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Started this discussion. Last reply by Judy Twetten Sep 26.

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Judy Twetten replied to Diane Brown's discussion 'Help with activities!'

I'm glad I read the replies to your post. I got some great new information for my job (K-6 gifted in 4 schools). I heartily agree with the Scratch recommendations. There are also more free downloads I've found and explored on my webpage under Parent…

September 26

Susan Goodkin replied to Diane Brown's discussion 'Help with activities!'

Hi, On the assessing mastery question, are there tests at the end of the chapters in the textbook you're using? Taking them could give you a good idea of how much of the material he's mastered. I also recommend a book by Susan Assouline called, "D…

September 25

Diane Brown replied to Diane Brown's discussion 'Help with activities!'

Thanks everyone for some great ideas and links. Onr of our main problems with this student is that he will not finish any work so we really have no evidence that he has mastered the basic concepts being taught. He says he already knows how to do the…

August 30

Parent replied to Diane Brown's discussion 'Help with activities!'

He might enjoy reading, playing and writing "Interactive Fiction." Google for some links. He can download an Interactive Fiction program that will allow him to write his own "adventures" which would be fun for the other kids to play. These are not j…

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Nancy Bosch replied to Diane Brown's discussion 'Help with activities!'

Diane, I have a website that might help. It's in the midst of an overhaul so things are jumbled together (like a garage sale) but he might find some activities of interest. The key is to make sure he is given different work not MORE work so he shoul…

August 24

Diane Brown replied to Diane Brown's discussion 'Help with activities!'

Thanks, Kevin, will check them out

August 22

Kevin_K replied to Diane Brown's discussion 'Help with activities!'

Scratch programming from scratch.mit.edu could be good, if scratch can be downloaded to the netbook. Maybe also http://www.aimsedu.org/Puzzle/ Check out more pointers at http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus/abe/math_education.html

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Help with activities!

In our Grade 4/5/6 of 23 students of extremely variable abilities, we have a gifted student. He is 10 and we are looking for some activites we can set him to, preferably on computer as all students have netbooks, when he needs extending. Looking at…

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