Resource List

Web Sites

•  www.nagc.org The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
•  www.watg.org  Wisconsin Association Talented & Gifted
• www.wiarted.org  Wisconsin Art Association--Good source for activities for students related to art
• www.wcaty.org  Wisconsin Center for Academically Talented Youth
• www.sengifted.org Supporting Emotional Needs of Gifted
• www.hoagiesgifted.org Hoagies Gifted Education Page

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General Information

• Center for Creative Learning www.creativelearning.com
• Center for Gifted Education, College of William and Mary http://cfge.wm.edu
• Center for Talent Development, Northwestern Univ. www.ctd.northwestern.edu
• Davidson Institute for Talent Development www.ditd.org
• Duke Talent Identification Program and Motivation for Academic Performance  www.tip.duke.edu
• Gifted Development Center www.gifteddevelopment.com
• GT World www.gtworld.org
• HOTS Higher Order Thinking Skills www.hots.org
• Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children www.hollingworth.org
• Hoagies; Gifted Education Page www.hoagiesgifted.org
• Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/links.html
• National Association for Gifted Children Parenting for High Potential www.nagc.org
• National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children www.nfgcc.org
• SENG Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted www.sengifted.org

Summer Programs

• List available from http://www.nagc.org/resources-publications/resources-parents/planning-summer
• Summer Institute for the Gifted (grades 4-11) held at various locations  www.giftedstudy.com
• Summer Gifted Studies Program (grades 4-8) at the University of Southern Mississippi  www.usm.edu/gifted/Sum_Gifted_Studies.html
• THINK Summer Institute by the Davidson Institute http://www.davidsongifted.org/think/

Publications

• Arlie Books www.arliebooks.com
• Free Spirit Publishing www.freespirit.com
• Gifted Children Monthly www.gifted-children.com
• Gifted Education Press www.giftededpress.com
• Great Potential Press http://greatpotentialpress.com
• National Geographic Kids www.nationalgeographic.com
• National Wildlife Federation www.nwf.org/kids
• Patrick’s Press (academic quizzes) www.patrickspress.com
• Pieces of Learning www.piecesoflearning.com
• Prufrock Press Gifted Child Today www.prufrock.com

