Planned Experiences: Regular Classroom (K-2)
Planned Experiences are lessons designed to develop and reveal advanced creative and critical thinking skills. They are presented and assessed by the campus GT facilitator in grade-level classrooms. All Coyote Ridge K-2 students participate in Planned Experiences throughout the school year. Students who create products that indicate emerging GT potential will be monitored by the GT facilitator and the classroom teacher for curriculum differentiation needs and testing may be pursued if needed.
LISD and "Texas Performance Standards Project" -Critical Thinking & Research Studies: GT Classes 3-5
LISD Project Based Learning and Texas Performance Standards Projects (TPSP) are nine-week, advanced-level research units, designed to develop sophisticated products and/or performances in areas of interest for a targeted audience. Units include the following and are based on the capacities of Self-Awareness, Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Research, and Problem Solving. Topics vary by grade level.
Grades 3-5 Perceptions, Adversity and Challenges, Design, Discovery & Enthusiams
Thinking Skills: GT Classes (3-5)
Thinking Skills activities are designed to develop critical, creative, and logical thinking in the GT classroom by the campus GT facilitator. Examples of activities include logic and word puzzles, analogies, Sudoku, creativity tasks, Khan Academy, iPad apps, manipulative puzzles, and nonfiction reading materials.