Brilliant Activities for Gifted and Talented Children: That Other Children Will Love Too (Brilliant Activities)

A volume offering ideas for classroom activities for children aged six and up. It is geared towards gifted and talented children, but other children should benefit from the activities too. The activities cover many types of creative and critical thinking skills that should enable all children to develop their cognitive processes. The work that the children produce should be extremely different because the activities allow room for creativity and open-ended answers. Some of the activities can be stretched out for days, or the Brainteaser section can be used for a quick warm-up to spark interest. The author seeks to encourage children to think on six levels: knowledge; comprehension; application; analysis; synthesis; and evaluation.