Websites for Gifted Elementary Students
in the Regular Classroom
Teachers First
http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/gifted/strategies.html
Site with Tips for Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom
This website is geared towards regular classroom teachers. It provides explanations of gifted students’ needs and links to ideas for in-class enrichment for them.
Bright Hub Education
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-gifted-students/89083-suggested-supplies-for-gifted-education-classrooms/?cid=parsely_rec
Suggested Supplies for a Gifted Education Classroom
While this site is geared towards gifted teachers, it is a great resource for regular classroom teachers with gifted students. Many of the supplies listed on this website would work well for a regular classroom as well.
Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/
The “All Things Gifted” Page
This is an amazing resource for teachers, parents, and students. There are articles, discussions, activities, and anything else you could want in relation to gifted education on this site. It’s a great site for anyone who knows a gifted student.
Exquisite Minds
http://www.exquisite-minds.com/
Gifted and Creative Children Resources
Like Hoagies’ site, this is a resource for teachers, parents, and kids. There are lots of curriculum differentiation ideas as well as forums and games. Great for teachers to show to parents of gifted students.
Rhode Island State Advisory Committee on Gifted and Talented Education
http://www.ri.net/gifted_talented/rhode.html
Information and Resources about Gifted Education
While this site is geared towards Rhode Island, it has invaluable resources for parents, teachers, and students. There are activities, descriptions of giftedness, programs, advocacy forums, and more. A great site for teachers to pass on to parents.
Education.com
http://www.education.com/topic/learning-disability-gifted-children/
Twice Exceptional Resources
This is a subsection of education.com that has many articles and resources for gifted students with learning disabilities. Regular classroom teachers can find answers for questions about their twice exceptional students here.
Atlanta Public Schools
http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/Page/21024
Atlanta Public School System’s Gifted Education Page
Here teachers can find information about all of the different gifted programs available in Atlanta. If their school does not currently use any of these programs, teachers can suggest them to the gifted teacher. There are also resources for parents, enrichment activities, and a section that kids can explore on their own. There are many uses for this site in connection to gifted students, their parents and teachers.
Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Lesson_Plans.html
Exceptional Lesson Plans
This site boasts the top 5% lesson plans in terms of quality. For busy teachers who want to add enriching activities to their lessons, they can find many ideas in these lesson plans.
Cloud Net
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edgifted.html
Lesson Plans for Teaching Gifted and Talented Students
This site has links to a ton of lesson plans geared towards the gifted student. Teachers can get ideas from these lesson plans and incorporate them into the regular classroom.
Discovery Education
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/brainboosters/
Brain Boosters
These are great, quick logic problems to challenge the critical thinking skills of the gifted students in the classroom. Other students in the classroom could also benefit from a reflection on how the gifted students came to those conclusions.
Gifted Children.Web
http://giftedchildren.webs.com/
Fun and Challenging Activities for Gifted Children
This site has some great ideas for stimulating activities for gifted kids. These can be done at home or in the classroom independently. There is also a game of the week, which teachers can easily re-create.
Multiple Intelligence Activities
http://www.epd86.org/tech/aurora/bierdeman/activities.html
The Great Eight
Here are links to activities that target Gardner’s multiple intelligences. Teachers can use this site to find enrichment activities for gifted students who display an extreme talent in one of the eight intelligences.
A Different Place
http://www.adifferentplace.org/
Differentiation Activities for Various Grade Levels
This is a great website that has a plethora of differentiation activities for various subjects. Teachers can use the resources on this site to ensure that all of their students are getting a superb learning experience.
PB Works
http://gifted-talented.pbworks.com/w/page/23355888/Activities%20and%20Lessons%20for%20Enrichment%20Learning
Enrichment Activities for Gifted Learners
This is an aggregate site of links to various enrichment activities on different subjects and specific topics. Teachers can use this site to find activities for their gifted students to do on their own or in groups.
Quiz Hub
http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
Quizzes for Early Finishers
Many gifted kids love taking quizzes on topics they know a lot about. This is a great website that has quizzes about many different subjects. Early finishers can explore this site on their own.
