LINKS

GENERAL INFORMATION: 
 

• Center for Gifted Education at William and Mary

• Davidson Institute for Talent Development

• Eric Clearing House on Disabilities and Gifted Education

• Gifted Development Center

• GT-CyberSource Database

• Hoagies Gifted Education Page

• Michigan Alliance for Gifted Education

• National Association for Gifted Children

• National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented

• National Society for Gifted and Talented

• Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted

• World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, Inc.

• Gifted Development Center

COURSEWORK/PROGRAM SITES AND INFORMATION:
 

• Center for Talent Development

• Destination Imagination

• Future Problem Solving Program

• Michigan Virtual High School

• Michigan Technological University-Summer Youth Program

• Spartan Youth

• Virtual University

• Math World

• Ask Jeeves for Kids

• Ask-an-Expert Sources - The sites on this page are links to experts in K-12 curriculum-related topics.

• IBM Mentorplace - Through this corporate volunteer program, IBM employees provide students with academic assistance and career counseling

• International Telementor Program - The ITP provides academic mentoring support from professionals of ITP sponsor companies. All student/mentor communication is project-focused and facilitated by a teacher or parent.

(Note: You can conduct a search using a search engine and the keywords ask-an-expert or telementoring for many more possibilities.)

• Scientific American: Ask the Experts

PRINT RESOURCES (textbooks, books, articles):

• Refdesk.com - Online dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedia, worldwide weather, news, "facts at a glance."

• Digital Reference Library - 130 online references, including dictionaries of Shakespeare, rhyming, science, the Renaissance, British history, and more.

• Artcyclopedia - Web-based resource of great art.

• Arts and Letters Daily - Excellent site for accessing other print resources: newspapers and news centers around the world, magazines, columnists, radio news and music, search engines.

NONPRINT RESOURCES (videos, audios, pictures, graphs, maps):

• Video Placement Worldwide - Provides information on free education videos.

• Music Database - Over 21,000 albums and 7,300 artists listed with access to Web sites and distributors for every artist.

• Shepperd Sofware - Offers teachers educational games like Astro-mania and Brainbuilder (math)

• Reason!Able - Trial version. For the development of critical thinking skills, mapping.

• Arachnoid.com - "Careware," including programs for building Web pages, editing and presenting electronic slide shows, creating graphs.

• The Amazing Picture Machine - Features pictures of aircraft, U.S. cities, animals, dinosaurs, famous people, 20th century world leaders, et.al.

• Google Map Search

• The National Geographic MapMachine - Access to a variety of maps: street, facts and flags, historical, Mars.

FUN:

• Figure This

• How Stuff Works

• Mad Scientists Network

• Museum of Unnatural Mystery

• Superthinkers

• Test Your IQ, Personality or Entrepreneurial Skills on the Web

• Think Quest

• Brainbashers