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    Engine-Uity
    Engine-Uity has been offering gifted teaching materials (K-12) since 1980. The materials are keyed to Bloom's Taxonomy with emphases on research and literature. Some materials are K-3 specific; others are geared for 4-8; others for 7-12. Beginning research includes short-term non-fiction. More in depth materials (e.g. Learning Centers and RATS Packs) are available for more sophisticated learners. Reading Centers for popular trade books number in the hundreds.

  • Printed Materials: Books

    Building Thinking Skills Book 1: Critical Thinking Skills for Reading, Writing, Math, and Science
    This workbook contains activities in verbal and figural similarities, and differences, sequences, classifications, and analogies. Skills addressed include reading comprehension; describing shapes, things, and words; following directions; antonyms and synonyms; several types of analogy; deductive reasoning; parts of a whole; mapping and directionality; logical connectives; spelling and vocabulary; overlapping classes; pattern folding; tracking, rotation, and reflection; mental manipulation of two-dimensional objects.
    Classical Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in Ancient Greece and Rome
    This book by Laurie Carlson contains simple information about aspects of Ancient Greek and Roman life, with numerous hands-on projects for costumes, shoes, food, Greek/Roman crafts, art projects, Greek letters, clay tablets, Greek/Roman math and science projects.
    Create a Growth Mindset School: An Administrator's Guide to Leading a Growth Mindset Community
    Principals and district administrators will learn ways to develop, sustain, monitor, and lead schools and districts striving for growth mindset learning environments. This book includes guidance in the areas of growth mindset hiring, feedback, systemic professional learning, and ways to evaluate present processes and protocols through a growth mindset lens. A mindset reflection tool allows education leaders to consider their own mindset thinking. Guidance and suggestions for embedding growth mindset learning through curriculum, instruction, and grading are also included in this valuable resource.
    Descriptive Mysteries: Critical Thinking Activities to Improve Writing Skills
    This is a workbook to improve writing and communication skills. Builds skills in descriptive vocabulary, directionality, compare and contrast, classification, organization, similarities and differences.
    Differentiating Instruction in Algebra 1
    This book provides ready-to-use resources for Algebra 1 students. It is divided into four units: introduction to functions and relationships; systems of linear equations; exponent rules and exponential functions; and quadratic functions.
    Differentiating Instruction with Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: Math
    This book provides numerous types of leveled menus that lower and on-level elementary-aged students can use to demonstrate learning through a method of their choice. Menus with similar formats but geared towards varying ability levels allow teachers to differentiate easily.
    Differentiating Instruction With Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: Science
    This book provides numerous types of leveled menus that lower and on-level elementary-aged students can use to demonstrate learning through a method of their choice. Menus with similar formats but geared towards varying ability levels allow teachers to differentiate easily.
    Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence
    Each chapter of Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills contains activities suitable for a different age groups. This book may be read in its entirety (which includes the introduction and references) or in discrete sections geared to specific age groups.
    Everyday Words from Classic Origins: A Language Activity Workbook
    This workbook is great for homeschoolers. It helps students master the Latin and Greek roots by providing sequenced activities, practice sets and reviews. A separate response key is also provided. It has over 275 word bases, including the variations. For example, FAC (FIC), FACT (FECT) (FY) all mean "to do, to make." Each lesson has five sections: "Touching Base", "Branching Out", "Words in Progress", "Words in Action" and "Word of Interest". After every 3 lessons, there are review activities and practice sets. There is also a list of Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes in the back of the workbook.
    Gift of Logic Series
    A 12-Workbook Series in Critical Thinking and Logical Reasoning in Verbal, Analytical and Pictorial areas. Gift of Logic focuses on solving problems using critial reading, critical thinking, logic, inferencing, argumentation, positioning, grouping, sequencing, graphing, correlation, pattern matching, paper folding, figure formation and a variety of other topics.
    Handle Associates Writing Skills Workbook
    Designed by an educator who has taught grammar and writing from middle school through the first year of college, this workbook emphasizes practice. It contains six separate topics: parts of speech, sentence structure, word usage, case, agreement, and style. Each page presents a brief lesson followed by related exercises. It has been widely field-tested as practical and effective.
    Hands-on Math: Ready-to-use games and activities for grades 4-8
    Here's a super treasury of 279 exciting math games and activities that help students learn by engaging both their minds and their bodies. Dispensing with tired "rote" learning and memorization, Hands-On Math! uses fun-filled exercises that encourage your students to think and reason mathematically.
    Imagine That! (Road to Writing)
    This book is a unique creative writing program that gives even the youngest writers a chance to express themselves. Featuring five distinct levels, or Miles, this program accompanies children from their first attempts at writing to comfortably writing on their own.
    Key to Algebra Series
    This is a series of workbooks covering topics from integers through graphing, square roots and quadratic equations. Each topic is introduced and explained briefly, then followed by exercises to practice the new skill.
    Key to Fractions
    These self-paced, self-guided workbooks by S. Rasmussen are for grades 4-12 and motivate students to succeed. Do you have students who have never mastered fraction concepts or who need a good review? Key to Fractions covers all topics from basic concepts to mixed numbers and is written with secondary students in mind. Minimal reading is required, so students can easily work independently or in small groups. There are four book levels available.
