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