Links, Games & Activities


The Set Daily Puzzle.  I highly recommend this game for students that are 
gifted.  It can be addicting.  Try it!
http://www.setgame.com/set/puzzle_frame.htm

Hoagies Gifted Education Page- A world of resources for gifted students and 
parents of gifted children.  A most valuable website for information and 
additional links.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org

Logic puzzles, with printable solving grids
http://www.mysterymaster.com/puzzles.html

New York Times on the Web- Learning Network for students and parents.  
Includes newsstories, test prep, word of the day, crosswords, and other fun 
stuff.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html

Fact monster.  This site has analogy of the day, word of the day, fact of 
the day, and much more.  Check it out on a regular basis.
http://www.factmonster.com/

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Eric Clearinghouse on Gifted Education-Resources on the education and the 
development of gifted children.
http://www.ericec.org/

Fun Interactive quizzes
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/quiz/

Geography Quiz.  Great preparation for 4th and 5th grade students who will 
take the National Geographic Geography Bee the week following Thanksgiving 
holiday.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

Read about 100 remarkable people of the 20th century
http://www.time.com/time/time100/

Smithsonian Institute
http://www.si.edu/

All about Earthquakes- Information, Games and More
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/

TAG/Tennessee Association for the Gifted- Nonprofit support group advocating 
for the appropriate educational opportunities for gifted students.
http://www.tag-tenn.org
http://www.tag-tenn.org

An awesome website for parents and students that shows how stuff works.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

You may play "Petals around the Rose" against the computer at the website 
below:  (Remember, we never tell once we figure out the secret.)
http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm

Have you seen Google Earth yet?  What an awesome site.
http://www.earth.google.com

How many states can you place?
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

Wonderful games and activities for gifted children and information for 
parents.http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr067.shtml
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr067.shtml

Daily Sudoku
http://www.dailysudoku.co.uk/sudoku/kids/

Who Want's to Be a Millionaire?
Click the "play online" link
http://www.millionairetv.com/

Making and Breaking Codes
http://www.nsa.gov/kids/home.cfm
http://www.nsa.gov/kids/home.cfm

Funbrain
http://www.funbrain.com/

Look up the definition of a word.
Find a synonym or antonym for a word.
http://www.dictionary.com

Provides more than 30 games that test players' logic skills and spatial 
sense. Some of the games also involve number sense or basic arithmetic.
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/index.html

Looking for answers
http://www.answers.com/

White House information for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/whlife/index.html

Discovery Kids
http://kids.discovery.com/

Scholastic
http://scholastic.com/

The Pondering Page - Questions and Brainsteasers to ponder.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/7940/wits.html?

PBS Kids
http://pbskids.org/

Goofy Gopher
http://www.lookandfeel.com/spring2002/

   
Cool websites from yahooligans - updated
weekly.http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/docs/cool/

Cool Optical Illusions
http://auto.search.msn.com/response.asp?MT=brainteasers+for+gifted+children&srch=5&prov=&utf8

Vanderbilt Saturday School for the Gifted.
Spring Academy taking applications now.  To be held Feb. 7-March 14.
http://www.pty.vanderbilt.edu/

List of Summer Programs and other programs for the gifted in the United 
States and Tennessee.
http://www.gt-cybersource.org/ArticlePrintable.aspx?rid=12649


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