WHAT ARE G/T CURRICULUM EXTENSION UNITS?
G/T Curriculum Extension Units (CEUs) offer opportunities for selected students in grades one through five to participate in thematic units that engage them in advanced-level thinking, questioning, and research, while extending the essential curriculum. Students who participate in these units receive instruction from the G/T Resource Teacher approximately two hours a week. Children develop an individual or group product for presentation and evaluation by an appropriate audience. Enrichment unit products will be shared with the community at the school enrichment fairs in the spring of each year.
The G/T Curriculum Extension Units strengthen the essential curriculum by providing extended rigor and challenge. Students who participate in these units benefit from a compacted curriculum that allows for differentiation. Compacting is a process that changes the pace of instruction based on student need. Compacting is a differentiation strategy used to modify or streamline the essential curriculum in order to eliminate repetition of previously mastered material. CEUs provide highly able/high achieving students’ time to achieve and demonstrate academic excellence through enrichment and acceleration activities linked to the essential curriculum.
CEUs for each grade level are as follows:
Grade 1
The Art of Language
Children Just Like Me
Grade 2
We Can Dig It! (archeology)
Are We There Yet? – America on the Move (transportation)
Grand Prix Dining and Amusements (math)
Grade 3
Where In The World Is Cinderella?
Bridges
Logic and Reasoning
Grade 4
Our Place In Space
Ancient Civilizations
Cherish the Chesapeake
Grade 5
Ocean
Politics of Persuasion
Leadership