    Order in the Court - A Mock Trial Simulation
    Order in the Court: A Mock Trial Simulation gives students the opportunity to conduct a trial based on a classic fairytale in order to develop their courtroom skills. After developing the necessary vocabulary, students participate in the trial of Ms. Petunia Pig v. Mr. B. B. Wolf. Students not only learn the concepts, but they also learn valuable teamwork and time management skills. Designed for students grades 6-8, the unit culminates in a full mock-trial enactment.
    Passport to Learn: Projects to Challenge High-Potential Learners
    Designed for gifted students in grades 4-8 as an around-the-world adventure, the activities in this book by Jacqueline Melin emphasize creativity, problem solving, inquiry, and critical thinking in the fields of math, language arts, leadership skills, social studies, and science. Projects include writing a fairy tale using jargon and cliches, studying and composing wartime songs, designing a Martian space colony, and inventing secret codes using binary, octal, and hexadecimal systems. Bonus miles are logged as each project is completed, encouraging self-directed students to focus and develop their independent study skills.
    Pocket Flyers Paper Airplane Book
    This book is about paper airplanes with five airplane plans, directions and many pre-printed pages to make the planes. The directions are similar to Origami. Some planes do need scissors. The authors also wrote the Kid's Paper Airplane Book, and The World Record Paper Airplane Book.
    Prufrock Press: IIM Research series
    Aligned with the CCSS and the TEKS College and Career Readiness Standards,this series of books offers comprehensive plans for integrating a schoolwide research program into existing curriculum. The seven-step Independent Investigation Method (IIM) guides students through group and independent research projects, empowering them with the skills to conduct research in any discipline and to pursue projects in subjects of most interest to them.
    Psychology for Kids Vol. 1: 40 Fun Tests That Help You Learn About Yourself
    Are you an extrovert or an introvert? An optimist or a pessimist? Can you predict the future? Are you creative? Left-brained or right-brained? What body language do you speak? Do you have ESP? Based on sound psychological concepts, these 40 fascinating tests help kids explore their interests and abilities, find out why they act the way they do, and discover what makes them unique.
    Psychology for Kids Vol. 2: 40 Fun Experiments That Help You Learn About Others
    A follow-up to Psychology for Kids (1990), this book explores why others behave as they do. People, paper and pencils, and a copy machine to reproduce written tests are the principal requirements of the 40 experiments, which investigate such things as gender differences, learning skills, perception, and logic. with an added sprinkling of classic concepts, terms and guidelines for interpretation, the experiments aren't rigorously scientific, just fun and challenging. A great change from the usual "science experiment" book.
    Ready-to-Use Differentiation Strategies - Grades 6-8
    Ready-to-Use Differentiation Strategies introduces various activities and strategies that can be implemented in any content area in grades 6–8. Each differentiation strategy encourages higher level thinking and intellectual risk taking while accommodating different learning styles. This book also provides templates that can be used to develop new lessons using each strategy. Designed for students grades 6-8, Ready-to-Use Differentiation Strategies provides an easy-to-use way to begin differentiating for all students in the classroom.
    Robert Gardner's Favorite Science Experiments
    For ages 9-12, this book is a collection of more than 30 easy-to-perform science experiments that takes you on an eye-opening tour of the facts, figures and forces that govern our world. It includes experiments on astronomy, biology, light, battery, acids and bases, friction, etc.
    Science Is... A Source Book of Fascinating Facts, Projects and Activities
    For ages 6-14, this book is a collection of science activities with more than 450 ideas, attention-getters, projects, experiments, games, puzzles and stories. All areas of science are covered -- matter and energy; the human body; the environment; rocks; plants; animals; insects; weather; stars and planets; and technology.
    Science Wizardry for Kids
    This book has more than 200 safe, fun, easy-to-perform experiements that teach young people, ages 9-12, basic concepts of physics and chemistry with amusing illustrations throughout. Experiments deal with the environment, fooling the senses and magic tricks with colors and light.
    Shakespeare for Kids: His Life and Times - 21 Activities
    This book is a combination of a children's biography of Shakespeare and a collection of hands-on projects related to his life and times. Many of the projects are theater-oriented, including costumes, props and sound effects. The book contains historically accurate text, illustrations, and projects.
    Spatial Reasoning Puzzles That Make Kids Think!
    Designed to engage even the most reluctant math learner, in this fun and challenging book, students must conquer four types of logical and spatial reasoning puzzles (Slitherlink, Hashiwokakero, Masyu, and Yajilin). The rules for each type of puzzle are very different, but easy to understand. The challenge is for students to apply their critical thinking skills to new situations and develop new strategies for solving each puzzle. Teacher support is provided for solving the puzzles and also for helping students to create puzzles of their own.
