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Kalish, Rosann Brown – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1997
Describes a successful program that used a step-by-step approach for teaching research and presentation skills to gifted sixth-grade students. Steps included developing a preliminary outline, exploring various sources, organizing information, using higher-level thinking skills, creating a rubric for evaluating presentations, providing handouts,…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Gifted, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Kirman, Joseph M. – Gifted Education International, 1986
The feasibility of using Landsat multispectral images as a geography enrichment activity was evaluated with a below average 6th grade class. Curriclum implications (such as the opportunity for deeper analysis for gifted or highly motivated students) are noted. Teaching objectives were generally achieved by the nine students tested. (DB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Enrichment Activities, Geography Instruction, Gifted
CURTIS, ALICE; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS TEACHING GUIDE IS PRESENTED TO ASSIST THE TEACHER IN WHOSE CLASSES ARE ONE OR MORE GIFTED PUPILS READING ABOVE GRADE LEVEL. DESIGNED FOR USE WITH GIFTED PUPILS AT GRADES FIVE AND SIX, PART 1 PROVIDES GUIDANCE FOR TEACHING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF ONE AUTHOR TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. THE METHOD USES THREE GROUPINGS OF BOOKS. THE "A"…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Gifted, Grade 5
Feldhusen, John F.; Nimlos-Hippen, Amy L. – Gifted Education International, 1992
The effects of various gifted programs on the self-concepts and depressive symptoms of 82 gifted and talented fifth- and sixth-grade students were evaluated. Sixth-grade gifted groups (pull-out and self-contained) scored higher on self-concept than did nongifted groups. No effects on depressive symptoms were found. (DB)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Depression (Psychology), Gifted, Grade 5
Horner, Dale H. – 2000
A study examined how to increase active participation in a language arts class, based on the belief that such an increase would lead to better test scores and better learning. Subjects included a class of 30 homogeneously grouped accelerated sixth grade students, which meets five days a week for 90-minute periods. During the study, the class was…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
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Hay, Cathryn A.; Bakken, Linda – Roeper Review, 1991
The study, with 36 sixth grade girls in a gifted program and 34 in the regular program and their mothers, found statistically significant differences between nongifted and gifted daughters on the Attitudes toward Women Scale, between daughters and mothers on the Fear of Success Scale, and among all 4 groups on the Occupational Check List.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Fear of Success, Females, Gifted
Woodbury, Virginia Garton – 1979
One in a series of units for gifted students, the booklet focuses on humanities instruction in grade 6. Program background information stresses the values of humanities as a way of studying the connections in the student's life, particularly the connections between subject areas and how they relate to humans' feelings and thoughts. Procedures…
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Gifted, Grade 6, Greek Civilization
Ritter, Carol – 1992
This study compared the academic math achievement of two homogeneous classes of gifted and talented sixth graders, with one group attending year-round school (N=22) and the other group following the traditional school calendar (N=26). Both groups were taught the same pre-algebra math program in the 1991-1992 school year, and data were gathered…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Extended School Year, Gifted, Grade 6
Vida, Louisa Kramer – 1978
A literature program for gifted sixth graders meets one hour per day three days a week and covers four topics during the year: biography, realistic fiction, poetry, and tragedy. The biography unit consists of reading three biographies, completing three corresponding directed reading activities, and writing a five page research project on a famous…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Exceptional Child Education, Gifted, Grade 6
Felton, Thomas A., Jr. – Gifted Education International, 1998
Describes a curriculum design approach, "the ill-structured problem," based on real life situations, that was used for a summer gifted foreign language program for fifth- and sixth-grade students in the Chesapeake Public Schools, Virginia. Elements of problem-based learning are described, including the problem comes first, the problem is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Enrichment Activities, Gifted, Grade 5
Papert, Seymour; And Others – 1979
During the school year 1977/78 four computers equipped with LOGO and Turtle Graphics were installed in an elementary school in Brookline, Massachusetts. All sixth grade students in the school had between 20 and 40 hours of hands-on experience with the computers, and the work of 16 students ranging from intellectually gifted and average to learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Graphics, Computer Programs, Computer Science Education
Watt, Daniel – 1979
During the school year 1977/78 four computers equipped with LOGO and Turtle Graphics were installed in an elementary school in Brookline, Massachusetts. All sixth grade students in the school had between 20 and 40 hours of hands-on experience with the computers, and the work of 16 students ranging from intellectually gifted and average to learning…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Graphics, Computer Programs, Computer Science Education
Bowers, Patricia Shane – 1987
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the 4MAT instructional system on achievement and attitudes in science. Fifty-four academically gifted sixth grade students in three schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro (North Carolina) City Schools were randomly assigned to two groups, a 4MAT group and a Restricted-Textbook group that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Style, Elementary School Science
Kaplan, Sandra – 2002
This book provides 12 theme-based model lessons for gifted students in grades 6, 7, and 8. Introductory material addresses ways to integrate middle school curricula with established national standards and principles of differentiated curriculum. Each lesson follows a five-part outline: (1)motivation (stimulating the learner); (2) input (providing…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Design, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
Jensen, Rita A.; McMullen, David – 1995
This study explored relationships between gender and the math and science interests of fifth and sixth graders (N=105) who participated in a summer enrichment program for gifted students. A researcher-developed questionnaire was utilized to obtain demographic data about the students and their intent or desire to pursue careers in math and/or…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Age Differences, Career Choice, Elementary School Students