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Here are some fun and engaging websites for gifted students! These range from videos to games, readings, and so much more!
Hoagies' Gifted Kids and Teens
This website has links to a variety of resources for gifted students including but not limited to reading lists, movies, software apps, magazines, games, brain teasers, and more! This website is an excellent resource for gifted students.
Mensa for Kids: Games
Mensa for Kids is an excellent website that provides educators and parents with beneficial resources for students. However, there are games that students can access directly whenever they want! These games are fun and engaging for gifted students and help them challenge themselves in their free time.
National Geographic for Kids
National Geographic has just the website for gifted students! This website is suited for students and contains games, videos, animal information, and more!
National Geographic has many challenging puzzles of different kinds that promote critical thinking and problem-solving. Try out matching puzzles, photo puzzles, mazes, and more!
The Kid Story
The Kid Story contains countless resources for gifted and talented students. The first link is to websites categorized by subject for gifted students, and the second link is to books suited for gifted students.
Storybird
Storybird is a website that allows students to choose illustrations and create their own stories! This engaging website allows students to be creative and display their personality. It is free to sign up and create stories. To access more features, you can subscribe for 4.99 a month.
Code.org
This is a coding software that allows students to create their own codes! Students have a variety of choices when using this app. It is also separated by grade level to ensure the coding software is appropriate for the student. This is an excellent resource that allows gifted students to think outside the box and try new things!
The New York Times: Games and Puzzles
It is not uncommon for gifted students to simply get bored. If you are looking for a challenge to get your brain working, these word games and logic puzzles are for you! The New York Times has a variety of games and puzzles that are quite challenging but very fun to play! They come out with new ones every day.
Exquisite Minds
It can be difficult to find affordable resources for gifted and talented students. This website is a perfect solution! Exquisite Minds has a variety of free brain games for gifted students. They range from puzzles to games to riddles and more!
Neuroscience for Kids
For our gifted children who love science, check out this cool website that has experiments you can do at home, puzzles and worksheets, writing projects, and more! There are plenty of engaging activities on this website that promote critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.
Science for Kids
Another website for our science-loving gifted children is Science for Kids! This website contains many resources that promote creative thinking, critical thinking, and problem solving, including experiments, games, facts, quizzes, projects, videos, and more!
Lumosity
Lumosity is an online brain training program that allows students to train their brains through games. These games promote skills including problem-solving, critical thinking, and more. It is free to sign up and use with limited access. To include all games and progress tracking, a purchase is necessary.
It's important that gifted learners know and understand that they are not alone. Through my GIFT 4100 course at ECU with Dr. Novak, we watched numerous Ted Talks given by gifted individuals or individuals who were knowledgeable in giftedness. The video on the left titled "Tall Poppies: Growing up Gifted" by Emily Murman focuses on Murman's experience as a gifted person, challenges she overcame, stereotypes she faced, and her educational career. The video on the right titled "What I Learned as an Ex-Gifted Kid" by Carol Cannistra focuses on Cannistra's experience of starting college at the age of 13. She discusses her successes and failures and what she is now learning as an "ex-gifted" adult. These videos and the speakers are amazing and show an insight into giftedness that not many people would see firsthand. I believe that gifted students can benefit from listening to other gifted individuals speak about their experiences.
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