Sparking the Smallest Scientists
Lisa Reaugh, Annie Burleigh, Joy Giovanini
Highly Capable Resources
Gifted Education books:
Teaching Gifted Kids in Today’s Classroom Susan Winebrenner
Differentiating Instruction with Menus Series (Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies K-8) Laurie Westphal
When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All the Answers Judy Galbraith
Practical Ideas that Really Work for Students Who are Gifted Gail Ryser
Trade books:
Q is for Duck Mary Elting and Michael Folsom
Harold and the Purple Crayon Crockett Johnson
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
If the World Were a Village David J Smith
If You Hopped Like a Frog David M Schwartz
Archibald Frisby Michael Chesworth
Rosie Revere, Engineer Andrea Beaty
Girls Think of Everything Catherine Thimmesh
Young Chapter Series- Cam Jansen, Amelia Bedelia, Nate the Great
Famous Artists books:
Art for Fun Projects Sue Lacey
Month by Month Masterpieces Bobbi Chertok
Brain Teasers, Critical Thinking Puzzles, and Logic books:
Scamper and Scamper On Bob Eberle (K-5)
I Believe in Unicorns Bob Stanish (K-3)
Mind Joggers and More Mind Joggers Susan Petreshene (K-8)
Visual Discrimination Jean Edwards (2-8)
Analogies for Beginners Lynn Chatham (K-3)
Primarily Logic Judy Leimbach (2-4)
Primarily Math Sharon Eckert and Judy Leimbach (2-4)
Lollipop Logic Bonnie Risby (K-2)
First Time Analogies Dianne Draze (K-3)
Thinking Through Analogies Bonnie Lou Risby (3-6)
Critical Thinking Activities Dale Seymour (3-6) (More in this series)
Word Search Puzzles series for Young Einsteins Helene Hovanec (3-6)
Word Bogglers and Alphabet Soup Dianne Draze (3-6)
Creative Problem Solving Series Authors- Bob Stanish, Bob Eberle, Donald Treffinger
Creativity Unhinged Marjorie Sarnat
STEM books:
STEM to Story Jennifer Traig (5-8)
One Hour Mysteries Ellsa Ahlin (4-8)
Mystery Festival and all other GEMS units (2-4 unit and 5-8 unit)
Challenging Whodunnit Puzzles and series Jim Sukach
Two Minute Mysteries Donald Sobol
Classroom Activities for the Busy Teacher: NXT Damien Kee
Educate NXT Chris Bracken
Inventors Workshop Alan McCormack
Dry Ice Investigations GEMS LHS
Hands-On Equations Borenson
Team Accelerated Instruction
Publishers and Online Resources:
Critical Thinking Books and Software
Prufrock Press
Hoagie’s Gifted
Lawrence Hall of Science GEMS
Interact Simulations
Free Spirit Publishing