This Duke TIP interdisciplinary curriculum for gifted elementary and middle school students explores architecture from both ancient and modern times, teaching students how to use the built environment as a lens for understanding different cultures.
Creative Writing Preassessment: We’re All Storytellers
This post provides video and other materials for teaching an introductory pre-assessment lesson that helps you gauge your gifted students’ storytelling and creative writing skills. This lesson is part of a 10-lesson Common Core-aligned unit on creative writing for gifted elementary and middle school students.
The Art of the Follow-up Question
Redirecting Verbosity
Redirecting Independence
Set the Scene in PBL
Problem-based learning may be open-ended and ill-structured, but problem scenarios require well-defined characters, plot, and setting. Setting the scene right–with high-stakes, high-impact specifics–helps students understand the importance of the conundrum they’re about to tackle. What elements are key to your scenarios?
Tune in to the Tuning Protocol
Book Talk: A Wrinkle in Time
Paths of Pathogens: Take Charge of that Petting Zoo!
This post provides video and other materials for teaching a lesson on pathogen paths and public health. This lesson is excerpted from an eight-lesson unit on disease, medicine, and epidemiology for gifted elementary and middle school students. This activity is the precursor to students tackling a medical mystery of illness at the State Fair.
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