Reviews
Review: Gifted Child Today - September 1, 2009
Would you like to offer the students in your classroom the opportunity to use newly acquired knowledge in complex yet practical ways? Do you want them to learn to assess real-life situations from a variety of perspectives based on alternate theories? Most teachers would answer "yes" to these questions; however, due to the required content that must be covered in the classroom every year, it is difficult to find the time to provide students with such learning experiences. Mystery River: A Problem-Based Ecology Unit may be just the resource you need to introduce your fifth- through eighth-grade gifted students to problem-based learning while addressing the standards in a variety of content areas. Author Mark Bohland makes this unit easy to implement by providing everything needed to facilitate a problem-based simulation that will empower the students in your classroom to take ownership of their learning as, with each new artifact provided, new questions arise and new knowledge emerges.