Talented and Gifted students learn about inventions, hearts & enigmas

Students in HPISD's Talented and Gifted programs are using analytical and critical thinking skills in their daily learning units. Here are just a few examples of the special learning occurring in our TAG classrooms.
 
Second-grade TAG students have been studying inventive thinking and inventors. After a lesson on the inventor, author and cartoonist Rube Goldberg, the students tried their hand at creating their own zany inventions. Keep an eye out for one of them on a store shelf one day.

Third-grade TAG students are studying heart health. The students are looking forward to hosting several guest speakers in the near future, and they are especially excited to dissect pigs' hearts with assistance from a community expert.

TAG students in fourth grade recently researched enigmas and developed their own cases for and against the reality of these enigmas. They also presented newscasts about enigmas, basing them on Orson Welles' infamous 1938 radio broadcast, War of the Worlds.