The Grey Labyrinth
http://www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzles
Puzzles
This site has great puzzles for students who finish early. They can explore the site on their own and complete the puzzle for some brain challenges.
Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students
http://www.cmu.edu/cmites/giftedstudents.html
Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom Article
This is a short article that lists ideas for gifted enrichment in the regular classroom for teachers who have not had the benefit of taking a class on gifted education. After the list of enrichment ideas, there are discussions of issues with gifted students in the classroom. It’s a great resource for informed teachers to pass along to teachers struggling with gifted students in their classroom.
Energizing Brain Breaks
http://brainbreaks.blogspot.com/
Activities To Enhance Learning Capabilities Between Subjects
I’m a big fan of brain breaks for all students, but especially gifted students. Some gifted students tend to get sucked into a subject and have trouble giving themselves a break. This website has many short ideas that the entire class can do together to give their brains a little rest while challenging them.
SMART Board Revolution
http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/
Teacher Resources for Using the SMARTBoard to Enrich Lessons
This is a superb resource for teachers with SMARTBoards. It provides discussion boards, links to relevant sites, and so many ideas and lesson plans that can turn a boring lesson into a challenging and engaging one.
Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/whiteboards/languagearts.htm?lnkid=TNav:SA:Interactive%20Whiteboard&ESP=SA/ib//acq/interactive_WB_tnav_SA///nav/txtl////
Interactive Whiteboard Activities
This is another site that provides activities to enrich the core subject lesson plans. Gifted students will be engaged and challenged by many of the activities provided here.
The Teacher’s Guide
http://www.theteachersguide.com/InteractiveLitSitesSmartBoard.htm
http://www.theteachersguide.com/InteractiveSitesMathSmartBoard.htm
Interactive Reading Websites
Interactive Math Websites
This is a list of links to websites that have activities teachers can use to enhance their reading lessons by using the SMARTBoard. More students can be reached and gifted students who may have mastered the content being taught are provided with enrichment that engages them. The second site is their math version.
KB Konnected Kids
http://www.kbkonnectedkids.com/
Enrichment Site for Students Who Finish Early
This website is a great tool for classroom teachers who want to provide their gifted kids with activities to do once they master the regular classroom material. There are sections for all subjects, so the students can have materials tailored to their interest. Each section has myriad links to other sites with interactive and challenging activities.
PBS Kids
http://pbskids.org/
PBS’s Website for Kids
This is a site most parents of young children know about. They have resources for all subject areas, connected to kids’ favorite educational TV programs. There are activities for all grade levels. It is a great site for early finishers. Kids can create a book on their own, play challenging math or phonics games, and much more.
Interactive Websites
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm
Aggregate of Interactive Websites for Various Grade Levels and Subjects
This site has links to a plethora of interactive websites across subject and grade. Students who finish early or are gifted in a particular subject area can find lots of resources here.
Brain Pop Jr
http://www.brainpopjr.com/
Core Subject Enrichment Activities
Brain Pop is an amazing resource. There are engaging videos, games, resources for teachers, connections to standards. It’s got everything. Teachers can use these activities in their lessons to make them more interesting and challenging, or students can explore the site on their own.
Know It All
http://knowitall.org/
Enrichment Activities for Early Finishers
This site has fascinating games and activities about specific topics. For example, a currently featured site is all about the Gullah culture in South Carolina. Kids can learn about topics they have never even heard of before or search for their particular interest. Gifted students who finish early can use this resource to explore their interests.
Tramline
http://www.field-trips.org/trips.htm
Online Field Trips
This is an amazing tool for students who really want to explore a specific topic. They provide a variety of online field trips that the students can take on their own. Each field trip provides the students with extra information about their chosen topic, as well as pictures and activities.
Owl & Mouse
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse
Maps, Medieval History, and More
This site has links to so many online, interactive maps. It’s great for kids who have a specific interest in geography. There is also a section on Medieval history that includes some really fun independent activities that gifted kids could do on their own.
