Gifted and Talented Internet Web Sites For You:

If you know of a great GT website- please share it with us and we will post it here too.  Thanks in advance.

 

 

National Associations

 

National Association of Gifted Children http://www.nagc.org/

National Society for the Gifted and Talented http://www.nsgt.org/

Free Department of Education Publications: www.ed.gov/about/ordering.jsp

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

Website connecting to all State GT Associations:  www.gifted.uconn.edu/parents/straregt.htm#RAO

Davidson Institute http://www.ditd.org/

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

Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program http://www.ed.gov/programs/javits/index.html

The Association for the Gifted (TAG) http://www.cectag.org/

 

 

STATE ASSOCIATIONS AND HIGHER ED LINKS

 

Massachusetts Association of Gifted Education (MAGE) http://www.massgifted.org/

New England Conference on Gifted and Talented http://www.necgt.org/  

Connecticut Association for the Gifted http://www.ctgifted.org/

New Hampshire Association for Gifted Education http://www.nhage.org/

Rhode Island Advocate for Gifted Education http://www.riage.org/

Vermont Council for Gifted Education http://www.vcge.org/

Brown Center on Education Policy, the Brookings Institution www.brookings.edu/browncenter

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

Advocacy for Gifted and Talented Education in New York State, Inc. http://www.agateny.org/

Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary http://cfge.wm.edu/

Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Iowa http://www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank

Oklahoma Department of Ed Website for Gifted and Talented Education http://sde.state.ok.us/Curriculum/GiftTalent/teachers.html

Gifted Development Center: A Service of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development http://gifteddevelopment.com/index.htm

Gifted Education Resource Institute at Purdue University  http://www.geri.soe.purdue.edu/

The College Board http://www.collegeboard.com/

 

 

CURRICULUM LINKS

Awesome Library http://awesomelibrary.org/

Cyberguides: Literature Teacher Guides and Student Activities http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

Education Place: K-8 Resource Page for students, teachers, parents http://edplace.com/index.jsp

Education World: The Educator’s Best Friend http://www.edcationworld.com/

Renzulli School-Wide Enrichment Model http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/sem/

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

Project M3: Mentoring Mathematical Minds: http://www.gifteduconn.edu/projectm3

Kathy Shrock’s Guide for Educators: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/shrockguide/

Free Video Webcasting at www.ustream.tv

Free Web Video Conferencing at www.mebream.com

Free Microsoft Window Movie Maker 2 Software http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx

Free Microsoft Reader eBook Software http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/pc.asp

Free Microsoft Reader eBook Creation Software for Word http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/rmr.asp

Free ReaderWorks eBook Creator Software http://www.overdrive.com/readerworks/software/standard.asp

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center (free eBooks) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

Project Gutenberg (free eBooks) http://www.gutenberg.org/

The Internet Public Library (free eBooks) http://www.ipl.org/

Music MasterWords Composing Software from Aspire Software http://www.musicmasterworks.com/

Palm Information from the University of Michigan Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education (HICE) http://www.palm.hice-dev.org/index.htm

Talent Identification Program:  Duke University http://www.tip.duke.edu/

Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) http://www.ciera.org/

Center for English Learning and Achievement http://www.cela.albany.edu/

Institute of Education Sciences www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/index.html

Future Problem Solving http://www.fpsp.org/

CAG Communicator www.cagifted.org/pages/publications/communicator.html

Institute for Educational Advancement (IEA) http://www.educationaladvancement.org/

Teachers.net lesson plans http://www.teachers.net/lessons/

Kid Source Online http://kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/ed.gifted.html

Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page http://hoagiesgifted.org/

Eric Digest articles: http://eric.hoagiesgifted.org/

Web Quest Page http://webquest.org/index.php

 

 

ACADEMIC COMPETITIONS

The Word Masters Challenge www.wordmasterschallenge.com

The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest www.rube-goldberg.com

The NASA Student Involvement Program www.nsip.net

          My Planet Earth (Grades K-4)

          Science &Technology Journalism (Grades K-12)

          Aerospace Technology Engineering Challenge (5-8)

          Design a Mission to Mars and Beyond (5-12)

          Watching Earth Change (5-12)

          Space Flight Opportunities (9-12)

The Kids Philosophy Slam National Championship www.philosophylslam.org

Arts Recognition and Talent Search www.nfaa.org

National Science Bowl www.scied.science.doe.gov/nsb

National Federation of Press Women High School Communications Contest (9-12) www.nfpw.org/youth/youth_index.htm

U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) www.acs.org

Quill and Scroll International Writing and Photo Contest www.uiowa.edu/~quill-sc

The Lucent Global Science Scholars Competition www.iie.org/programs/lucent

Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament www.mit.edu/hmmt

National French Contest www.frenchteachers.org/concours

Davidson Fellows Award http://www.ditd.org/

Odyssey of the Mind http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/

 

 

 

SUMMER PROGRAMS

Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG) http://www.giftedstudy.com/

Summer Honors Program and Early Outreach www.indstate.edu/experience

Springfield Museums Summer Programs http://www.springfieldmuseums.org/news/views/82-summer_programs

Summer Programs-The Reminder http://www.thereminder.com/features/todaysfamily/celebrates/summeratt/

Springfield Summer Reading Program http://www.springfieldintruder.com/?p=887

East Longmeadow MA Day Camp & Summer Days Camp http://summer-daycamps.com/United_States/Massachusetts/East_Longmeadow/index.html

Becket-Chimney Corners Explorer Camp http://www.bccymca.org/daycamp/index.htm

Summer at America’s Premier School for the Arts: http://www.walnuthillarts.org/summer

Tabor Academy Summer Program, Residential, Marion, MA http://www.taboracademy.org/summer/index/asp

Brewster Day Camp on Cape Cod http://www.brewsterdaycamp.com/ab_welcome.shtml

College Gate and College Academy-Stoughton, MA http://www.collegegate.com/

Camp Hayward-Sandwich, MA http://www.ssymca.org/camp/RC_Hayward.shtml

Camp Farley Outdoor Education Center-Mashpee, MA http://www.campfarley.com/

4-H Camp-Middlesex http://www.campmiddlesex.com/index.html

Nashoba Day Camp-Littleton, MA www.campnashobaday.com/inside/about/CampNashoba.htm

Camp Emerson-Hinsdale, MA http://www.campemerson.com/

Summer Nature Camp-Mystic, CT http://www.dpnc.org/summer_camp.html

Chase Collegiate School-Waterbury, CT http://www.chasecollegiate.org/page.cfm?p=244

The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp-Ashford, CT http://www.holeinthewallgang.org/default.asp

 

 

 

                                                                                                          Scholarship Opportunities

 

Davidson Institute Seeks Extraordinary Achievers to Receive $50,000, $25,000 And $10,000 Davidson Fellow Scholarships

 

If you are a student under 18 as of Oct. 1, 2010 and working on a graduate-level project in any field of study, you may want to consider applying for the 2010 Davidson Fellows scholarship. The Davidson Institute for Talent Development is offering high-achieving young people across the country the opportunity to be named as 2010 Davidson Fellows, an honor accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a significant piece of work in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Music, Literature, Philosophy or Outside the Box.

 

Applicants must submit an original piece of work recognized by experts in the field as significant and it must have the potential to make a positive contribution to society. The scholarship must be used at any accredited institute of learning.

 

The deadline to apply is March 3, 2010. To find out more, please visit www.DavidsonGifted.org/Fellows