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font-size: 10pt;"><div id="AOLMsgPart_2_33ba397d-d1fa-4aab-aff0-4617e7c9b942"><div>Shannon (and others) - The National History Day Program (http://www.nhd.org/Contest.htm) does exactly this for History. Check it out. It is an excellent SUPPLEMENT TO (see? supplement to, not replacement for!) a rigorous study of history. In middle school, my daughter and her friends did a history day project on Margaret Sanger which included research, a videotaped skit, etc. Two of the three of them are now OB/GYN's. Certainly not a direct cause and effect relationship - but intriguing nonetheless. And when Whitney Young was a gifted middle school (CMSD), National History Day projects were required of all kids and were connected to the Individual Investigation component of Betts' Autonomous Learner Model. They were extremely successful in the competitions, but more than that, as kids moved from 6th to 8th grade, they improved their research and presentation skills as well as their creativity because they also got to see what kids from other schools were doing. </div><div>Susan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>When you develop a program that hooks 4th-8th grade
students into history in the same way, my hat will be off
to you. But please research the program that another
professional on this listserv discussed before putting it
down.<br>
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<div>Shannon Gagel</div>
<div>Gifted Intervention Specialist</div>
<div>Aurora City Schools</div>
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Susan R. Rakow, Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Program in Gifted Education
Department of Curriculum and Foundations
Cleveland State University
2485 Euclid Ave., EB374
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
216-523-7296
s.rakow@csuohio.edu
“Modern cynics and skeptics see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.” -John F. Kennedy
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