R&L Education
Pages: 182
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-57886-317-4 • Paperback • December 2005 • $59.00 • (£45.00)
Rosemary Callard-Szulgit is an adjunct professor at SUNY College at Brockport and directs a staff development consulting business, Partners for Excellence in Rochester, New York.
Greg Karl Szulgit currently designs and teaches courses full-time at Hiram College in Ohio. He was nominated Outstanding Faculty of the Year for 2002-03 by the student senate. He has designed science courses and curricula for students of all levels, teaching classes to elementary, high school, and college audiences, as well as to senior citizens.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Recalled for Revision
Part 4 Math Activities
Chapter 5 Creative Conversions (and the "Smoot")
Chapter 6 Using Microsoft Excel as a Teaching Tool
Chapter 7 Figure This
Chapter 8 Lunch Bunch
Chapter 9 The Map Problem
Chapter 10 Math Question of the Day
Chapter 11 Mind-benders
Chapter 12 Place-Value Games
Chapter 13 Stock Market Game
Chapter 14 Snowflakes
Chapter 15 STEM
Part 16 Science Activities
Chapter 17 Chemistry Olympiad
Chapter 18 Challenger Center for Space Science Education
Chapter 19 The Cutting Edge
Chapter 20 Hurricane Hunters
Chapter 21 The Intel Science Talent Search
Chapter 22 JASON Expedition
Chapter 23 Life Might be Out There...
Chapter 24 Marble Machines
Chapter 25 Nature's Artful Architecture
Chapter 26 Pinhole Cameras
Chapter 27 Science Olympiad
Chapter 28 Science Toy Maker
Chapter 29 Space Day—101 Ways to Celebrate
Chapter 30 Tiny Worlds
Chapter 31 Tree of Life
Part 32 Technology/Business Opportunities
Chapter 33 Girls Go Tech
Chapter 34 The PPG Industries Foundation
Part 35 Still More Activities
Chapter 36 Academic Decathlon and Northrup Corporation
Chapter 37 Can't You Sit Still?
Chapter 38 Classroom Earth and Environmental Experimental Education
Chapter 39 Explorer Schools and NASA
Chapter 40 Internet Chess Club
Chapter 41 Inversions
Chapter 42 MIT Inventeams
Chapter 43 A Walk in the Woods
Part 44 Academic Environs
Chapter 45 Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP)
Chapter 46 MEADOW
Chapter 47 Moss Meadow School
Chapter 48 The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Part 49 Reflections on Education
Chapter 50 Did You Know You're my Hero?
Chapter 51 I Forgive You
Chapter 52 Gifted Children Speak to Us
Chapter 53 A Letter to Parents
Chapter 54 Three Popular Questions and Commonsense Answers
Part 55 Appendices
Chapter 56 Awards
Chapter 57 Centers for Gifted Education and Talent Searches
Chapter 58 Math and Science Books
Chapter 59 Organizations
Chapter 60 Magazines
Chapter 61 Special Programs
Chapter 62 State Organizations for the Gifted
Chapter 63 State Department of Education Gifted Education Contacts
Chapter 64 Websites for Parents, Teachers, and Students
Chapter 65 Science and Math Competitions
This handy-dandy volume offers teachers, parents, and school-age children lots of ideas for pursuing their interests in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Recommended.
— Choice Reviews
For K-12 math and science teachers, Callard-Szulgit and Szulgit provide 37 math, science, and technology/business activities and ideas for gifted students, with some of the exercises written directly for them. Examples include exercises with maps, the stock market, mindbenders, chemistry, nature, inventions, and chess.
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