gifted children

Ten-year-old Christie Holmes is not only rich and a child prodigy, but she is also the niece of the great detective Sherlock Holmes. Left mostly in the care of maids and servants, Christie and her giant hound Nelson solve mysteries, sometimes even lending her uncle and his friend Dr. Watson a hand.

Christie Holmes uncovers dark secrets from her maids' pasts and makes revelations about the Hope family while being confronted with her own future as a lady. Meanwhile, the ten-year-old sleuth must solve her greatest, and most deadly, mystery--before her parents come home from India.

A program for fourth through eighth graders, which presents twelve multidisciplinary engineering challenges for student teams to solve in competition and provides introductory teamwork exercises, ten warm-up problems, scoring rubrics, tips for teachers and coaches, and a competition administration checklist.

A collection of literature activities for gifted students, featuring brief summaries of suggested titles, each followed by one or more activities; grouped in the categories of picture books, fairy tales and fantasy, the classics and poetry, exploring diversity, learning from the past, and heroines and heroes.

During a battle with Takomitsu, Al discovers his ultimate purpose, but he may lose Mew forever.

This Preparation guide covers each activity in the four titles (Grolier science activity series) and discusses the goal, student objectives, prelab discussion guide to the investigation, vocabulary or glossary, guide to additional resources and suggestions for further study for each project.

Offers teachers twenty practical strategies for teaching gifted students in grades six through twelve.