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Stephanie Malcom Stephanie Malcom GT Coordinator Jessieville SDGT Coordinator Jessieville SD

This interactive session will present strategies that challenge students to use productive thinking and problem solving together with creativity in the core content areas. Let the arts enrich learning experiences, stimulate the senses and tickle the interest of advanced learners. Process and product choice will motivate students to take ownership in their own education. Varying instructional approaches and using combinations of content, process, and products will allow for adaptations that consider the needs, abilities, and interests of individual students.

What is “gifted”?• THERE IS NO FEDERAL DEFINITION• Varies by state

RENZULLI's3 Ring Model

GIFTED

Albert EinsteinWas he gifted?

• Above Average Intelligence• Task Commitment• Creativity

Different LearnersLearn Differently

Many Gifted Students are Visual–Spatial Learners

• Visual-spatial learners think in pictures rather than in words.

• They learn best visually. They learn all-at-once, and when the light bulb goes on, learning is permanent.

• They do not learn from repetition and drill. They are whole-part learners who need to see the big picture first before they learn the details.

• They are non-sequential, which means that they do not learn step-by-step. Creativity allows them to develop their own learning process.

Visual–Spatial Learners• May have difficulty with easy tasks, but show

amazing ability with difficult, complex tasks.• Tend to be organizationally impaired and

unconscious about time.• They also are very creative, dramatic, artistic and

musical.

You can tell you have one of these children by the endless amount of time they spend doing advanced puzzles, completing mazes, counting everything, building with any materials at hand, designing scientific experiments, or taking everything apart to see how it operates.

You may find that gifted students will finish their work early, and after becoming bored, disrupt other class members who are still working.

Gifted students need challenge & creativity to keep them engaged!

Multiple Intelligences• Linguistic – Highly

developed verbal skills • Logical/Mathematical –

Steps, patterns• Spatial – Artistic, visualizes• Naturalist – Sensitive to

natural phenomena• Bodily kinesthetic –

Excellent body/motor control, drama

• Musical – rhythms, beats• Interpersonal – High ability

to understand other individuals

• Intrapersonal – High ability to understand one’s self

GARDNER'STheory of MULTIPLEIntelligences

School is often not receptive to the highly gifted!

• Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.

• Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.• When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers

told him he was too stupid to learn anything.• A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because

he had ‘no good ideas.’• Winston Churchill flunked the 6th grade.• Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in

chemistry when he attended the Royal College.

Studies show that 20% of H.S. dropouts are gifted students.

From Theory to the Classroom

• Showing Our Funnybone– Fingerprint comic strips– Kreative Komix Comic Book

Maker• Mr. SLIF• Artwork that Measures Up!

Creative lesson ideas

Showing Our Funny Bone

Gifted Frameworks: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Self-Awareness

Multiple Intelligences: Visual/spatial, verbal, intrapersonal Interdisciplinary Connections: History, Science, ForensicsMaterials: long strips of white paper, ink pads, colored

pencils, wet wipes for easy clean-upInstructions: 1. Fold paper into fourths, separating equal sections with a vertical

pencil line2. Press thumb lightly and evenly on ink pad and transfer print onto

a section 3. Repeat process as desired4. Use prints to create cartoons Use as a follow-up lesson

after teaching fingerprint

types, careers in forensic

science, historical political

cartooning or propaganda.

Showing Our Funny Bone!

• Gifted Frameworks: Critical thinking, creativity, technology

• Multiple Intelligences: Visual/spatial, verbal• Interdisciplinary Connections: History,

science, creative writing• Materials: Kreative Komix software

http://www.kreativekomix.com/Titles: Science, US History, Dinosaurs, Science Fiction, Fairy Tale, Super Hero

Tell a story, invent characters, make your own graphic story, print or play on screen

Mr. SLIF• RESEARCH• CREATIVITY• SELF-AWARENESS

Gifted Frameworks

Multiple Intelligences•Kinesthetic•Naturalistic•Interpersonal•Musical

BONUS: WE USED

RECYCLED

MATERIALS

Mr. SLIF Room 206Types of Bones• Short (wrists, ankles)

• Long (arms, legs)

• Irregular (spine, face)

• Flat (skull, ribs, chest)

There are 206 skeletal bones in the human body.

Without our skeletons,

we would be shapeless

mass, just like a

jellyfish.

Interdisciplinary Connections: Students learn the scientific names for the bones that comprise the human skeleton, the types and number of human bones, and functions of bones with the assistance of Ron Clark’s CD The Essential Raps!

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The Essential Raps! By Ron Clark

Multiple Intelligences:Integrates music into the classroom to appeal to musical/rhythmic learners.

Artwork that Measures Up!Big Idea: Interdisciplinary connections between art and standard measurements Art Element: Lines and basic geometric shapes K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Students

Fast Fact: Henri Matisse used simple lines and designs to create paper collages

Artwork that Measures Up!Gifted Frameworks: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Self-AwarenessMultiple Intelligences: Logical/Mathematical, Visual/Spatial, KinestheticInterdisciplinary Connections: Art techniques and history, standard units of

measurement, motor skillsMaterials: colored construction paper, rulers, scissors, pencils Instructions:1. Choose 2 colors of construction paper and get 2 of each color2. Mark off the short side for every one inch3. Slide ruler to other side and repeat step 2 (sliding the ruler ensures your

marks are perfectly aligned)4. Connect the dots making long one inch stripes5. Repeat with other 3 sheets of construction paper6. Cut one of each color along the lines creating colored strips7. Paste colored strips on other two sheets, alternating colors in a pattern (red,

blue, red, blue…)8. You now have 2 sheets of construction paper with alternating colored stripes.

On the back of one, draw large simple figures. (REM: Keep It Simple Students)

9. Cut out figure(s) 10. Align figure(s) to the other sheet matching ends to opposite colors on the

sheet (EX: the red lines on the figure aligns with the blue lines on the sheet) 11. Secure figures with glue

Integrate this activity into the Bones

Unit by having students draw things

that help build strong bones, such as

healthy foods or exercise.

Student Showcase• Display research and projects in the

classroom or outside the door• Present student work to parents

– During parent/teacher conference– Invite parents for a lunch visit– Have parents drop by during the GT pull-out time

• Collaborate with Home Economics teacher or cafeteria to have students prepare snacks to serve to parents.– This hands-on activity will have students poking

parents to come!

Cookie Ingredients: 1 cup butter, softened1 cup powdered sugar1 egg1 teaspoon vanilla extract2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour1 teaspoon baking powder1 teaspoon salt1/2 cup sliced almonds2 tablespoons Icing Glue

Icing Glue Ingredients: 1/4 cup powdered sugar1 teaspoon water

Preparation1. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter until

smooth and creamy. 2. Add the sugar, egg, and vanilla extract and mix

well. 3. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt and beat

until completely mixed. 4. Cover the dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes. 5. Preheat the oven to 325°F. 6. With your hands, roll a heaping tablespoon of

dough into a finger shape for each cookie. If the dough gets sticky and hard to work with, put it back in the refrigerator for a little while. Place fingers on an ungreased cookie sheet about 3 inches apart.

7. Use a butter knife to make knuckle marks on the finger cookies. Slightly flatten the front of the finger to create a nail.

8. Bake 20-25 minutes, until fingers are slightly golden. Remove from the oven and let cool.

9. Meanwhile, prepare the Icing Glue. Mix together powdered sugar and water in a small bowl until the consistency is similar to that of a paste.

9. Attach almond slice fingernails to the tips of the fingers with Icing Glue. Let glue dry for about 30 minutes.

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Finger Food Cookies