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The research book for gifted programs, K-8
Grades: K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
ENC#: ENC-031588
Edition: 2001 revised edition.
Publisher: Pieces of Learning
Date: 2001
Ordering Information
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Subjects:
 | General education
Gifted and talented. Research techniques. |
Resource Type:
Lessons and activities; Professional development.
Abstract:
This resource book for teachers of gifted students in grades K-8 offers hundreds of activities to aid the gifted student in developing research skills. The activities are differentiated to speak to the specific needs of individual gifted students, many of whom may already be independent thinkers and fluent learners. A research skills taxonomy checklist helps teachers manage student skill levels before they proceed with activities. Students use resources to complete the activities, including a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, almanac, and the Internet. The first of five sections offers activities to develop thinking skills, such as selecting words to describe a snowball and using context clues in critical reading. The second section provides practice with such research skills as deciding what resource to use to look up a map of Canada or another word for conservation. The final three sections provide appropriate activities for primary grades, middle grades, or grades 7-8. The primary section offers hands-on observational activities, picture book research, and practice using simple reference tools. The middle-grade section includes an introduction to the research process and forms for note taking, as well as directions for outlining, writing bibliographies, and creating a mini-newspaper. The grade 7-8 section includes instructions for how to take a poll and how to research historical decisions. Research cards at all three levels suggest project topic questions for independent research. (Author/DKK)
Table of Contents:
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Introduction
Relating characteristics of the gifted to instruction
Model for research and independent study activities
Section 1. Thinking skills
Productive thinking: fluency
Mind stretchers
Flexibility, originality
Elaboration, critical thinking-planning, forecasting
Decision making
Evaluation, creative problem solving
Creative problem solving worksheet
Critical reading
Forming concepts
Judging sources
Defending
Analyzing
Working from a hypothesis
Communication skills
Identifying levels of thinking
Tag-a-talent board
Check your thinking skills for independent study test 1
Check your thinking skills for independent study test 2
Section 2. Research skills for gifted students
To begin: the skills of search
A taxonomy of research skills
Primary dictionary skills: frog and toad
Intermediate dictionary skills: incognito titles
Intermediate encyclopedia skills: track down
Intermediate encyclopedia skills: reference math
Intermediate encyclopedia skills: tic-tac-toe with animal facts
Intermediate encyclopedia skills: Mei Lei
Traveling the information superhighway
How do we know it is true?
Dewey decimal system: baffling battles
Dewey decimal system: mythology mystery
Using reference sources
Atlas practice
Useful quick reference handbooks
Life of a truck driver
Almanac practice
Researching the fifty states
Reference source quick check
Section 3. Research activities for primary grades
Observational research cards
Calendars, hair
Homes, desserts
Soda straws, balls
Potatoes, shoes
Learning about apples
Looking around our school
Windows and doors
ABCs of non fiction research: 26 activities
Beginning encyclopedia research: ocean creatures
Beginning encyclopedia research: insects
Beginning encyclopedia research: birds
Beginning encyclopedia research: community helpers
Book research cards
Dinosaurs, mammoths, microbes
Oxygen, planets, bigfoot
Salt, rot, more dinosaurs
Lizards, animal weapons, caves
Icebergs, Mars, scientists
Cocoa, zoo babies, creatures with pockets
Volcanoes, whales, the sea
UFO's, national parks, Native Americans
Forests, robots, Loch Ness monster
Seahorses, eskimos, jungles
Snails, microscopes, the moon
Alligator, octopus, the brain
Glaciers, Australia, pollution
Signals and messages, the universe, spiders
The sea, teeth, experiments
My research project
Section 4. Research activities for middle grades
The research process
A story to share with young researchers
State the problem
List known information
List questions
List sources
Locate sources
Acquire information
Take notes
Outline
Prepare the finished product and share it
Ideas for products
Note taking form
Bibliography form
Outline form
Interviewing form
Summary sheet
Evaluation
Research cards
Automobiles, explorers
Inventors, Paul Revere's ride
Money, horses
Colonial America, Stonehenge
Plants, food chain
Preserving the earth, our fifty states
Animal records, sharks
Culture comparison charts
Mini-newspaper
Newspaper research cards side one
Project: produce a mini-newspaper based on a work of fiction (Mary Poppins)
Animals in the news
The newspaper and productive thinking
Propaganda techniques
Propaganda road games
Learning about gifted people
A study of biography: using Bloom's taxonomy
Images of greatness
Biography: inventors
The annual arts award
Birthday of H.G. Wells
Birthday of Daniel Boone
Section 5. Research activities for grades 7-8
Making the goal in research
Process the product
Asking good questions
Research cards: upper grades
Alcoholism, biography
Capital punishment, ERA
Folk literature, future studies
Future studies 2, great goofs!
Leadership, lyrics (rock)
Stock market, TV shows
Develop a comparison chart
Taking a poll
Learning styles
Leadership
Kohlberg's stages of moral development
Crossroads
Which method
Researching historical decisions
Power
Field investigation: the cemetery
Putting it all together
Producing a community reference publication
Information sheet 1: the almanac
Planning sheet 1: almanac planning sheet
Information sheet 2: the atlas
Planning sheet 2: atlas planning sheet
Information sheet 3: the biographical dictionary
Planning sheet 3: biographical dictionary planning sheet
Information sheet 4: reference book
Planning sheet 4: reference book planning sheet
Producing a local history reference book
Evaluation
Answer key
Pricing Information:
 | Description: 1 text (paperback) | Cost: $21.95 | ISBN: 978-1-880505-91-5 | Order#: CLC0252 | |
Publisher:
Pieces of Learning Notes:
Terms governing use and reproduction: Permission is granted, therefore, to the buyer-one teacher-to reproduce student activity pages in limited quantities for students in the buyer's classrooom only. Contributor(s):
| Author: Nancy Polette. |
Specifications:
1 text (176 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.)
Record Created: 12/21/2004 Last Modified: 06/08/2005
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