Options provided by the programming should have links to the general curriculum as well as reaching through and beyond the regular curricular scope . Affective concerns of gifted students and modeling reflective academic practice are also necessary components of solid gifted curriculum. Curriculum is constructed around themes that are appropriate to gifted learners, incorporates a wide variety of student interests and abilities, lends itself to generalizations, and to seeing relationships. Content relates to the theme, is multi-disciplinary, contains necessary information, is consistent with the needs, interests, and abilities of the gifted, and allows for the perspective of time, relating past, present and future. It is, at the same time, a learning tool and a verification of learning.
Variety is a fundamental to the use and development of curriculum products.