Happy 16th Birthday!
March 17th, 2013 is Hoagies' Gifted Education Page's 16th Birthday!
And we couldn't do it without YOU! Click on Shop
Hoagies' Page before you do your online shopping, and click through to
any of Hoagies' Page's dozens of affiliate programs. It costs you
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Follow @HoagiesGifted on Twitter,
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page fan page on
Facebook, or Carolyn K. on
LinkedIn.
Different than Hoagies' Page updates, this feed includes timely short
articles and links for kids, and brain research and gifted education
features for the rest of us!
Your 15-year-old
follows you outside to talk to you in private, and checks that no one else
is around, then starts jumping up and down and screeching! Why?
Because it's a few days before she leaves for college, and she just found out that
her faculty advisor is also teaching her Calculus III course, AND doing
research on P-adic numbers systems!!!! -- Carolyn "what kind of number
systems?" K.
A sitter reads a story to your 2-year-old, with the words, "There was
a blizzard outside, and it was snowing," and he comments, "That's
redundant."
Your
homeschooled 12-year-old gets an A on his first college test and then
comments, "I suppose I'm in trouble--now that you know I've been
underachieving all these years." -- Norma
Your 18-month-old walks from the garage saying "all done" with a
screw driver in hand... and a wheel from the tricycle in the other. (yep! I
got pictures and 2 neighbors as witnesses...) And yes, she took it all
apart.
...When you
find "annular
frivolity" on your grocery list. Okay, mine are 19 and 16, but still, I had
to go look it up! -- Joni (Editor's note: click for your hint!)
You are thrilled to discover that you can negotiate with
your child at 15 months! Until he starts negotiating back at 18
months.
At lunch at a semi-fast-food restaurant, my 14-year-old
commented that the new cornbread isn't as good as the old cornbread. I
pointed out that it seems to be the same recipe, just a different shape.
That's the problem, she pointed out - it's got more surface area but less
volume than it used to. And she proceeded to set the volumes equal,
and calculate the surface area of the old brick-shaped cornbread vs. the
surface area of the new semi-spherical cornbread... Isn't this how all
young teens spend their lunch hours?? -- again, Carolyn K.
My not-quite-3-year-old likes using homonyms as a way of
giving me a hard time -- if I say I need a stamp, she'll ask, "Stamp? Like
with your feet?" and I'll say "No. I need to mail a letter." "A Letter? You
mean like A, B, C?" and so on. -- Donna
I took my
daughter to her 4-year-old check up. The pediatrician started asking her
developmental questions, pointing out letters both upper and lower case for
her to identify. Then the pediatrician asked my daughter if she could
count to ten. My daughter looked her right in the eye and said "Well, yeah,
I'm very intelligent!" The young intern who was working with the
pediatrician busted up laughing and asked the pediatrician
"Well, does that answer your question?" -- Julie
Tons of great gatherings, across the U.S., around the world, and
right at home via the Internet! Check here for this fall's great line-up
of gifted conferences, parent groups, and more...
Sometimes it's not a matter of making the best choice for your
child's education this year. Sometimes it's simply the least-worst choice
you can make. Here's an easy method to distill all those factors, and make
the least-worst choice you can for this school year...
Twice exceptional kids are both gifted and diagnosed with a
disability--often ADHD or an Autism Spectrum Disorder--leading teachers and
parents to overlook the child's talents and focus solely on his weaknesses.
Too often, these children get lost in an endless cycle of chasing diagnostic
labels and are never given the tools to fully realize their own potential.
Bright Not Broken sheds new light on this vibrant population by identifying
who twice exceptional children are and taking an unflinching look at why
they're stuck. The first work to boldly examine the widespread misdiagnosis
and controversies that arise from our current diagnostic system, it serves
as a wake-up call for parents and professionals to question why our mental
health and education systems are failing our brightest children...
Gifted kids are passionate... why aren't their reading lists,
too? Hot Topics Reading Lists start with the readers' passion... and then
offer tons of great reading choices, recommended for gifted kids by gifted kids.
Check out Hot Topics for
Early Readers,
Science Fiction / Fantasy,
Biographies,
Science, on
Being Gifted
and Social Stuff and lots more!
Do you have a Verizon FIOS network in your house? There are cell
phone / tablet apps to "generate" the default key for your house... that is, for
someone ELSE to generate the default key that came with your router, and that
you're likely USING!
The VZ Wi-fi Connect app claims to do just this. It says it cannot generate the
key for all Verizon FIOS networks, but we installed it and quickly logged into
our neighbor's password protected FIOS network. Privacy GONE.
