Six Units for Primary (K-2) Gifted/Talented Students. Self
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 333 675 EC 300 431 AUTHOR McCallister, Corliss TITLE Six Units for Primary (K-2) Gifted/Talented Students. Se?f (Psychology), Plants (Botany), Animals (Zoology), Measurement (Mathematics), Space (Astronomy), Computers (Technology). INSTITUTION Education Service Center Region 7, Kilgore, Tex. PUB DATE 88 NOTE 403p. PUB TYPE Guides - Classroom Use - Teaching Guides (For Teacher) (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC17 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Animals; Computers; *Curriculum; Diagnostic Teaching; Experiential Learning; *Gifted; Learning Activities; Measurement; Plants (Botany); Primary Education; Self Concept; Space Sciences; *Student Educational Objectives; *Talent; *Teaching Methods ABSTRACT This curriculum for gifted/talented students in kindergarten through grade 2 focuses on the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains in the areas of language arts, mathematics, music, physical education (dance), science, social studies, theatre, and visual arts. The curriculum is student centered, experientially based, exploratory, holistic/integrative, and individualized by diagnostic prescriptive teaching. An introductory section provides goals; long-term objectives; and information on adapting the curriculum by kind and degree of giftedness, minority subpopulation, and delivery system. The curriculum covers six units: self, plants, animals, measurement, space, and computers. For each unit, the curriculum contains background information, a chart depicting visual organization of the topics, short-term objectives, field trip ideas, speaker
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