Web Sites
Gifted and Talented Internet Web Sites For You:
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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.comThe 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