We're off to change our new FIOS network key, by accessing our FIOS Router.
Username: admin, password: stamped on your FIOS router.
"The inborn traits of gifted children—as natural to them as their eye
color—are what make a gifted child…well, gifted. Which is why I am so
disturbed with the new definition of giftedness adopted recently by The
National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). Calling it “a bold
step” in her 2011 Presidential address to NAGC, Dr. Paula Olszewski-Kubilius
presented this new definition..."
Epsilon Camp, the summer program for EG/PG students who love
math, just announced it has raised the upper age limit to 11. Students attending
the 2-week (July 29 - Aug 12) camp will now be 8 to under 12 years old. Parent
workshop designed to help parents build the child's mathematical and social
maturity runs parallel to the student camp. Families live with their camper in
private suites with cooking facilities on the beautiful Colorado College campus
in Colorado Springs. Details at Epsilon
Camp
Summer math camp for Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted
students Epsilon Camp is for 8 to 10-year-olds who like math. It is an intensive
student camp & a parent workshop - running in parallel. Epsilon Camp 2012 will
be held at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. The two-week camp runs July
29 to August 12.
...your
almost-3 year old asks you for "homework" like her older brother has,
and you hand her a 1st grade math work book (the only thing you can find
right then that looks like "homework") and a crayon and tell her she can
draw in that. When you look up ten minutes later, you see that she has
completed the first three pages - correctly. When you ask her, puzzled,
how she even knew what to do since she can't read yet, she replies:
"There's an example on top of each page that shows you what to do. Duh."
-- Signe
My
6-year-old son came up with this restaurant joke: What kind of font do they
use in restaurants? Answer: Menuscript. -- Kathy
Your 4 year
old decides to finally show you how well she can read and write by
writing a letter to Santa all on her own in two minutes... requesting a
computer! -- Jenna
You're not a
*real* parent of a gifted child, until you've stepped on a Lego at 3 a.m. --
Shell
When your
just-turned-5-years-old simultaneously sucks his thumb AND excitedly watches
his new pre-algebra video!!! -- Heather
My son
recently lectured me on the incorrectness of using the word "empty" to
describe anything on earth, since technically unless we are discussing a
vacuum, there is air filling the space. He's 6. -- Sara
Your 7-year-old tells you, "The teachers are really nice people, all of them. And I
understand about other kids needing to learn. But sometimes I wonder - what
about me, in terms of learning?" -- Allison
My not-quite-3-year-old likes using
homonyms as a way of giving me a hard time -- if I say I need a stamp, she'll
ask, "Stamp? Like with your feet?" and I'll say "No. I need to mail a letter."
"A Letter? You mean like A, B, C?" and so on. -- Donna
Your 5-year-old
comforts you when you've got a cut by saying, "Don't worry, mummy, the
platelets will fix that."
The second time you try to use reverse psychology on your
two-year-old, she stands at the balcony, hands on hips, grinning down at you…
“Mom, I know what you’re doing.”
January 18 FREE! "State of the
Nation: Effective Advocacy Resources in a Challenging Climate"
w/ President Paula Olszewski-Kubilius & Executive Director Nancy
Green
January 25 "The NAGC Pre-K – Grade 12 Gifted Programming Standards: Getting Started"
w/
Susan Johnsen
Gifted kids are passionate... why aren't their reading lists,
too? Hot Topics Reading Lists start with the readers' passion... and then
offer tons of great reading choices, recommended for gifted kids by gifted kids.
Check out Hot Topics for
Early Readers,
Science Fiction / Fantasy,
Biographies,
Science, on
Being Gifted
and Social Stuff and lots more!
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Hoagies' Gifted Library contains the
greatest new and old books for gifted educators, parents, counselors and
psychologists, on topics from parenting to curriculum, social/emotional
development to minority gifted, and more!
March 17th, 2011 is Hoagies' Gifted Education Page's 14th Birthday!
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eGFI – Dream Up the Future
engineering Go For It! Explore Aerospace, Civil, Ocean, Agricultural,
Mechanical, Nuclear, Mining, Electric and lots more engineering!
Discover Engineering
water slides to skateboard parks, jet planes to oceanic exploration...
with videos, games, and more!
Search for your name; talk to private sites to remove your information.
Set up Google Alerts on your
name, and your spouse and kids names, to see new information as it's posted.
Search Naymz,
ZoomInfo, and
ZabaSearch to see what's known about
you. Unfortunately,
Snopes.com
believes there is no way to remove personal information from Zaba
information aggregator...
