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Beautiful Feet Books is a publisher of Rea Berg's History Through Literature, study guides, and a variety of children's literature.
http://www.bfbooks.com/
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"The Textbook League was established in 1989 to support the creation and acceptance of sound schoolbooks. Our chief activity is the publication of The Textbook Letter (or TTL, as it is called), which we mail to subscribers throughout the United States. The subscribers include classroom teachers, officers of local school districts, officers of state or county education agencies, and private citizens who take a serious interest in the quality of the instruction offered in the public schools. "
http://www.textbookleague.org/
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An online catalog of "positive and uplifting" reading material. Chinaberry offers items to support families in raising their children with love, honesty and joy to be reverent, loving caretakers of each other and of the earth.
http://www.chinaberry.com
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Cobblestone Publishing, publishes several magazine titles for children; "Calliope"(world history), "Odyssey" (science), "Faces" (world cultures), "Appleseeds" (different themed issues, for younger students), "Cobblestone" (American history), "Footsteps" (African-American heritage) and "California Chronicles". Cobblestone also publishes teaching materials on various subjects, mostly historical.
http://www.cobblestonepub.com
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Academic underachievement. Workplace performance problems. Inflexible institutions. Talents developed fully, at the expense of the full self. In more than 15 years of working with gifted and talented people, I've seen many of them struggle with issues like these. As a result, I've become convinced that focusing on their identity as a gifted person -- and how that relates to the whole self -- is the foundation for their growth. Learning how people are gifted and understanding it in the context of family, friends and co-workers is always the firs...
http://www.counselingthegifted.com/
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Dandy Lion Publications is a leading publisher of educational teaching materials for gifted children. Their teaching resources stress the development of creative and critical thinking for students in grades K through 8. They offer a variety of Books (and workbooks!) in the areas of creativity, logic and thinking skills, literature and reading, language and writing, poetry, research and learning skills, mathematics, science, enrichment and special units, personal and interpersonal skills, and various resources for teachers.
http://www.dandylionbooks.com/
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This resource offers a wide selection of technical training books on several software packages. Doctor Walt provides a variety of illustrated books, with hundreds of screen captures and step-by-step instructions that simplify the learning process.
http://www.docwalt.com/
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Free Spirit produces award-winning gifted resources that help children and teens think for themselves, succeed in life, and make a difference in the world.
http://www.freespirit.com
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This online curriculum reatiler features an alphabetical list of classic novels that Glencoe has developed into literature study packages. They provide a brief description of each book along with a list of related readings and a downloadable study guide. The related readings include poems, articles, essays and short stories. The study guide is in a PDF format and can be downloaded and copied. They sell the packages complete with a hardcover copy of the book, the readings and the study guide.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/index.html
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As the nation's leading educational publisher for grades 6-12, Glencoe provides more of what you need to teach effectively and efficiently - and to meet the diverse learning needs of your students.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/catalog/index.html
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This website is the on-line catalogue for Great Potential Press (formerly Gifted Psychology Press), a company that specializes in books for parents, teachers, counselors and educators of gifted and talented children. The titles cover guiding gifted and talented children, creativity, college planning, self-esteem, legal issues, smart girls, mentorship, leadership development, parent advice, and more.
http://www.giftedbooks.com
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This is a wonderful source for books to use for History, Literature, Art, Music, and Nature Study. It is a great resource for anyone using a Classic Curriculum, but those who are not will also find materials here. Full of historical non-fiction and fiction, study guides, activity books, reference books, biographies, etc.
http://www.greenleafpress.com/
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A great site that provides links to many popular authors, illustrators, and books.
http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/studentlinks/authors.htm
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A club where kids can talk about the books they like to read. Features reading lists for many ages, study guides and discussion questions
http://www.booknutsreadingclub.com/
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BookCrossing is a global book club that crosses time and space. It's a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries. Do you like free books? How about free book clubs? According to BookCrossing's web site, their goal is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a book exchange of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind. At BookCrossing.com, you will find tens of thousands of book reviews, book ratings, and book recommendations, because each time a book changes hands our members can leave journal entries telling the ...
