SEED: Silverquicken Episodes for Enrichment and Diagnosis helps you recognize and develop talent you might have otherwise missed in your 3rd-8th graders. With over 50 compelling activities spread over 17 episodes, you will reach learners who are in need of acceleration and support across Convergent, Divergent, Cooperative, and Reflective thinking AND feeling skills.

SEED invites learners into the secret, exciting dream world of Silverquicken through short, immersive adventure stories. Each episode engages learners in playful (and rigorous!) puzzles, strategic games, and collaborative challenges, offering opportunities to reflect on both the cognitive and affective sides of the experience. Teachers can gauge learners’ interests and skills to provide extensions that promote even further growth in targeted areas.

These ready-to-implement activities take just 20-30 minutes and are the perfect complement to any curriculum. The multi-disciplinary approach ensures that learners build problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, and teamwork skills across all content areas.

Plant the SEED, spark the adventure, and watch brilliance grow.

Developed through the partnership of gifted education expert Brian Housand, Ph.D., and Silverquicken co-founders Chris Ryan and Leslie Kerner, SEED is a dynamic fusion of gifted pedagogy, creative storytelling, and immersive problem-solving. Designed to engage and nurture learners through puzzles, strategic challenges, and critical thinking adventures, this collaboration brings together best practices from gifted education to help educators spark curiosity, stretch young minds, and cultivate hidden talents in every learner.