Gifted Enrichment Ideas
Stretching Thinking During the Closures
Fun, Meaningful Learning Opportunities
While these unprecedented closures can provoke uncertainty in educators and parents alike, the educational changes this past week can provide an incredible opportunities for advanced learners to “dive deeply” into content and to explore ideas in ways that might not otherwise be available. The ideas below give some creative ways to offer extensions and/ or challenge to your gifted and talented learners.
Ways to use these ideas:
1. Replacement: if your students are “breezing through” the material you’ve provided, allow them to choose one of the options/ items below as a replacement activity or project.
2. Extension: offer the ideas below to any students who would like to learn more. (Possibly offer extra credit …)
3. Exploration: allow students to use the ideas below as a “springboard”. Perhaps the students create their own projects/ activities, submit the idea(s) to you, and you as the teacher approve/ deny their project requests.
Virtual Field Trips
Explore the World!
To begin exploring, click these links: List of Virtual Field Trips
Click for a Field Trip Log Sheet.
WebQuests
Project Gutenberg
(More info: "Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to 'encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks'. It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books.") Note: archive.org is a similarfree resource and also includes software. (Yes, you can even play "old-school" favorites like Math Blaster, Oregon Trail, and The Factory.)
Midwest Regional Educational Service Center
Email: registrar@mresc.org
Website: www.mresc.org
Location: Discovery Center, Ohio 47, Bellefontaine, OH, USA
Phone: 937-599-5195
Twitter: @MidwestRegESC