Kenneth J Smith

Challenging Units for Gifted Learners

Teaching the Way Gifted Students Think (Social Studies, Grades 6-8)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Social Studies book includes units that ask students to explore the struggles of America's first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, hold an African economic summit, study various Supreme Court cases and primary source documents, and create a Civil War documentary that views the war from the aspect of a person living in a particular state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 281mm x 216mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781593634223
• ISBN-10: 1593634226
• Artikelnr.: 29947539

Autorenporträt

Kenneth J. Smith, Ph.D., works at Sunset Ridge School District 29 in Northfield, IL, a suburb of Chicago. He currently runs the district-wide enrichment program. In 1995, Ken earned his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Columbia University in New York. He was an American Memories fellow for the Library of Congress, and his articles have appeared in The Middle School Journal and Gifted Child Today.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction: We Are Intellectual Archaeologists
Chapter 2 What Are They Thinking? The Cognitive Processes of Gifted
Learners Chapter 3 It's Not Easy Being Queen: The Story Behind America's
First Colonies Chapter 4 Competing Voices: A Simulation of Antebellum
America Chapter 5 The Supreme Court: A Simulation Chapter 6 An African
Economic Summit References About the Author Common Core State Standards
Alignment