Curriculum Support, Activities, and Competitions

• ACT American College Testing www.act.org
• Amazing Kids www.amazing-kids.org
• American Computer Science League www.acsl.org
• American Memory Project http://memory.loc.gov
• American Museum of Natural History www.AMNH.org
• American Physical Society (physics) www.aps.org/studentsandeducators/index.cfm
• Annenberg Learner (variety) www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/patterns/index.html
• AP Advanced Placement http://apcentral.collegeboard.com
• Apex Learning www.apexlearning.com
• A Plus Math www.aplusmath.com
• Artifact Box www.artifactbox.com
• Arts Edge www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org
• Best of History Web Sites www.besthistorysites.net
• BEST Robotics www.bestinc.org
• BrainBashers www.brainbashers.com
• Brain Cake www.braincake.org
• Christopher Columbus Awards www.christophercolumbusawards.com
• Cool Math http://coolmath4kids.com/index.html
• Count On www.counton.org
• Create a Graph http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing
• Cyberchase Games http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games.html
• Destination Imagination http://destinationimagination.org
• Digital History www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
• DigiTales www.digitales.us
• Do History www.dohistory.org/home.html
• Do Something www.dosomething.org
• E-coach (literacy) www.my-ecoach.com/resources/litconnect.html
• EconEd www.econedlink.org
• EDSITEment (humanities and social studies) http://edsitement.neh.gov
• Eduscapes (variety of topics) http://eduscapes.com
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science http://www.goenc.com
• Engineer Your Life www.engineeryourlife.org
• E-pals www.epals.com
• Eric Weisstein’s World of Mathematics http://mathworld.wolfram.com
• Experimental Musical Instruments www.windworld.com
• Explore Learning www.explorelearning.com
• Exploratorium Science Museum www.exploratorium.edu
• Eyewitness to History www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html
• Figure This! www.figurethis.org/index.html
• GEMS-Great Explorations in Math and Science http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/gems
• Glencoe Math Links www.glencoe.com/sec/math/cool/index.htm
• Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes www.barronprize.org
• Grey Labyrinth www.greylabyrinth.com/index.htm
• History is Fun www.historyisfun.org
• History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu
• How Stuff Works www.howstuffworks.com
• Hubble Telescope http://hubblesite.org
• International Baccalaureate Organization www.ibo.org
• Jamestown  http://www.virtualjamestown.org/
• JASON Project www.jasonproject.org
• Junior Great Books www.greatbooks.org
• Kid Publishing www.kidpub.com
• Kids Click! (variety) http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!
• Kids Online Resources (all subjects) www.kidsolr.com
• Lego League www.firstlegoleague.org
• Let’s Get Real www.lgreal.org/index.shtml
• Magic Tricks www.kidzone.ws/magic/index.htm
• Math Archives http://archives.math.utk.edu/index.html
• MATHCOUNTS http://mathcounts.org
• Math-kitecture www.math-kitecture.com
• Mathematics Pentathlon www.mathpentath.org
• Math Forum@Drexel http://mathforum.org
• Math League www.mathleague.com
• Math Olympiads http://www.moems.org
• Meet Me at the Corner (kids submit video as virtual field trips) www.meetmeatthecorner.org
• Microsociety www.microsociety.org
• Mindware games www.mindwareonline.com
• Model UN www.nmun.org
• Mudd Math Fun Facts www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts
• Mysteries http://kids.mysterynet.com
• Nate the Great www.randomhouse.com/kids/natethegreat
• National Archives Digital Classroom www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index
• National Gallery of Art www.nga.gov
• National Geographic Expeditions www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions
• National History Day www.nationalhistoryday.org
• National Math Trail www.nationalmathtrail.org
• National Science Resources Center www.nsrconline.org
• National Youth Science Camp www.nysc.org
• Natural Math www.naturalmath.com
• NCTE Promising Young Writers Program  http://www.ncte.org/awards/student/pyw
• New York Times Learning Page www.nytimes.com/learning
• News Bowl www.newsbowl.com
• Newseum www.newseum.org
• Odyssey of the Mind www.odysseyofthemind.org
• Origin of Words and Names www.krysstal.com/wordname.html
• Paper Airplanes www.funpaperairplanes.com
• Philosophy Slam www.philosophyslam.org
• Project Learning Tree www.plt.org
• Reader’s Theater www.aaronshep.com
• Reference Desk www.refdesk.com
• San Francisco Symphony for Kids www.sfskids.org
• SAT Scholastic Aptitude Test www.collegeboard.org
• Science Club http://scienceclub.org
• Science Daily (latest developments) www.sciencedaily.com
• Science Friday (National Public Radio program) http://www.sciencefriday.com/home/index.html
• Science Hobbyist www.eskimo.com/~billb
• Science Made Simple www.sciencemadesimple.com
• Science Net www.sciencenetlinks.com
• Science Olympiad www.soinc.org
• Simon Tatham’s Puzzles www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles
• Smithsonian Institute Exhibits www.si.edu/exhibitions
• Stock Market Game www.smgww.org
• Student News Net (journalism) www.studentnewsnet.com
• Survey Monkey (create your own survey) www.surveymonkey.com
• Team America Rocketry Challenge www.rocketcontest.org
• Thinkfinity http://thinkfinity.org (with partner links)
• ThinkQuests www.thinkquest.org
• Traveler IQ Challenge (world geography game) www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
• UCSB ScienceLine www.scienceline.ucsb.edu
• Ultimate Puzzle www.dse.nl/puzzle/index_us.html
• Veteran’s History Project www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/vets-home.html
• Virtual Architecture http://virtual-architecture.wm.edu
• Virtual Book Club http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic112.htm
• Virtual Manipulatives (math) http://nlvm.usu.edu/nav/vlibrary.html
• Visual Thesaurus www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
• Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE) http://wise.berkeley.edu
• Webquests (variety) www.webquest.org
• What Kids Can Do (community service) www.whatkidscando.org
• Women’s Adventures in Science www.iwaswondering.org
• Word Central www.wordcentral.com
• Word Masters Challenge  www.wordmasterschallenge.com
• World of Escher www.worldofescher.com/contest