On 11/07/09, Dee wrote:
> That is why I am asking. I have NEVER worked with TAG students
> and I am lost. What would they actually enjoy?

Gifted kids are kids---they like fun activities. They often like
puzzles and games that use their brains, so a strategy game club
might be popular (chess, go, blokus, connect-4, ...).

Field trips are popular with most kids---field trips appropriate for
gifted kids include science museums, sewage treatment plants,
engineering design firms, and other places where science and
technology are showcased. Art museums can also be good for some
gifted kids, but many art museums are distinctly unwelcoming and
uninteresting to children---you have to choose carefully there.
Artists' studios with artists willing to demonstrate techniques
(particularly showy ones like glassblowing) are more promising.

A small number of kids will be attracted by intellectual
competitions. Math teams get a few, robotics teams get more, writing
competitions get rather less group response, ... .

Afterschool theater will attract a number of kids, including a
larger than proportionate share of gifted kids.

I've had good luck teaching the Scratch programming language to 3rd
through 10th graders (though not all at the same time---generally no
more than a 5-year age range). Scratch is good because it gets the
kids creating animations and video games right from the start, and
can appeal to artistic, narrative, mathematical, or programming
interests.

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