The answer is the same for the gifted child as for any other child: you
should test to answer a question. But first, understand what kinds of
tests there are, what tests do and don't tell us, when you should test, and lots
more...
"Promotion [in grade placement or subject matter] of
intellectually gifted children is simply another way of attempting to match the
curriculum to the child's abilities, not to accelerate those abilities.
Accordingly, the promotion of intellectually gifted children in no way
contradicts the accepted view of the limits of training on development, nor the
negative effects of hurrying. Indeed, the positive effects of promoting
intellectually gifted children provide additional evidence for the benefits of
developmentally appropriate curricula." Elkind, David (1988)
AccelerationYoung Children, 43(4),2. Linked in
Myths, Arguments and Red Herrings... and Acceleration...
Kids & Teens Links the best sites on the 'net,
organized by subject: brain teasers, math, multiplication, science, natural
science, for the love of words, physics, programming, space, young kids,
more!
Did you know? are links to the best internet research and articles on gifted education
topics,
are links to the most popular books and products for gifted children, their
parents and teachers. Don't miss any of these great resources!
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The doctor tells your 5-year-old she will give him some goop to put in his
sore eye, and he says, "Oh, you mean antibiotic ointment."
Your 15-year-old
follows you outside to talk to you in private, and checks that no one else
is around, then starts jumping up and down and screeching! Why?
Because it's a few days before she leaves for college, and she just found out that
her faculty advisor is also teaching her Calculus III course, AND doing
research on P-adic numbers systems!!!! -- Carolyn "what kind of number
systems?" K.
A sitter reads a story to your 2-year-old, with the words, "There was
a blizzard outside, and it was snowing," and he comments, "That's
redundant."
Your
homeschooled 12-year-old gets an A on his first college test and then
comments, "I suppose I'm in trouble--now that you know I've been
underachieving all these years." -- Norma
Your 18-month-old walks from the garage saying "all done" with a
screw driver in hand... and a wheel from the tricycle in the other. (yep! I
got pictures and 2 neighbors as witnesses...) And yes, she took it all
apart.
...When you
find "annular
frivolity" on your grocery list. Okay, mine are 19 and 16, but still, I had
to go look it up! -- Joni (Editor's note: click for your hint!)
Your almost 6-year-old asks how much longer it will be till we get there
and you answer, "we are going 70 miles an hour and it's 30 miles
away," and she says, "oh.......27 minutes."
I should have known my child was
gifted years ago when her teacher complained that she tuned out during class,
and seemed to have difficultly focusing on her work. Any parent that hands
their 6-year-old a book about ADD/ADHD to read and see if it sound like them,
should realize that their child is gifted!
Your 7-year-old awakens in the night and you find her devouring the last chapter of the
Harry Potter book she started reading earlier that day.
Your 5½-year-old daughter announces:
“I love you THIS much.” With the backs of her hands together. You see, “this means none” (palms together) “and this
means infinity!” (backs of hands together). -- Ambre
Instructablesstep-by-step collaboration:
showing what you make and how others can make it, in Variety Store
Poisson
Rouge
interactive games for our youngest - write simple music and play it back
- alphabet where the xylophone really plays - visual brain teasers -
and lots more!
in
Young
Kids
Google Earth
combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the
world's geographic information at your fingertips, now including the Oceans
and Mars!, in Geography and
Variety Store
Alice
Learn to Program Interactive 3D Graphics - easy enough for gifted
elementary kids, advertised for middle school through college (from
Carnegie Mellon University)
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August 2009
PC Security
Don't risk your PC and your identity!
Running a top-rated anti-virus program like Kaspersky, Avira (free
version available!), AVG (also free version!) or Trend Micro, or are you
still running old McAfee, Norton or Norman?
Virus definitions AND your virus engine updated daily?
July 2009 Total Solar Eclipse tomorrow (tonight, for
U.S.!)
Visit the
Exploratorium for great information and links to live feeds.
Totality begins at 20:14 EST this evening, July 21. Also
explore past eclipses, investigate eclipse photography, and more.
You can read our tweets (this is the new lingo) @HoagiesGifted.
Also find other great gifted resources, including @DukeTIP, @NAGCGifted,
@joelmcintosh (Prufrock Press), and more. Search on #gifted for
topical posts, too. Enjoy!
Grade Skipped and Successful Individuals
who skipped one or more grades, and are successful in their fields... from
scientist to actress to Nobel Prize winners...
Notable Homeschoolers So many children
throughout modern history have been home schooled, and then become highly
successful members of our society...
2e = Exceptional Squared! Successful
people who have capitalized on their exceptional learning styles!
