Social and Emotional Curriculum for Gifted Students: Grade 3, Project-Based Learning Lessons That Build Critical Thinking, Emotional Intelligence, and Social Skills

by Mark Hess

Overview

The Social and Emotional Curriculum for Gifted Students series provides the gifted resource specialist, regular classroom teacher, or counselor with the tools they need to help gifted students in grades 3-5 develop interpersonal skills, reflect on their often intense emotions, and express their creativity. The grade 3 book:

• Contains five units and more than 50 hours of instruction.
• Shares helpful directions for implementing lessons and connecting content across the curriculum.
• Addresses psychosocial skills.
• Features critical thinking activities, hands-on building and design, reading, writing, creativity, and math and science connections.
• Covers relevant topics, including resilience, growth mindset, perfectionism, empathy, self-understanding and identity, friendship, and what it means to be gifted.

Each classroom-tested lesson addresses one or more affective standards from the National Association for Gifted Children, psychosocial development areas for gifted learners, and academic standards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781646321131
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/24/2021
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	1,010,762
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	8 Years

About the Author

Mark Hess is a SENG board member and the editor of the SENG Library. He is President-Elect of the Colorado Association for Gifted Students and serves as the Gifted Programs Specialist in a large, urban school district in Colorado Springs. Mark also serves as an advisory committee member for NAGC’s Teaching for High Potential. As Portable Gifted and Talented, Mark has shared over 24,000 free resources for teachers and parents of gifted children. You can visit his website at www.giftedlearners.org.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Unit 1 A Precious Gift: Introduction to Social-Emotional Learning 5

Lesson 1.1 What Is a Gifted Learner? 9

Lesson 1.2 Role-Playing Conversations About Giftedness 20

Lesson 1.3 The Precious Gift Metaphor 22

Lesson 1.4 Reflecting and Sharing a Precious Gift 26

Unit 2 My Flag: Self-Understanding and Individuality 29

Lesson 2.1 Colors and Their Emotional Effects 32

Lesson 2.2 Creating Student Flags 37

Lesson 2.3 Presenting Student Flags 40

Unit 3 Bouncing Back: Growth Mindset 45

Lesson 3.1 How Can Something Be More Than Itself? 49

Lesson 3.2 Visualizing Resilience 53

Lesson 3.3 Bouncing Back 55

Lesson 3.4 The Class Data Challenge 59

Lesson 3.5 Empowering Words of Encouragement 66

Lesson 3.6 Action and Reaction Extension 69

Unit 4 Suitcases and Circles of Hope: Identity 75

Lesson 4.1 Primary Source Photo Analysis 78

Lesson 4.2 What Items Will You Take? 84

Lesson 4.3 Building Suitcases and Crafting Items 91

Lesson 4.4 Circle Metaphors 94

Lesson 4.5 Circles of Hope 100

Lesson 4.6 Gallery Walk 104

Lesson 4.7 Feature Profile Test Extension 108

Unit 5 What Comes From the Heart: Empathy and Compassion 111

Lesson 5.1 Qualities and Expression 115

Lesson 5.2 Defining Emotions and Qualities 119

Lesson 5.3 Creating a Metaphor for Emotions 125

Lesson 5.4 Constructing the Metaphor 129

Conclusion: Dear Gifted Learner 133

References 147

About the Author 149