Introduction
Enrichment Activities for Gifted & Talented Children contains 99 enrichment activities for use with gifted and talented students secondary schools. These enrichment activities may be used to further raise the achievement of able pupils at secondary school.
Benefits
This publication will provide opportunities for:
- self-direction; independence of thought and action; and development of leadership and communication skills
- individual attention such that the child will find it necessary to discuss options with their peers, their curriculum extension teacher and other adults
- extensive reading, should the learner so desire
- originality and imagination to be demonstrated through problem-solving, creativity, sensitivity, logic and reasoning.
Summary of contents
Whether you have many years’ experience of working with the gifted and talented child, or you find yourself managing a group for the first time, we feel confident this book will provide you with many projects, activities and ideas that will assist you in enriching the education and lives of your students.
This easy-to-use resource is designed to offer the G&T teacher access to differentiated enrichment extension activities. These activities have all been tested with gifted and talented children and are divided into three main sections for instant use by a teacher:
- differentiated, enrichment and extension classroom activities in 10 minutes
- differentiated, enrichment and extension classroom activities which are lesson length
- differentiated, enrichment and extension activities of longer duration and beyond the timetable.
Chapter breakdown
Differentiated classroom enrichment and extension activities that work
Enrichment and extension activities and programmes
Enrichment activities in 10 minutes
Ten little words
What time do you call this then?
Signatures bingo
Walking on clouds
Character portraits
Tableau
Absolute max
Countdown
Inuit – Inuktitut
Milko
In the style of
Topsy-turvy
Festival
Web-walking backwards
Birthdays
The perfect drink
Turn the carpet
Soft sculptures
The anthropopathy of furniture
Who are they?
Thinking inside the box
Beginning, middle and end
Let me explain
What's the game?
Noises off
When it's not cloudy and wet
Circular stories
Railwaymania
Stationmaster
Postcards
Spymaster or Who am I?
Identity crisis
Conversational hats
Sumptuary Laws
Rabbits
The boat race
Damsels and dragons
360˚ Vermeer
The right question?
Chat lines
Homograph
If Marilyn Monroe met...
Keeping calm: ten stress reducers
Scottish legends
Missing words
Cats and dogs
Consequences
Cat and mouse
Bridging the gap
Five words – three things
Mime name is
Trading places
What's the story?
Barbershop quartet
Name the hours
Paintings of people
Mess in space
Circular biographies
Genetically modified flowers
Famous people
Book reviews
Reduced anecdotes
The word, question and poem
Suggestions
Personal analogies
All in a daze work
Lexopolis
Ear 'ere… or there or where?
A map of life
If I could change one thing
The last book for sale
What's the use of that?
A singular activity
Planning a long trip
Lesson-length enrichment
Seven wonders
Obituaries
A question of sovereignty
A new capital for Denmark
Palindromic numbers
Anglo-Saxon alphabet
Champollion makes a start
Grimms’ fairy tale
Netting favourites
Building Buddha
Change the world
Problems that cannot be solved
A new film classification system
Russian times Elizabethan
All-day enrichment and longer
Animals of imagination
Gagarin and 108 minutes
Alternative architecture
Olympians
How heavy is the Isle of Man?
Peaks and troughs
Designs on the future
Fingertip feeling
Who made Nelson's hats?
Light fiction
Review and evaluation
Details
Loose-leaf, 297 x 210, 300 Pages, Published 04/2005
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