Learning Highway

Challenge your gifted and talented to play the “game of life” and survive financially during their first year in college. This concept-based unit allows students to “earn” an inheritance from a distant relative by repurposing items from a barn. With this “money,” students find affordable housing, transportation, furnishings, and other essentials. Then the “game of life begins with monthly reoccurring expenses, opportunities to buy additional necessities and/or wants, as well as challenges or o

Many pull-out gifted and talented programs are ungraded. However students still need accountability for their growth, and parents need a good understanding of their child’s strengths and weaknesses. These progress-monitoring forms are designed to help teachers document student progress and share their observations with students and parents. *Revised July 2022 - Forms are now editable to add names for ease of use. I hope you will find these forms useful! This product includes:> Teacher Instruc

Create your own hybrid animal species? Why, yes, we can do that! In this unit, which utilizes the Talents Unlimited Model based on the work of Calvin Taylor and adapted by Carol Schlichter, students will do just that. While it's all good fun, they will be using creative and critical thinking skills that will help them be successful in all areas of life. Those include: productive thinking, decision-making, planning, communication, and forecasting. Come...take a walk on the wild side.... This

How do you learn? This gifted and talented unit challenges students to be introspective and create a product to metaphorically represent the way they learn. The unit explores metaphors and symbolism in photography. Students then go on a photo shoot to take pictures that symbolize them metaphorically. These photos are then editing using free web 2.0 photo editing software to create a final presentation with text and visuals. This unit not only addresses critical thinking skills, but affectiv

“Triplets” is a task card set that provides a fun way for students to practice vocabulary, critical thinking, analysis, and deductive thinking by finding commonalities in a group of words. “Triplets” is perfect for an anchor activity, station work, bell ringers, or large group work. This product includes: >Teacher Guide >40 Task Cards >Student Answer Document >Answer Key Helpful Tips for Purchasers: Get TPT credit to use on future purchases! Log in to your TpT account and go

Looking for a great anchor activity for your early finishers or a differentiated station activity for your advanced learners? Connect 4 is a categories game that encourages students to use their critical thinking skills to find patterns and connections in a puzzle grid of 16 pictures. The puzzles can be done independently, in pairs, small groups, or as a whole group activity. Students will find the puzzles with only pictures to be more challenging, however identical puzzles with labels are provi