TY - JOUR
AU - Wilson, Hope E.
AB - Spicing Up Classrooms Using Creative Challenges Lisa DaVia Rubenstein and Hope E. Wilson Mrs. Hernandez hands out hangers, Gifted programs have long relied standing of the content while increas- Styrofoam cups, tape, paper, toilet paper upon creative challenges (activities in ing their critical thinking skills. Perkins rolls, and paper clips to her excited third- which students are asked to create a and Salmon (1988) and Beyer (2008) grade mathematics class. “Class, today I product or an idea in response to spe- discussed the importance of embed- would like you to work with your home cific teacher directions) to spark ideas, ding thinking skills in content and groups to create an amusement park collaboration, and exploration. These explicit teaching for transfer, arguing ride using only the items I have given challenges, however, have often been that without this conscious approach each group,” Mrs. Hernandez instructs. devoid of context. Gifted students are to teaching, students are not able to “These rides need to teach the riders about pulled out of the classroom to build a transfer their skills or content knowl- multiplication, but how you accomplish bridge that holds a specified amount edge to new situations. This article this task is 
TI - Spicing up Classrooms Using Creative Challenges
JF - Gifted Child Today
DO - 10.1177/107621751103400215
DA - 2011-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/spicing-up-classrooms-using-creative-challenges-rGhgw56QPk
SP - 57
EP - 65
VL - 34
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -