Gwinnett Alliance for Gifted Education’s Saturday Exploration Program (SEP) is designed to broaden the academic learning of gifted and high achieving students in a small classroom setting.
SEP provides a wide variety of challenging and enriching classes using 21st century strategies in a project-based learning format.
Each unit of study combines creativity, leadership, inquiry, critical thinking, and technology.
Each lesson is designed to encourage students to discover, explore, and grow.
Striving for Excellence in Gifted Education
Register for GAGE's Spring Saturday Exploration Program.
Here is an opportunity for your child(ren) to participate in one or two of our challenging courses designed for gifted and high achieving students.
Gifted certified teachers created and will be teaching the enrichment courses.
The Saturday Exploration Program covers all 4 Saturdays!
Description:Do you enjoy reading and exploring FairyTales? Through this exciting experience in the “Fairy Tales Footprints” curriculum, you will learn strategies for creative problem solving and conflict resolution. You will compare different versions of the same story. This class will take you on a fun filled journey through several of your favorite fairytale stories!
Science Kitchen & STEAM Labs
Description:Do you like doing experiments, hands on activities, and being creative? If so, this is the class for you. In this Science Kitchen and STEAM Lab, we will conduct a variety of engaging and creative hands-on projects that explore and excite students in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math using items found in the kitchen, art supplies, science materials, and electrical units. This class will ensure students have fun while learning and inventing.
Reader’s Theater
Description: Do you like to perform and create? Join us in Reader’s Theater, where you will be able to collaborate with others, select scripts, use your creativity to create props, and perform! In this engaging and entertaining class, students will explore the fun of theater. They will read scripts while enhancing their acting skills and build confidence!
Middle – 4th & 5th Grades
Order in the Court: Mock Trial
Description:“Order in the Court… and you are the judge!” You will act as judge, jury, attorney, defendant or witness in a case against notorious criminal. As you take your case to trial, you will present facts, learn how prosecutors and defense attorneys question witnesses, and discover how juries examine the evidence to reach their decisions. Do you like to argue or prove your point? If you answered yes, then Mock Trial is the class for you?
Math 3 Act Tasks
Description:Math 3 - Act Tasks provide students to analyze a real-world problem through mathematical inquiry in 3 different stages – investigators, collaborators, and problem solvers. Students will become investigators as they engage in deep mathematical thinking by collaborating with peers to make predictions, ask questions, and combine their learnings to find the solution to the situation.
Sphero Mini-Golf Challenge
Description: Are you interested in coding and mini golf? Come learn how to design and build a mini golf course surrounding a theme of a common passion using recycled materials. Then you will learn how to code a mini-Sphero that you will use to play as a golf ball. Afterward, you will compete in a golf tournament. Be prepared to use your creative and innovative skills to design a challenging course, but playable. This course requires you to bring your laptop.
Sixth, Seventh, & Eighth Grade
Game Design
Description: Students will learn basic video game coding concepts by making different types of games. They’ll create a racing game, a platform game, and a launching game to name a few. They’ll incorporate aspects of their favorite games to create an ultimate game experience. This is a fast-paced class.
GAGE Members: $150
Non-GAGE members: $175
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