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Challenging Minds 1st Edition

by Lynne Kelly (Author), Susan Stonequist (Author)
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All too often, gifted and advanced learners are just accelerated, without fueling the creative thinking and problem solving that they are capable of. This book bursts with thrilling, mind-stretching enrichment activities designed to stimulate higher level thinking for gifted students in grades 5-12.

Challenge the learners in your classroom to explore and evaluate assumptions they make about their world; conduct surveys about current, hot issues and analyze the results; or solve complex logic mysteries in small learning groups. These activities and lessons vary in length from one class period to several weeks, and have enough activities to be used all year.

Skills are developed by using:

  • creative research ideas,
  • creative thinking tasks,
  • daring debates,
  • blueprints for business, and
  • philosophical problems.

For example, in one activity, students are asked to review various classification systems from areas as diverse as biology and history. Then, they discuss and identify the various steps needed to create a classification system. Next, students consider and discuss various examples about humor, then create, test, and evaluate their own classification system for humor. Finally, students produce their own examples of humor and classify them according to the system they have created.

One of the features that makes this book outstanding is that each activity has been field-tested for at least five years in secondary classrooms. The book and each lesson in it provide in-depth information and advice for the classroom teacher.

Grades 5-12

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  1. ISBN-10
    1882664205
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1882664207
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1996
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    8.5 x 0.35 x 11.02 inches
  7. Print length
    154 pages
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With a background in teaching, Lynne Kelly started her writing career with educational books―10 of them―including Challenging Minds: Thinking Skills and Enrichment Activities.

Susan Stonequist works at Sunset Ridge District 29 in Northfield, IL, a suburb of Chicago. She currently teaches seventh- and eighth-grade math courses and math enrichment activities for grades 6-8. She also taught mathematics and science in Avoca School District 37 in Illinois. In 1997, Susan earned her Master of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Susan presented at the 2010 National Association for Gifted Children conference. She has a supportive husband, Mike, and three wonderful children, Brendan, Connor, and Abby. She can be reached at stonequists@sunsetridge29.net.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (January 1, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 154 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1882664205
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1882664207
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 - 17 years
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 5 - 12
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.35 x 11.02 inches
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I am a science writer and academic fascinated by just how humans manage to know so much stuff - and how we can all learn more.

My new book, 'The Knowledge Gene' will come out on 3 September 2024. It explains how humans have been genetically encoded to use music, art, story and our connection to our physical world to store vast amounts of knowledge as a community. It also explains why evolution has maintained neurodivergence is a portion of the population worldwide. We are no longer using the potential that evolution ensured we had because we have sidelined so many of our innate skills - especially music, art and memory palaces.

In the more recent of my previous books, 'The Memory Code' tells the story of the extraordinary memory methods used by Indigenous cultures the world over, and why that explains the purpose of monuments like Stonehenge. Then 'Memory Craft' explains the way you can implement these memory techniques in contemporary life to memorise almost anything and keep your brain active.

'Songlines: the power and promise' and 'Songlines for Younger Readers' were written with Indigenous coauthor, Margo Neale. They offer an Indigenous and non-indigenous perspective on the way Australian Aboriginal songlines work to store vast amounts of information in memory.

My PhD research provided the foundation for these books. Cambridge University Press has published the academic version, 'Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies' giving a solid peer-reviewed academic reasoning for my ideas.

Writing dominates my life. I started with educational books - 10 of them - logical because I was a teacher. I wrote a novel, 'Avenging Janie' and then three popular science books: 'The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal', 'Crocodile: evolution's greatest survivor' and 'Spiders: learning to love them'. I overcame my arachnophobia a bit too well and now I am obsessed by spiders. I simply adore the gorgeous critters.

But it will be knowledge systems which will dominate my writing for many years to come. I simply love the stuff!

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