    Spelling Power, 4th Edition
    The latest edition of this award-winning spelling program includes a digital tutor, new DVD seminar and a number of other updates to accomplish it's goal - to teach solid, basic spelling skills. Geared toward homeschoolers, Spelling Power can be beneficial for gifted students because it allows them to work at their own pace and accelerate through curriculum when needed.
    Teaching Values: An Idea Book for Teachers (And Parents)
    In this workbook, Gary A. Davis provides activities and excercises for teaching students ages 9-15. Objectives and discussion questions for more than 50 lessons are included. Pages are reproducible and include checklists, quizzes and word searches. Davis assists educators in discussing universal values using creative lesson plans, questions, and role-play.
    The Biology Coloring Book
    Learn about the basic processes of life and the interactions of living things with their environment. Readers are tutored through the fundamental concepts of biology and the evidence and reasoning processes which led to them, while the colors and movements form mental associations which improve comprehension and memory.
    The Coloring Review of Neuroscience
    This step by step text by D. Michael McKeoug his designed as a supplement to an introductory neuroscience course and is intended to provide the beginning student with a global view of the field.
    The Geography Coloring Book
    The Geography Coloring Book provides an opportunity for students to make their own brightly colored world atlas and reference book. Even without coloring the book, it is an easily accessible world reference book. There is descriptive text which provides information and background, both physical and political, and instructions on how to use the book. There is also an index including a dictionary that can be used for two kinds of quizzes.
    The Klutz Book of Animation: How to Make Your Own Stop Motion Movies
    This book is a complete how-to treatment of stop-motion magic, from practical instruction to ready-to-shoot scripts. The software you’ll need is available as a free download, ready to use on any computer (PC or Mac). All you need to provide is a video camera, a computer, and a way to connect the two. Attached to the book is a piece of low-tech, non-toxic clay, ready to be molded into a million different heroes starring in your very own fantastic animated films.
    The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations
    The classic Russian book by Boris A. Kordemsky is marvelously varied with puzzles ranging from simple "catch" riddles to difficult problems. Grades 9-12
    The Out-Of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids With Sensory Integration Dysfunction
    This companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A. presents activities that parents of kids with sensory integration challenges can do at home with their child to strengthen their child's abilities - and have some fun together along the way. Find more than one hundred playful activities to help develop and organize a child's brain and body.
    Values Are Forever: Becoming More Caring And Responsible
    Parents, teachers and youth leaders will enjoy teaching character development using this creative workbook by Gary A Davis, Ph.D. Activities covering values such as: Life Goals, Accepting Differences and Earning Respect. He asks students, ages 9-15, to think for themselves. Lessons progress from easy decisions and choices to those with more serious long-term consequences.
    Visual Perceptual Skill Building, Book 1
    This book is intended for children in grades K-4 with developing visual perceptual skills. It has excercies in mazes, visual discrimination, visual closure, visual memory, visual sequential memory, and visual spatial relationship.
    Vocabulary from Classical Roots
    This is a workbook series offering five levels of vocabulary studies. The publisher describes the layout: "Lessons begin with a Latin phrase frequently used in English and contain 11-15 words, plus: phonetic pronunciation; parts of speech and multiple definitions; illustrative sentences with culturally varied literary, historical, or geographical references; derivations of words; related forms of the same word; familiar words based on the same root; challenge words based on the same root; pictorial illustrations of varying style and mood, including humor; exercises on synonyms, antonyms, analogies, sentence completions, and usage; vocabulary in context in paragraph form."
    Word Roots
    Word Roots are workbooks for ages 8 through adulthood. By teaching students to recognize the prefixes, roots, and suffixes that can reveal a word's meaning, students expand their vocabulary, as well as their comprehension and spelling skills. Wonderful for warm-ups or word-of-the-day exercises, each activity introduces Greek or Latin roots, then builds understanding with English counterparts.
    Wordly Wise (Book Series)
    These books teach vocabulary by giving students words to read in context, to write in sentences, and to recognize their meaning in exercises.
    More than 3,000 different vocabulary words are introduced and taught in a series of nine books of increasing difficulties. Words are drawn from literature, textbooks, and SAT-I vocabulary lists.
    Writing Fabulous Sentences and Paragraphs
    This workbook helps elementary age writers refine their sentence and paragraph writing. It contains reproducible pages, which provide practice in the basic components of writing including excercises to help students write more complex sentences, use figurative language, organize writing and thoughts, and more.

  • Websites & Other Media: Commercial

    Bright Minds
    This website connects children with tutors in order to receive higher grades and better understand materials.
    Miquon Math Materials
    This series of workbooks, published by Key Curriculum Press, is targeted at K-6 homeschooled students. The material is not specifically designed for the gifted, but students can utilize advanced grade materials. As part of the coursework, students build models for concepts to prepare them for written work.
    RHL School
    This website provides educators ready-to-use worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. These worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons.
    Singapore Math & Science Books
    Singapore Math offers series of books on both math and science appropriate for classroom use and homeschooling. There are six different series of math programs from pre-school to college and two levels of science: primary and lower secondary. They offer textbooks and workbooks as well as teacher's guides. Offers placement tests, placement guides, scope and sequence, answer keys and online forum help.