Berger, S.  kidsource.com Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students. Retrieved on <st1:date w:st="on" Year="2004" Day="29" Month="9" ls="trans">September 29, 2004</st1:date> from ERIC EC Digest.

            ABSTRACT:  This article has a lot of information on how important it is to challenge the gifted student.  It gives specific examples of how to modify curriculum to fit the needs of these students.  This article discuses the importance of quality questioning to help the gifted student think at a higher level and in a more complex way.  By giving the students more challenging work and not just more of the same regular work, teachers are allowing the gifted child to be the most productive he/she can be. 

            EVALUATION: The Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and the U.S. Department of Education funded this article.  This article has very clear ideas for meeting the curriculum needs of gifted children.  It discusses modifying: process, environment, and expectation and response.  This is a quality article because it has the most comprehensive, specific ideas for teaching gifted children that I came across.

Delisle, J. (2003) To Be or To Do: Is a Gifted Child Born or Developed? RoeperReviewVol.26, Issue 1, p12, Retrieved <st1:date w:st="on" Year="2004" Day="26" Month="9" ls="trans">September 26, 2004</st1:date> from EBSCOHost.

            ABSTRACT:  This article gives background on the history of gifted students.  It addresses different techniques used throughout the last century in identifying giftedness, including, measuring the circumference of the skull, hereditary influence, and IQ.   This article has a great argument of nature vs

            EVALUATION:  This article is the most comprehensive discussion I was able to find about the development of gifted children.  The author is a professor of Education at Ohio. The article presents both nature and nurture but does tend to favor nature.  This article was published in fall of 2003 so I am confident with the era of the research. I feel that it is a quality resource, but it does simulate my interest in any argument on the nurture aspect of development.

Silverman, L. (2003). What We Have Learned About Gifted Children Gifted <>  Retrieved <st1:date w:st="on" Year="2004" Day="5" Month="10" ls="trans">October 5, 2004</st1:date> from www.gifteddevelopment.org   

            ABSTRACT:  This article has a wealth of information in easy to read format.  It has a lot of statistical data regarding gifted children.  It has comparisons between, boys and girls, siblings and non-siblings, IQ levels and addresses the topic of learning disabilities that we do not often associate with gifted children.

EVALUATION:  This is a very good article that has information on all aspects of giftedness.  Linda Silverman is the Director of the Gifted Development Center (GDC) which has been in operation since June, 1979.  The GDC focuses all of its research on gifted children so that they can acquire as much information as possible from these children.  This article is the result of the largest study of gifted children ever to have been done and I feel that this is a very credible resource.