Gifted+Project

Gifted students have needs that must be addressed to challenge them to build learning that they believe to be relevant and significant enough to spend time with the project. The project will need to challenge them to interpret the facts and content they gather into work that gives them an opportunity for legacy with future learners. This is where they will begin to really begin to make learning their own. In our 9th grade geography class, the project is to do a travel guide for the country of their group’s choice. Using the computer is an asset for all the student and for the gifted student this is a medium that allows them to boost their creativity without limits of some of the typical areas where students struggle. These students are especially capable of seeing beyond the regular solutions to those which are “out of the box”. In the scenario students will be expected to create a travel guide to convince someone to take a trip to the country based on the appeal to explore the culture, climate, history, and other aspects of the country. The gifted students will help select the areas that interest them and expand on these.


 * Possible Projects to choose: **

Create a commercial using the video cameras and editing software we would provide for some tour, restaurant, site or experience that a potential visitor would be interested in purchasing. Develop a brochure using the desktop publishing software that would meet the design criteria and technical requirements of the brochure to introduce potential visitors to the things that you can see in the country of choice. It will include important statistical information as well as facts and features of the country that would make a visitor know what to expect. Another project would be to create a web site for this country tour; including the same information above in a web site model.

In any of the above the use of a wordle, wiki or collaborative document is the key to student success. Student groups will ALL present and teachers will document the variety of ways in which technology played a part in the success of the project.