1. Math, Science and Technology Gifted and Talented Mrs. Elaine Frederick

2. Class Meetings • Classes will meet biweekly. • Students will meet by grade level. • Classes will meet in the Technology Lab.

3. Goals and Objectives: • Students will understand that collaboration is an essential part of the scientific process and scientists do not work in a vacuum. • Students will understand that there is a scientific process consisting of developing a question, forming a hypothesis, performing investigations or experiments, gathering of data, and analysis or evaluation of data.

4. Continued • Students will understand that the scientific approach is not utilized only in the science laboratory but used to solve problems in any real life situation. • Students will understand that there are patterns all around them. • Students will understand that being correct is not a requirement and that there is value in being wrong.

5. Developing the Three Story Intellect • Enhance the cognitive levels of classroom interaction • Make sense out of the information gathered • Apply and evaluate actions in a novel situation

6. Wait Time • What is it? • Control wait time

7. Design Process • Identify the Need or Problem • Research the Need or Problem • Develop Possible Solution(s) • Select the Best Possible Solution • Construct a Prototype • Test and Evaluate the Solution(s) • Communicate the Solutions • Redesign

8. The 16 Habits of Mind identified by Costa and Kallick: • Persisting • Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision • Managing impulsivity • Gathering data through all senses • Listening with understanding and empathy • Creating, imagining, innovating • Thinking flexibly • Responding with wonderment and awe

9. Habits of Mind-continued • Thinking about thinking (metacognition) • Taking responsible risks • Striving for accuracy • Finding humor • Questioning and posing problems • Thinking interdependently • Applying past knowledge to new situations • Remaining open to continuous learning

10. Sites of Interest • http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/hoagies_kids.htm • http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tvantine/edgt.html • http://gtworld.org/?