#smithingifted

#smithingifted

  • Adding Turing Tumble to the #smithingifted Curriculum

    Adding Turing Tumble to the #smithingifted Curriculum

    I am adding Turing Tumble to the fourth nine weeks of each year in the #smithingifted curriculum as a hands-on computational thinking milestone. Students work through twelve Google Sheets across 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade, and Turing Tumble gives them something exciting to look forward to while reinforcing logic, perseverance, debugging, and problem-solving.

  • Adding Cricut to the Gifted Classroom: Where Creativity Meets Innovation

    Adding Cricut to the Gifted Classroom: Where Creativity Meets Innovation

    This blog shares why Cricut is being added to the #smithingifted curriculum as more than just a craft tool. In the gifted classroom, Cricut can support creativity, design thinking, entrepreneurship, STEM, problem solving, and student voice. Although I have not used it with students yet, I am excited to introduce it as a way for…