Trina Hira
Coordinator of
Gifted and Talented
Program Services

651-604-3749

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Websites forTeachers

Future Problem Solving Program International focuses on current event issues. The students work on real life issues throughout the year. There are 2 Practice Problems, Regional Problem, State Problem and International Problem. Check the FPSI Web site for more information: http://www.fpspi.org/

"FPS: Readings, Research and Resources"

Dare To Differentiate

Math

American Mathematics Contests (grades 7-12) http://www.unl.edu/amc

Continental Math League (grades 2-12) http://www.continentalmathematicsleague.com/

Math Counts (grades 6-8) http://www.mathcounts.org/ and http://www.mathcountsmn.org/

Minnesota State High School Mathematics League http://mnmathleague.org/

Minnesota Math Masters http://www.mathmastersmn.org/

American Mensa http://www.us.mensa.org/

Fermi Off-the-Wall Math League http://www.district287.org/index.php.....

Math Olympiad http://www.moems.org/

Science

Minnesota Academy of Science's State Science Fair http://www.fair.mnmas.org/sfHome.asp

Technology Kids of the Year http://www.edugeeks.com/

International Science and Engineering Fair Competition http://www.stc.org/comp/studentCompetitions01.asp

First Lego League http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/fll

FIRST Robotics Competition http://www.usfirst.org/

Science Olympiad http://www.scioly.org/

Siemens Westinghouse Compeitions in Math, Science and Technology http://www.siemens-foundation.org/competition/process.htm

Minnesota Science Olympiad http://minnesotaso.org/

Regional Science Quiz Bowl http://www.bowl.mnmas.org/

Tronix Team http://www.tronixteam.org/

Young Inventor's Fair http://www.successbeyond.org/YIF.htm

Future City Competition http://www.futurecity.org/minnesota

High Tech Kids http://www.hightechkids.org/

Social Studies

Minnesota at National History Day http://www.mnhs.org/school/historyday/index.htm

Language Arts

A World Connected Essay Contest http://www.aworldconnected.org/

Amazing Kids Writing and Art Contests http://mag.amazing-kids.org/category/ak-contests/

Kids are Authors http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/kaa/

Minnesota Young Author's Conference http://www.successbeyond.org/YAC.htm

Instructional Strategies

Helpful source of graphic organizers http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/graphic_organizers.php

Susan Winebrenner, author of Teaching Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom http://susanwinebrenner.com/

Great wealth of resources for teaching GT and all students with links to webquests, virtual field trips, online projects, and much more - from TechLearning. http://www.techlearning.com/shared/printableArticle.php?articleID=196605252

Professional/Educational Organizations

Minnesota Educators of the Gifted and Talented, Inc. (MEGT) http://www.megt.org/

Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) http://www.cec.sped.org/

Minnesota Department of Education Gifted and Talented Department http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/StuSuc/GiftEd/index.html

Research Sites

Hoagie's Gifted Page http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/

Kidsource.com offers an extensive list of links to articles and digests that provide ideas, guidance and activities for both parents and educators of gifted students. http://www.kidsource.com/

Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development http://www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank/

Center for Gifted Education http://cfge.wm.edu/

Center for Talent Development http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/

GERI Gifted Education Resource Institute http://www.geri.education.purdue.edu/

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) http://cty.jhu.edu/

National Research Center on Gifted and Talented http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt.html

Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/

Gifted Education Press

According to the publisher: "We're all on a mission to advance the well-being of gifted education, and we all share a vision of excellence in this field. At this time in our nation's history, it is important to maintain our leadership in education, science and the humanities. Therefore, I am asking the readers of Gifted Education Press Quarterly for your support to insure that we can continue publishing this Quarterly. Please consider sending a few dollars to help defray the costs of producing this important periodical in the gifted education field. We have been publishing GEPQ for 23 years with the goal of including all viewpoints on educating the gifted. Their address is: Gifted Education Press; 10201 Yuma Court; P.O. Box 1586; Manassas, VA 20109."

A Guide to finding some of the information on the web site:

1. Topic Listing, Issue numbers and contents, and Key Words List - http://www.giftededpress.com/gepqnw.htm
2. Look for the link to most CURRENT & PREVIOUS ISSUES.
3. If after reading sample Issues, you would like to receive a Complimentary Online Subscription to Gifted Education Press Quarterly (GEPQ), contact the publisher at Gifted@GiftedEdPress.Com with your request. As an Online Subscriber, you will automatically receive New Online Issues when they come out, and you will be able to read all previous Online Issues of Gifted Education Press Quarterly back to 1987.
4. There are links to: The Center for Gifted in Glenview, Illinois, Gifted Education Press Discussion Board for Teachers, Parents and Program Administrators, LINKS for Articles from Gifted Education Press Quarterly by Donna Y. Ford & Colleagues.
5. STEM related materials

See the directions below to access the Members-Only Online Version on the Gifted Education Press Web Site. GEPQ Online contains all previous issues (for reference purposes) back to the April 1987 issue.

Read the Spring 2011 issue of the Illinois Journal for Gifted Children - Gifted Child Advocacy.

If you know a colleague or friend who would like a complimentary copy of an Online Issue, tell them to send their request to: gifted@giftededpress.com. In addition, please see the information on our Web Site about our books on creative thinking, humanities, science and mathematics.

Contact me if you have any ideas for new articles or books that GEP can publish. Thank you. Maurice Fisher, Ph.D., Publisher

To read and print previous issues of Gifted Education Press Quarterly, please do the following:

1. Go to our Web Site at http://www.GiftedEdPress.com
2. The Home Page (scroll to the bottom of the page) will show our name and address, etc., a tree, and several choice buttons.
3. Go to the next to last cell in the first column -- "Click Here to Enter Your Special Access Codes" -- and Click it.
4. Type in the following User Name in small letters -- gepq
5. Type in the following Password in small letters -- gep621
   Click OK

Keep your User Name and Password for future access to GEPQ Online. All future issues will be available on this Web Page at the beginning of September, December, March, June.

Happy Reading!