Nancy Heilbronner

10 Things to Say to Gifted Children is your go-to guide to nurturing bright minds and a sense of growing confidence! Using short and engaging vignettes, discussion questions, and practical parenting and teaching tips based on decades of research, each easy-to-read chapter dives into key academic and social-emotional issue with which many gifted children struggle, and then provides strategies for how to navigate them. Featuring conversation starters that get at the heart of the issue and “Bridging the Gap” strategies to help parents and teachers become a power team, this book is ideal for anyone who cares about gifted children and wants to promote their healthy academic and social-emotional development. Whether you are a parent seeking to advocate for your child or a teacher looking to create an enriching classroom environment, this book is a must read you’ll find yourself reaching for again and again.

Let's Be Scientists takes a novel approach to science by identifying the skills that practicing scientists use and then providing a framework for teachers to integrate these skills into their classrooms. Using the book, teachers will learn how to lead students through scientific investigations and how to encourage debate, collaboration, and communication-all without sacrificing content. With numerous easy-to-understand examples and reproducible forms, this book provides teachers what they need to build an exciting science classroom. In the end, classrooms will become science labs and students will become junior scientists, practicing science in the most authentic manner possible.

Every day, students encounter countless data-gathering opportunities that present the potential for creating new knowledge. Think Data: Getting Kids Involved in Hands-On Investigations With Data-Gathering Instruments introduces data-gathering instruments such as a blood pressure monitor, pH strips, a salt monitor, and a pedometer; the types of data they can gather; and what kinds of questions analyzing that data can answer. This resource is the ultimate guidebook for helping students engage in investigative learning. Reproducible student activity sheets introduce 12 inexpensive, easy-to-find instruments and guide students through the process of setting up and performing experiments in which they will collect and analyze data. A further step asks students to develop ways to share their data and put it to use. Here the data comes alive in the real world