The purpose of this activity is to give you a sampling of some activities using higher level thinking skills. These websites have been carefully chosen. Good luck and have fun learning about some of the wonderful resources out there.

The following links come from all over the Internet and represent a variety of activities. You may answer the questions alone or by working in a group. You may complete all or only some of the activities depending on your goals.

Sites to Explore

Empowering Student Learning with Web Publishing Questions:

1. Instead of having your students post an art gallery of pictures they drew about a thematic unit what does this website suggest? (Under 'Developing their project...')
2. What is the first question in the Abraham Lincoln Quiz?
3. How does a student learn to evaluate the content they are reading?

1. Under the May 19, 2007 Newsletter, what book is being featured for high ability Middle School students?
2. Under Tech Check what is the 'Encyclopdedia of Life' about?
3. What are the kids doing in the article 'Handhelds Help Turn Kids Into Marine Biologists'?

1. What types of learning can be found in a WebQuest? (Introducation)
2. What are three key points in the Powerpoint: WebQuests in our Future (Process)
3. What area and grade level does 'The Ocean is in Trouble' cover? (Process- Building Blocks of a WebQuest)

1. Who developed the WebQuest model?
2. Are you able to develop your own webquest?
3. What two ways can you seach for WebQuests on the website? (Find WebQuests tab)

1. What is the first WebQuest under: Grade Level Matrix, English/LA, grades 3-5?
2. What is the 'task' in the Johnny Tremain WebQuest? (Free Text Search)
3. Name three useful links under 'Useful Resources.'

1. What type of pamphlet will the student prepare?
2. What is the highest score a student can earn?
3. Under what tab do you find the jobs and links?

1. Name two differences between gifted and a child with ADHD.
2. What factors might keep a gifted child from staying on task? (Consider the Situation--paragraph 2)
3. How can a parent or teacher determine if a child is ADHD or gifted? (What Parents and Teachers Can Do--paragraph 1)

1. What traits might arise from being gifted? (paragraph 1)
2. What 'ism' can be associated with giftedness? (Dissonance)
3. What are some of the factors contributing to impatience? (Impatience)

1. What is meant by 'matched to his weaknessess, rather than to his strengths'? (paragraph 2)
2. True or False: A gifted student may read fluently in 4th grade but find difficulty in holding a pencil (Understanding Uneven Development)

1. True or False: All gifted children fit in socially. (Social Skills)
2. What three things does an Optimist know? (Virtue/Vice of Perfectionism)
3. What percent experience adversity as a child? (The burden of becoming a change maker)

1. What three things at school can cause underachievement?
2. What three things at home can cause underachievement?
3. What three things can parents do to help their children?

1. What percent of high school drop-outs score in the superior range?
2. What might be the downfall from 'good peer relationships'? (The Pressure to be Popular)
3. What is meant by 'gifted children who rarely have challenge in the early years equate smart with easy'? (last paragraph)

1. Who are the gifted underachievers? (pg. 13)
2. What four factors contribute to underachievement? (pg. 17)

1. What might be some motivators under Unity Values? (pg. 2)
2. Name two intrinsic motivation tips. (pg. 2)
3. What should you say instead of 'Good Work'? (Motivation Tips to Encourage Mastery Attribution, pg. 4)

1. True of False: the child does not tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty (Creative Thinking)
2. True or False: the child likes to study some subjects more than others (Specific Academic Aptitude)
3. Ture or False: the child is persistent (General Intellectual Ability)

1. Does the bright child know the answers or ask the questions?
2. Does the gifted child enjoy his/her peers or prefer adults?
3. Does the gifted child need 6 to 8 times of repetition for mastery or 1 to 2?

1. What is the Renzulli Definition of gifted?
2. How many profoundly gifted are found in 1 million people?

1. Is there a generally accepted definition of giftedness?
2. How many gifted children are there?
3. What are the four ranges of services?

1. Is creativity part of giftedness?
2. True or False; Giftedness is limited to intellectual ability.
3. True or False: Giftedness spans all cultures of people.

1. What do the students need to read before beginning the activity?
2. What three questions need to be answered in the creation of a constitution?
3. What were the slave states in 1850? (Maps: Free States, Slaves States, and Territories)

1. What skills do debates foster?
2. What are the seven steps to persuasive speaking?
3. What kind of lessons could be written highlighting synthesis?

1. What is the grade level?
2. Is the quiz given orally or on paper?
3. Is there only one right answer to the question?

1. What abilities does creativity involve? (paragraph 2)
2. Name five things teachers can do to foster creativity.
3. How are questions one and two different? (On Columbus)

1. What is the name of the model?
2. What are the three rings?
3. Why is creativity one of the rings?

1. What percent retain information through reading?
2. What percent retain information through simulations?
3. What four educational concepts do simulations cover?

Conclusion

While exploring this sampler on The High Ability Kid, we hope you had fun, learned, and most importantly connected with some part of this topic.