Poetry 4 Kids
http://www.poetry4kids.com
Poems and Language-Related Enrichment
This website is great for students who love language and poetry. There are tons of illustrated poems, including funny poems, which might particularly interest the gifted students. Besides just having poems, there are language games, videos, and more.
IXL
http://www.ixl.com/
Interactive Math Practice
This site is divided into grade levels, so it’s easy for teachers of students gifted in math to find challenging math practice activities for gifted students to do on their own while the rest of the class is learning material they have already mastered.
Kids Click
http://www.kidsclick.org/
Kid Friendly Reference Site
This is a great site for gifted students who want to do independent studies. It is a site created by librarians for kids. It will return resources that are appropriate for kids wanting to learn more about a specific topic.
Teach Engineering
http://www.teachengineering.org/
Teacher Resources for Engineering Instruction
This site has many fun activities for kids who are interested in engineering. There are lessons, websites, and games that gifted students interested in engineering would find engaging. It can be used to enhance lessons or to point kids in the direction of appropriate websites for personal exploration.
ZomeTool
http://zometool.com/users/educators
Art and Science “Toy”
This website is where you can buy Zometool, an amazing “toy” that is great for gifted and creative kids interested in engineering, art, building. It is definitely an activity that will challenge the creativity of the gifted students, but that would be appreciated by all of the students in the classroom. The website listed here is the educators’ website. It included ideas for using this “toy” in education.
Green Hills Area Education Agency
http://www.ghaea.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107%3Agifted-education-science-resources&catid=5&Itemid=55
Gifted Education Science and STEM Resources
This is an amazing resource for classroom teachers who have gifted students who love science and STEM. There are links to many many websites that provide enriching activities for gifted students to do on their own or for lesson ideas teachers can use to improve their lessons.
Bright Ideas
https://id18510.securedata.net/brightideascatalog.com/merchantmanager/index.php?cPath=21
Games for the Gifted and Talented
You must purchase these physical games, but for classroom teachers who do not have access to enough computers in their rooms, these games are great options for early finishers.
http://legacy.teachersfirst.com/gifted/strategies.html
Site with Tips for Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom
This website is geared towards regular classroom teachers. It provides explanations of gifted students’ needs and links to ideas for in-class enrichment for them.
Bright Hub Education
http://www.brighthubeducation.com/teaching-gifted-students/89083-suggested-supplies-for-gifted-education-classrooms/?cid=parsely_rec
Suggested Supplies for a Gifted Education Classroom
While this site is geared towards gifted teachers, it is a great resource for regular classroom teachers with gifted students. Many of the supplies listed on this website would work well for a regular classroom as well.
Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/
The “All Things Gifted” Page
This is an amazing resource for teachers, parents, and students. There are articles, discussions, activities, and anything else you could want in relation to gifted education on this site. It’s a great site for anyone who knows a gifted student.
Exquisite Minds
http://www.exquisite-minds.com/
Gifted and Creative Children Resources
Like Hoagies’ site, this is a resource for teachers, parents, and kids. There are lots of curriculum differentiation ideas as well as forums and games. Great for teachers to show to parents of gifted students.
Rhode Island State Advisory Committee on Gifted and Talented Education
http://www.ri.net/gifted_talented/rhode.html
Information and Resources about Gifted Education
While this site is geared towards Rhode Island, it has invaluable resources for parents, teachers, and students. There are activities, descriptions of giftedness, programs, advocacy forums, and more. A great site for teachers to pass on to parents.
Education.com
http://www.education.com/topic/learning-disability-gifted-children/
Twice Exceptional Resources
This is a subsection of education.com that has many articles and resources for gifted students with learning disabilities. Regular classroom teachers can find answers for questions about their twice exceptional students here.
Atlanta Public Schools
http://www.atlanta.k12.ga.us/Page/21024
Atlanta Public School System’s Gifted Education Page
Here teachers can find information about all of the different gifted programs available in Atlanta. If their school does not currently use any of these programs, teachers can suggest them to the gifted teacher. There are also resources for parents, enrichment activities, and a section that kids can explore on their own. There are many uses for this site in connection to gifted students, their parents and teachers.
Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Library/Materials_Search/Lesson_Plans/Lesson_Plans.html
Exceptional Lesson Plans
This site boasts the top 5% lesson plans in terms of quality. For busy teachers who want to add enriching activities to their lessons, they can find many ideas in these lesson plans.
Cloud Net
http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edgifted.html
Lesson Plans for Teaching Gifted and Talented Students
This site has links to a ton of lesson plans geared towards the gifted student. Teachers can get ideas from these lesson plans and incorporate them into the regular classroom.
Discovery Education
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/brainboosters/
Brain Boosters
These are great, quick logic problems to challenge the critical thinking skills of the gifted students in the classroom. Other students in the classroom could also benefit from a reflection on how the gifted students came to those conclusions.
Gifted Children.Web
http://giftedchildren.webs.com/
Fun and Challenging Activities for Gifted Children
This site has some great ideas for stimulating activities for gifted kids. These can be done at home or in the classroom independently. There is also a game of the week, which teachers can easily re-create.
Multiple Intelligence Activities
http://www.epd86.org/tech/aurora/bierdeman/activities.html
The Great Eight
Here are links to activities that target Gardner’s multiple intelligences. Teachers can use this site to find enrichment activities for gifted students who display an extreme talent in one of the eight intelligences.
A Different Place
http://www.adifferentplace.org/
Differentiation Activities for Various Grade Levels
This is a great website that has a plethora of differentiation activities for various subjects. Teachers can use the resources on this site to ensure that all of their students are getting a superb learning experience.
PB Works
http://gifted-talented.pbworks.com/w/page/23355888/Activities%20and%20Lessons%20for%20Enrichment%20Learning
Enrichment Activities for Gifted Learners
This is an aggregate site of links to various enrichment activities on different subjects and specific topics. Teachers can use this site to find activities for their gifted students to do on their own or in groups.
Quiz Hub
http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
Quizzes for Early Finishers
Many gifted kids love taking quizzes on topics they know a lot about. This is a great website that has quizzes about many different subjects. Early finishers can explore this site on their own.
The Grey Labyrinth
http://www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzles
Puzzles
This site has great puzzles for students who finish early. They can explore the site on their own and complete the puzzle for some brain challenges.
Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students
http://www.cmu.edu/cmites/giftedstudents.html
Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom Article
This is a short article that lists ideas for gifted enrichment in the regular classroom for teachers who have not had the benefit of taking a class on gifted education. After the list of enrichment ideas, there are discussions of issues with gifted students in the classroom. It’s a great resource for informed teachers to pass along to teachers struggling with gifted students in their classroom.
Energizing Brain Breaks
http://brainbreaks.blogspot.com/
Activities To Enhance Learning Capabilities Between Subjects
I’m a big fan of brain breaks for all students, but especially gifted students. Some gifted students tend to get sucked into a subject and have trouble giving themselves a break. This website has many short ideas that the entire class can do together to give their brains a little rest while challenging them.
SMART Board Revolution
http://smartboardrevolution.ning.com/
Teacher Resources for Using the SMARTBoard to Enrich Lessons
This is a superb resource for teachers with SMARTBoards. It provides discussion boards, links to relevant sites, and so many ideas and lesson plans that can turn a boring lesson into a challenging and engaging one.
Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/whiteboards/languagearts.htm?lnkid=TNav:SA:Interactive%20Whiteboard&ESP=SA/ib//acq/interactive_WB_tnav_SA///nav/txtl////
Interactive Whiteboard Activities
This is another site that provides activities to enrich the core subject lesson plans. Gifted students will be engaged and challenged by many of the activities provided here.
The Teacher’s Guide
http://www.theteachersguide.com/InteractiveLitSitesSmartBoard.htm
http://www.theteachersguide.com/InteractiveSitesMathSmartBoard.htm
Interactive Reading Websites
Interactive Math Websites
This is a list of links to websites that have activities teachers can use to enhance their reading lessons by using the SMARTBoard. More students can be reached and gifted students who may have mastered the content being taught are provided with enrichment that engages them. The second site is their math version.
