Student Enrichment ActivitiesOne of our goals at WCAGT is to provide events and information about opportunities that will stimulate, challenge and excite our children's imaginations. Please come be a part of planning Activities for G/T students!
Summer 2008 Free Local Activities
Creative AvenuesCreative Avenues strives to cultivate creativity in a supportive and nurturing environment along with providing educational support and enrichment. Our mission is to create an avenue for all students to explore a broad range of art forms and activities in an attempt to develop life-long learners that have an appreciation and love for the arts and education. We will endeavor to make the arts and education accessible to everyone by providing instruction at a reasonable cost and offer scholarship opportunities to qualifying students. Check out the creative avenues website for classes and activities Don't let it happen again!!! "Super Saturday Cancelled "Due to a lack of volunteers, be holding Super Saturday has not been held for the past two yers. If you would like to see this event in 2009, please plan on attending our meetings in the fall in order to help organize logistics and presenters, as well as help on the day of the event. As an example of the type of classes typically offered on Super Saturday, see the April 2006 list:
If you have questions, send send e-mail to supersaturday@gifted51.org Summer Camps & Enrichment OpportunitiesGo to our list of summer camps and other enrichment opportunities for gifted kids. If you know of more to add to this list, please send us an e-mail with details so we can post it to share with everyone. 4-H is Not Just for FarmersUnless you grew up in a 4-H family, you might not know what a challenging, fun experience it can as a 4-H member. 4-H offers a wide variety of opportunities for kids to explore their world, themselves and their community. 4-H is a learn-by-doing program with more than 200 projects to choose from in the following areas: Bicycles, Ceramics, Childhood Development, Clothing, Computers, Conservation and Wildlife, Creative Arts, Consumer Sciences, Dogs (training, agility, veterinary science), Electricity, Entomology, Forestry, Foods, Garden & Horticulture, Global Citizenship, Heritage Arts (knitting, sewing, etc.), Home Environment, Horses, Leadership, Leathercraft, Livestock, Outdoor Adventures, Photography, Pocket Pets, Rocketry, Shooting Sports, Small Engines, Tractor, Vehicle Restoration, and Woodworking. See the 4-H Project Guide for full descriptions. 4-H is for kids in grades K-12, including the Cloverbuds program for children from 5-7. Club enrollment is usually in the autumn and projects begin in January, culminating with presentations and competition at the Mesa County Fair in July. Winners go on to State Fair in August. The Grand Valley belongs to the Tri-River Area Cooperative Extension of Colorado State University. Many clubs exist in Palisade, Orchard Mesa, Grand Junction, Fruita and the surrounding areas. Call the Mesa County 4-H Office at (970) 244-1834 for more details. National 4-H website.
Internet Resources to Challenge Today's StudentsSpecial thanks to Maureen Porter, information literacy and technology specialist for Denver Public Schools, for recommending this list of internet sites: JOURNEY NORTH Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes -- and other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events. Find standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation's premiere "citizen science" project for children. The general public is also welcome to participate. SPAGHETTI BOOK CLUB The Spaghetti Book Club web site is a place for kids who love to read and talk about books! It is the largest site of book reviews written and illustrated by kids for kids. The Spaghetti Book Club was created as a way to support and encourage kids' love for reading by giving them an opportunity to connect, on a personal level, with the books they are reading and then share their reactions, thoughts, and opinions with family members, friends, and kids around the world. SCHOLASTIC Scholastic, the global children’s publishing and media company, has a corporate mission supported through all of its divisions of instilling the love of reading and learning for lifelong pleasure in all children. Recognizing that literacy is the cornerstone of a child’s intellectual, personal and cultural growth, Scholastic, for more than 80 years, has created quality products and services that educate, entertain and motivate children and are designed to help enlarge their understanding of the world around them. MATH LEAGUE A website whose purpose is building student interest and confidence in mathematics through solving worthwhile problems. The Math League is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials to students. The Math League specializes in math contests, books, and computer software designed to stimulate interest and confidence in mathematics for students from the 4th grade through high school. Over 1 million students participate in Math League contests each year. Contest problems are designed to cover a range of mathematical knowledge for each grade level. All of the problems on each contest require no additional knowledge of mathematics beyond the grade level they test. LEARN TO DRAW CARTOON CHARACTERS Definitely a commercial site, but there is a new cartoon character each month with directions for drawing it step by step. Really a “jumping off” point for a budding cartoonist. THE ART ROOM Art sparklers to motivate and excite budding artists into action, don’t miss Artrageous thinking, Artifacts, Links – in fact don’t miss this website! HIDDEN HEROES This project encourages youth from all over the country to shine a spotlight on their local heroes and tell their stories. We believe that there are people in every community who deserve to be called a hero, and this project asks students to become detectives, journalists, storytellers, and filmmakers as they uncover the HIDDEN HEROES in their own back yards. THE POETRY ZONE A great site for budding poets…. Children’s poems published, Competitions, interviews with professional poets, a spot for children to review poetry books….more CLAY ANIMATION Clay Animation and Stop Motion Animation - Interactive Tutorials, Instructions, Lessons and Examples on Clay Animation and Stop Motion Animation. A wonderful resource for the student clay animator. A BRUSH WITH WILDLIFE Carl Rungius, one of America's finest wildlife artists, was fascinated with composition throughout his career. What can we learn from him as we make our own compositions? Introduce yourself to the animated principles of art, then create your own composition and submit it to the Critique Gallery for review! FIGURE THIS! MATH CHALLENGES FOR FAMILIES Produced by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Figure This! Mathematical challenges for families provide interesting math challenges that students can do at home with their families. THINKQUEST ThinkQuest, a program of the Oracle Education Foundation, is an international competition in which teams of students and teachers are challenged to create the best educational Web sites. These sites are hosted in the ThinkQuest Library, a free resource used by millions worldwide. KIDS ONLINE RESOURCES This site is a list and short description of safe and mostly worthwhile resources for children on the web. It is a good place to start if you are looking for a resource in a particular subject area. Many of the resources on this presentation came from this source. TRACKSTAR A great way to set up particular websites for your children. Give them easy access and keep them guided on the world wide web.
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Featured Links"Science in the Hands of Kids" (www.SITHOK.org) is the website of the Western Colorado Math & Science Center. The Math & Science Center has a variety of new exhibits. Students in District 51 of all ages, homeschoolers, and private groups are welcome to come visit. John McConnell has lots of Teachers Kits as well for classroom activities back at school. University of Denver College of Education NRICH - Enriching
Mathematics (a United Kingdom website) sponsored by Cambridge
University Millenium Mathematics Project.
NRICH publishes free mathematics enrichment resources (puzzles, problems,
investigations, games) for ages 5 to 19.
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