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Student Work

Gifted LearningLinks instructors often post select student work to an online display board, allowing classmates to review and respond to it. Students also refer to the display board for ideas and inspiration for their own assignments. To get a sense of the display board’s value, as well as GLL students’ impressive achievements, we invite you to browse the work samples below. Perhaps next year it will be your essay, movie or geometric model featured here!


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Other Examples

  Bubble Experiment
Enrichment Introduction to Chemistry
Lab to investigate the effects of various chemicals on bubble-blowing
 
  Memoir
Descriptive Writing
This personal memoir, written by an 8-year-old, is an example of the interaction between teacher and student during the writing process.
 
  The Light Sensor
Robotics Discovery I
Video of a student-created robot with a light sensor
 
Jon Dee Graham
  Jon Dee Graham web site
Enrichment Biography
This student-created web site about his father
 
  Bean Lab
Chemistry Honors
This hands-on Bean Lab simulates the calculation of the relative atomic masses found on the periodic table
 
  An Argument in Support of Home Schooling
Honors Logical: Critical Thinking
Persuasive writing and rules of argumentation are exemplified in this essay in favor of home schooling
 
  Enzymes Lab (Version 2)
AP Biology
This lab report on enzyme kinetics is an excellent example of how the use of online labs and graphing software develop skills in analysis, synthesis and evaluation
 
  Optimization
AP Calculus AB
In order for the ant to walk from one corner to the opposite, it must walk through a minimum of two faces
 
  The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions
AP European History
An essay on some of the factors that set the stage for the beginning of the industrial revolution
 
  Cricket Chirps
AP Environmental Science
A lab experiment investigating the role of environmental variables on cricket chirps
 
  The Invisible Man
AP Literature and Composition
A reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man analyzes the author’s concept of humanity
 


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