KB Konnected Kids
http://www.kbkonnectedkids.com/
Enrichment Site for Students Who Finish Early
This website is a great tool for classroom teachers who want to provide their gifted kids with activities to do once they master the regular classroom material. There are sections for all subjects, so the students can have materials tailored to their interest. Each section has myriad links to other sites with interactive and challenging activities.
PBS Kids
http://pbskids.org/
PBS’s Website for Kids
This is a site most parents of young children know about. They have resources for all subject areas, connected to kids’ favorite educational TV programs. There are activities for all grade levels. It is a great site for early finishers. Kids can create a book on their own, play challenging math or phonics games, and much more.
Interactive Websites
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm
Aggregate of Interactive Websites for Various Grade Levels and Subjects
This site has links to a plethora of interactive websites across subject and grade. Students who finish early or are gifted in a particular subject area can find lots of resources here.
Brain Pop Jr
http://www.brainpopjr.com/
Core Subject Enrichment Activities
Brain Pop is an amazing resource. There are engaging videos, games, resources for teachers, connections to standards. It’s got everything. Teachers can use these activities in their lessons to make them more interesting and challenging, or students can explore the site on their own.
Know It All
http://knowitall.org/
Enrichment Activities for Early Finishers
This site has fascinating games and activities about specific topics. For example, a currently featured site is all about the Gullah culture in South Carolina. Kids can learn about topics they have never even heard of before or search for their particular interest. Gifted students who finish early can use this resource to explore their interests.
Tramline
http://www.field-trips.org/trips.htm
Online Field Trips
This is an amazing tool for students who really want to explore a specific topic. They provide a variety of online field trips that the students can take on their own. Each field trip provides the students with extra information about their chosen topic, as well as pictures and activities.
Owl & Mouse
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse
Maps, Medieval History, and More
This site has links to so many online, interactive maps. It’s great for kids who have a specific interest in geography. There is also a section on Medieval history that includes some really fun independent activities that gifted kids could do on their own.
Poetry 4 Kids
http://www.poetry4kids.com
Poems and Language-Related Enrichment
This website is great for students who love language and poetry. There are tons of illustrated poems, including funny poems, which might particularly interest the gifted students. Besides just having poems, there are language games, videos, and more.
IXL
http://www.ixl.com/
Interactive Math Practice
This site is divided into grade levels, so it’s easy for teachers of students gifted in math to find challenging math practice activities for gifted students to do on their own while the rest of the class is learning material they have already mastered.
Kids Click
http://www.kidsclick.org/
Kid Friendly Reference Site
This is a great site for gifted students who want to do independent studies. It is a site created by librarians for kids. It will return resources that are appropriate for kids wanting to learn more about a specific topic.
Teach Engineering
http://www.teachengineering.org/
Teacher Resources for Engineering Instruction
This site has many fun activities for kids who are interested in engineering. There are lessons, websites, and games that gifted students interested in engineering would find engaging. It can be used to enhance lessons or to point kids in the direction of appropriate websites for personal exploration.
ZomeTool
http://zometool.com/users/educators
Art and Science “Toy”
This website is where you can buy Zometool, an amazing “toy” that is great for gifted and creative kids interested in engineering, art, building. It is definitely an activity that will challenge the creativity of the gifted students, but that would be appreciated by all of the students in the classroom. The website listed here is the educators’ website. It included ideas for using this “toy” in education.
Green Hills Area Education Agency
http://www.ghaea.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=107%3Agifted-education-science-resources&catid=5&Itemid=55
Gifted Education Science and STEM Resources
This is an amazing resource for classroom teachers who have gifted students who love science and STEM. There are links to many many websites that provide enriching activities for gifted students to do on their own or for lesson ideas teachers can use to improve their lessons.
Bright Ideas
https://id18510.securedata.net/brightideascatalog.com/merchantmanager/index.php?cPath=21
Games for the Gifted and Talented
You must purchase these physical games, but for classroom teachers who do not have access to enough computers in their rooms, these games are great options for early finishers.