Super Smart: 180 Challenging Thinking Activities, Words, and Ideas for Advanced Students (Grades 4-10)

By Stephen S. Young

Book Overview

Get the minds of bright kids jump-started with these exciting, motivational Super Smart brain challenges. Put the minds of smart kids in overdrive Filled with 180 "activity-a-day" classroom warm-ups, including new, challenging vocabulary activities and critical thinking activities that push the limits, Super Smart will pique students' curiosity and tickle their funny bone.

This unique book, designed to challenge the brightest kids, offers teachers and parents a fun collection of activities--logic puzzles, riddles, optical illusions, math mysteries, and thought provokers.

These short, attention-getting mind stretchers serve to grab students' attention and create a frame of mind and an atmosphere of fun, curiosity, and discovery conducive to getting kids off to a good start. There are three hooks for each day: a vocabulary word, a thought for the day, and a critical thinking hook, each designed to get students thinking and into a receptive mindset.

Grades 4-10

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593631553
• ISBN13: 9781593631550
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Very useful book

My daughter-in-law is teaching a fourth-grade Gifted Class. As this is her first year, I found this book for her to get some ideas. She has implemented many of the activites and her class loves them.

A wonderful educational supplement

Super Smart: 180 Challenging Thinking Activities, Words, And Ideas For Advanced Students (Grades 5-12) by educator and academician Stephen S. Young includes "Words of the Day" (each illustrated with an amusing black- and-white picture), "Thought of the Day" (such as "It is observation, not old age, which brings wisdom"), logic puzzles, mysteries to solve, word games, riddles, math games, and card tricks, and much more. Organized on a day-by-day basis, each page full of entries for mind-stretching are designed to quickly get students into a contemplative mindset. Ideal for schoolteachers, homeschoolers, and parents or babysitters interested in sharing a moment of brain-stimulating activity, Super Smart is a wonderful educational supplement.

Proof that education and learning can be fun!

"Super Smart" couldn't be a more appropriate title or description for this new educational workbook. The first thing you notice is that this textbook is different---it's smart, entertaining, academically challenging and it's engaging. Containing 180 multi-topic exercises, Dr. Young's book is intriguing---from his introduction to an examination of how he formats exercises and the content he chooses to present. "Super Smart" is conceptually creative, drawing on Dr. Young's skills and experience as an educator and his appreciation and practice of the value of humor in the classroom and our lives. Stephen Young demonstrates that textbooks can be fun by seamlessly weaving education and entertainment---the result is an effective classroom resource that will likely ensure academic success for those utilizing it.