- What is in the 3rd Grade TAG Curriculum?
- What is in the 4th Grade TAG Curriculum?
- What is in the 5th Grade TAG Curriculum?
- What is in the 5th Grade Verbal Curriculum?
- How do I get into GATE?
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What is in the 3rd Grade TAG Curriculum?
The 3rd Grade TAG Curriculum focuses on developing problem-solving skills.
Students will work with a variety of stimulating activities, such
as "Stories with Holes", verbal picture puzzles (Wordles), logic problems
and court cases. Students will solve court cases through assessing evidence
in order to determine the guilt or innocence of the defendent. A culminating
activity is for the students to create their own mystery.
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What is in the 4th Grade TAG Curriculum?
Students research topics of their choice using the internet and primary
and secondary sources of information. Students will then take their
information and summarize it as part of a HyperStudio presentation.
HyperStudio is an interactive, multimedia software program that is easy to
use and allows students to be creative in presenting their research. In
HyperStudio, students will create projects including text, graphics,
animation, sound and freestyle painting.
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What is in the 5th Grade TAG Curriculum?
The 5th Grade TAG Curriculum is broken up into two major parts. The first
half of the year is spent exploring and reconstructing an ancient Mayan
civilization through the use of Voyage of the Mimi II video tapes.
In the second half of the school year, students spend time participating in
a statewide competition called, The Stock Market Game. The Stock Market
Game is sponsored by the New Jersey Council on Economic Education and
teaches students about the stock market and investments. During a ten-week
period, students work together on teams to build an investment portfolio
while trying to make a profit.
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What is in the 5th Grade Verbal Curriculum?
The 5th Grade Verbal Curriculum involves reading and analyzing a variety of
short stories throughout the year to develop a better awareness of authors'
use of language and literary techniques. To better enable their
understanding of the literature, students may be asked to write alternative
endings to several stories. Through the use of story telling, students are
also given an opportunity to work on presentation skills.
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How do I get into GATE?
How do I get into GATE?
Selection is through a combination of several factors:
1. Teacher recommendation
2. IQ
3. Standardized testing scores
In addition, for Verbal in fifth grade:
A writing sample taken in the spring of fourth grade
For Math Prime:
A Math test that is given in the spring of fourth grade.