A
series of easy-to-read, information-rich booklets on 2e topics that answer all
the tough questions and provide a terrific set of resources for additional
information. Available:
Understanding your Twice-Exceptional Student (for educators)
Parenting Your Twice-Exceptional Child (for parents)
The Twice-Exceptional Child with Asperger Syndrome
Guiding the
Twice-exception Child: A Collection of Columns by Meredith Warshaw
The 2e
Reading Guide: Essential Books for Understanding the Twice-exceptional Child
Did you DS take the SB-5 and score a FS 135? Perhaps you suspect
his CAPD or NVLD lowered the score? Or maybe you just want to find out
more about CTY, TIP or CTD?
What's the best strategy for your child: Grouping, DT-PI, Acceleration,
or a Magnet school? If your child is Dually Identified, is she covered
under IDEA, a 504, IEP, or GIEP?
November 2008 Smart Toys for Gifted Kids (and
Adults)... Lots of holiday gift ideas,
featuring old favorites and great new toys and games
that you won't find everywhere else,
many from small toy companies!
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page has a full text search function on every
page. Look in the upper right corner of every page, and type the word
or phrase you're looking for into the search box. Click "Go" and find
all occurrences of that word or term on Hoagies' pages. Just click on
the one you're looking for, and Voila -- you've found your answer!
If depression or thoughts or fears of suicide affect you or your child,
giftedness doesn't matter. First, take action: call a professional,
intervene. Next, use these resources, to again find a positive
direction in your life...
Depression and Suicide
Whether it is the death of a friend or relative, a stranger in another
land, or a beloved pet, death affects gifted children with a depth and power
that often takes us by surprise. Grief and
Mourning includes books and resources that gifted parents and
professionals have found useful...
Research-based essential information teachers need; definitions; levels
and types of giftedness; subjective and objective identification procedures;
social and emotional characteristics and needs; underachievement; teaching
strategies and methods of curriculum differentiation to enhance the learning
in the mainstream classroom; practical strategies for establishment and
monitoring of ability, achievement or interest grouping in classes, and the
many forms of accelerated progression through schooling. Offered for
three instructional ranges; early childhood, primary and secondary grade
levels. Don't let the Australian byline distract you; this is international
professional development at its best!
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Multiplication Products, sure to help kids learn their
facts, using electronic, board and card games, DVDs and
audio CDs, and books and software!
FlashMaster
by FlashMaster, Inc. Replaces flash
cards for +-*/ facts. Optional timer, sounds. Run missed problems, change
problem format, put the "variable" in any position. Fun for all, even 2e...
PC Magazine
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commentary on learning, learning differences and disabilities, including
gifted and visual learners, autism, dyslexia, attention deficit disorders,
sensory, visual, or auditory processing difficulties and more...
Unwrapping the Gifted
K-12 gifted education specialist Tamara Fisher discusses news and
developments, and offers advice for gifted teachers. An
EdWeek blog...
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Celestia
free space simulation lets you explore our universe in three dimensions
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The Chaos
Which rhymes with enough - Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Google Earth
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Griddlers.net
paint-by-number puzzles to solve online or offline
How Stuff Works
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Invention at Play
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NameVoyager
where does your name rank throughout history?
NationStates
create your own country, fashioned after your own political ideals, and care
for its people...
Ozy and Millie Where
did they find two gifted kids for this strip??
Planarity Game
Arrange the vertices such that no edges overlap
Powers of Ten
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move
through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude...
Renaissance Connection
Be a patron of the arts. Design your own innovation. Investigate Renaissance
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November 2013 Educational Fun!
A
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For
Educators...
The
Hurried Child
(occasional pg13
content)
I
don't know how to explain MCT's curriculum, except to
say... gifted students, no matter where their gifts lie, need
this curriculum. I had the honor of hearing Michael speak about his
Grammar Voyage and
The Magic Lens grammar
curricula and Practice Sentence
student workbook series... and I was enthralled. Please know, I am a
math-y and a computer geek - I do not do language arts, if I can help
it. But this curriculum made grammar interesting to me!
Word Within The Word offers middle
and secondary level, vocabulary-building curriculum that is like no other.
Sentence Island, Paragraph Town
and Essay Voyage form the elementary writing curriculum. And
there's much more... investigate all the
Michael Clay Thompson Language Arts
Curriculum. And read
Cathy
Duffy reviews... Michael Clay Thompson Language Arts
A
series of easy-to-read, information-rich booklets on 2e topics that answer all
the tough questions and provide a terrific set of resources for additional
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