The book provides 13 model interdisciplinary teaching units for use with academically gifted students in grades four through nine. Each unit contains an introduction; objectives; introductory developmental culminating and evaluation activities; materials; and a bibliography. Topics of the teaching units include cemeteries, famous women, coastal warning beacons, control over one's destiny, phenomena that defy explanation, limits and regulations that frame creative efforts, development of visionary skills, futures forecasting, religions in the Middle East, newspapers, the "Lost Colony" settled by Sir Walter Raleigh, decision making, and flight. Titles and authors include: "Gone but Not Forgotten: A Study of the Cemetery" (Doris Sigmon); "A Woman's Touch: Women Past, Present, Future" (Barbara Hastings); "Beacons along Our Shore" (Gilda Barger); "Desire, Design, and Destiny" (Meredith Ebert); "Fact or Fantasy?!" (Betty Purcell); "Find Your Frame" (Bink Brown); "Images of Tomorrow--Exploring the Future" (Sherry Hoyle); "Programming Your Future: Futures Forecasting" (Margaret Stanley); "Religions in the Middle East: A Comparative Study" (Judy Craig); "The Living Curriculum: Newspapers in the Classroom" (Eilene Guthrie); "The Lost Colony" (Jan Miller); "Those Who Dared" (Carole Ledford); and "Wings for You and Me" (Martha Rice). (JDD)