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
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This website offers a large collection of 3,077 free classic books online. Users can search for a book, read it online and even add your own annotations to any of the classic books. The website is free however some functions require free registration.
http://www.classicreader.com/
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Cottonwood Press often uses an offbeat approach and a sense of humor to get students’ attention, especially when it comes to topics that can be perceived as boring. They challenge the students to think and encourage them to tap into their natural creativity. The basics are addressed — "but with flair!"
https://www.cottonwoodpress.com/
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EducationNews.org is a fresh approach to the age-old problem of increasing coverage of education news. Unfortunately, education is not a topic that news organizations are able to provide premium coverage to all the time, thus ironically, all education experts face the same problem - the difficulty of educating the public. The mission of EducationNews.org is to become the most frequently used tool on the Internet for disseminating education news.
http://www.educationnews.org/
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"Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
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The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. A magnet for scholars from around the globe, the Folger is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, as well as magnificent collections of other rare Renaissance books and manuscripts on all disciplines—history and politics, theology and exploration, law and the arts. Included in the collections are over 310,000 books and manuscripts; 250,000 playbills; 27,000 paintings, drawings, engravings, and prints; and ...
http://www.folger.edu/Home_02B.html
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Publisher of books and periodicals on identifying and teaching the gifted. Publishes numerous rigorous books in the sciences, mathematics and humanities.
http://www.giftededpress.com
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This website, designed by the Great Books program at Mercer University, provides links to academic sites with background information about the historical eras represented by the Great Books. This timeline and accompanying websites provides useful background information to accompany the reading of the Great Books.
http://www.mercer.edu/gbk/gbk/gbktimln.html
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The Great Books Foundation offers people of all ages an exciting way to read and discuss outstanding works of literature. As a nonprofit educational organization, we publish reading series for children and adults and conduct training in the shared inquiry method throughout the United States and abroad.
http://www.greatbooks.org/typ/
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This book, written by Terry W. Neu, Ph.D., Rich Weinfeld, combine field-tested strategies and advice with case studies of boys across the nation to give smart young boys and their parents a strong guide for ensuring boys' success in school and the future.
http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=605
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Wendy Skinner shares her family’s story of struggle and eventual success in working with the school system to meet her children’s needs. Enlightening anecdotes of the author’s experience demonstrate strategies for minimizing parent-school conflict. Learn how to build trusting relationships with teachers and administrators, and how your voice can change your child’s life.
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Quarterly magazine-type newsletter with articles and book/product reviews of general interest to the parents of gifted and highly gifted children. Regular features include product tips, highlights of educational programs, social and emotional needs of gifted children, technology, parents platform, consultant feedback on questions, expert views and opinions, research briefs and relevant book reviews.
http://www.dukegiftedletter.com/
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Nature Journal is a great resource for students, teachers, and parents who have an interest in science, genetics, physics, evolution, and many more exciting topics.
http://www.nature.com/nature/
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This magazine is put out by the Smithsonian Institution. Its subject matter is eclectic, though mostly centered around history of cultures, art, language, geography, and sciences. Though targeted at adults, many articles are suitable for intelligent children as well.
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/
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The Center at Western Kentucky University publishes this magazine in Winter and Summer issues. Older editions are available online.
http://www.wku.edu/gifted/
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This website is an on-line book that covers Astronomy of the Earth's Motion in Space, Newtonian Mechanics, The Sun, Spaceflight and Spacecraft, and a Math Refresher. It was originally intended for high schoolers, but the author has fleshed out many sections and some information is at the college level. The author has included a set of lesson plans to go along with the online material.
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sintro.htm
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This website offers information that can be downloaded in book form (153 pages), or viewed on line. The book offers a simplified view of what design considerations and science a mechanical/civil design engineer must know when designing a rollercoaster. It is intended for the middle or high school teacher, however, profoundly gifted students with an interest in physics, math and/or rollercoasters may enjoy reading the book/website.
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Science/Physics/book/
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