BACKGROUND RESOURCES
 

KidSource Gifted Index	http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/ed.gifted.html
Georgia Teacher Resource Center Gifted Site	http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/trc/cluster.asp?mode=browse&intPathID=3359
Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom	http://ericec.org/digests/e513.html
Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students	http://ericec.org/digests/e510.html
Developing Thinking Skills in the Gifted	http://www.penngifted.org/bulletins/b3.html
Bloom's Taxonomy Approach	http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html
Top Three Taxonomy  Levels for Gifted	http://www.teachersfirst.com/gifted/strategies.html#bloom
Bloom's Questioning Strategies	http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/litpack/bloom_handout.htm
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Defined	http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/LEARNING/3mides.htm
Multiple Intelligences Links	http://celt.uwsp.edu/project/Innovations/Multiple%20Intelligences/mi_links.htm
Dual Exceptionalities	http://www.teachersfirst.com/sped/gt/430344-gt-dis.html

PROMOTING CREATIVITY, CHARACTER, AND CRITICAL THINKING
 

20 Ways to Creativity in Your Students	http://enc.org/focus/inquiry/document.shtm?input=FOC-000715-index
The Creativity Web	http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/index2.html
The Genius Gallery	http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/Genius/gallery.html
Character Counts Lesson Plans	http://www.charactercounts.org/ideas/ideatoc.htm
Books for Character Development	http://www.calvertnet.k12.md.us/instruct/characterdev.shtml
Heartwood Institute Ethics-Building	http://www.heartwoodethics.org/
Good Character Teaching Resources	http://www.goodcharacter.com/
Laws of Life Essay Contest	http://www.lawsoflife.org/index.html
Critical Thinking Activities	http://www.ptsc.k12.in.us/wr/user/libinfo/pba/websites.htm
Sloane's List of Lateral Thinking Puzzles	http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~arlet/puzzles/lateral.html
Critical Thinking Exercises in Biology	http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/life/critical.mhtml

 

SAMPLING OF INTERACTIVE/CHALLENGE SITES BY DISCIPLINE

LANGUAGE ARTS
 

International Children's Digital Library	http://www.icdlbooks.org/index.html
Assorted Word Games, Puzzles	http://www.thinks.com/
Online Crossword Puzzles	http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/cp.html
Word Games	http://www.wordcentral.com/
More Word Games	http://www.nanana.com/wordgames.html
Syndicate Crossword MetaSite	http://syndicate.com/crossword.html
Language Across Borders - Interactive	http://www.lab.emu.dk/showstall.php?pageid=31
Interactive Poetry Site	http://www.csd.net/~cantelow/poem_welcome.html
Newslink -- newspapers/radio/tv	http://www.newslink.org
Literature Trivia Links	http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/hamel/littriv.html
First Lines of Books - Lit Trivia	http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/jad22/
Trivia Metasite	http://www.weeuniverse.com/trivia.html

MATH
 

Maths Challenge	http://www.mathschallenge.net/
Alvirne's Calculus Problem of the Week	http://www.seresc.k12.nh.us/www/alvirne.html
Advanced Math Challenge Problems	http://www.csmt.ewu.edu/csmt/math/challenge.htm
Math Olympiads for Middle School	http://www.moems.org/
Flash Cards	http://www.edu4kids.com/math/
Girls to the Fourth Power Algebra	http://www.stanford.edu/~meehan/xyz/girls4.html
Math Tables	http://www.sisweb.com/math/tables.htm
Beat the Calculator	http://mathforum.org/k12/mathtips/beatcalc.html
Internet Projects for Elementary Statistics	http://hepg.awl.com/weiss/e_iprojects/
Student Challenge Projects	http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel//Math.html

SCIENCE
 

Kids' Design Network	http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/kdn/
More Engineering Problems	http://www.motionsystemdesign.com/default.asp?section=funwithfundamentals
The "Why" Files	http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/
Kid's Online Science Games	http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/gamesscience/index.htm?terms=science+games
Science Web -- Check out the activities	http://www.scienceweb.org/features.html
Windows to the Universe -- Activities	http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
NASA's Online Resources for Educators	http://education.nasa.gov/internet.html
Cool Science for Curious Kids	http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/

Social Studies
 

EduPlace Current Events Quiz	http://www.eduplace.com/ss/current/direction.html
Current Events Quiz	http://www.wadsworth.com/politicalscience_d/ce_quiz.html
Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook	http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
CIA Home Page for Kids	http://www.cia.gov/cia/ciakids/index.html
Look Who's Footing the National Debt	http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/democracy/debtquest.html
Cybrary of the Holocaust	http://remember.org/
NY Times Weekly Current Events Quiz	http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/quiz/

INTERACTIVE GAMES
 

Web Puzzler	http://imagiware.com/puzzle/
Online Wordsearches	http://www.clearlight.com/~vivi/xw/wordsearch.html
Online Puzzles	http://www.jigzone.com/
Online Jigsaw Puzzles	http://www.dltk-kids.com/puzzle.htm
Yahoo Interactive Games -- Try out Chess	http://games.yahoo.com/