Students will analyze data regarding regular grade fuel prices from 1992 to the present in order to identify patterns and infer possible reasons for changes in fuel prices. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will be given a list of Geometric Terms and a value for each. They will work with a partner to search around the school for these items. They will write a sentence for each one.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will hunt for shapes described by their defining attributes.  They will find an example of a different shape and write the defining attributes.  They will create a labeled display for the classroom. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this activity students will work in pairs to go on a treasure hunt throughout the school. They will each be given a map to follow. When they arrive to a place there will be a large colorful shape. They must record the name of the shape and then answer a question about the four animal shapes near the shape. There will be four animals at every shape but only one is the correct answer. Then they will take a token and go to the next place on the map. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this activity, the teacher places a certain number of Unifix cubes (3 different colors) in a brown bag or small gift bag. The students pour out the Unifix cubes and then they will place the cubes on a mat, sort them by color, and then write a math story to reflect their grab. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will develop a deeper understanding and possibly a greater appreciation for the Hindu-Arabic (base ten) number system through exploration of a base five number system. Students will write numbers, compute within the number system, and compare the number system of Grayville to our base-ten number system. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this task, students will use noodles to make estimations using various strategies. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson is to be used when students are working with evaluating expressions using whole number exponents. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students have the opportunity to explore the history of telling time and some historic clocks.  Then they will learn how to tell time using a Roman Numeral clock (students may encounter Roman Numeral clocks in real life).  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students practice using mental math to find multiples of 10 more or less to find a hidden design on a hundreds board. Students then create their own problems. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

The students will explore the impacts of aluminum cans and the process of recycling.  The task requires the students to gather and graph data about aluminum can use as well as interpret the data collected.  At the conclusion of the lesson, the students develop a plan for future action in regards to recycling.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will explore the concept of multiplication of fractions as a means to find a fractional portion of a fraction (of a whole). They will then apply their understanding of multiplication of fractions to solve a problem in the context of a lemonade business. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will work with partners to put chips into a bag of a certain number between 11 and 30. The chips will be a different color on each side. Once the chips fall out of the bag the student will see different combinations that make the same number. They will record 4 combinations for each number. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will build on and apply their understanding of multiplication and division to determine the amount of energy used by incandescent light bulbs in an average family residence in a month. Using the information students will determine the amount of energy used by the same family, replacing the incandescent bulbs with CFLs. Students will then find the cost of lighting for each of the bulb types for a month, comparing the costs of providing energy for the two types of bulbs. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

This lesson is to be used during the probability unit. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Who really cares about precise measurement anyway?  Students will read a current article about international disagreements about measurement. Then students will find a record of the longest or shortest of something. They can share this information with classmates on a poster, bulletin board, or in a booklet.  They may want to identify the location of this record on a world map as well.  Students should give the length measurement in both customary and metric units and be able to discuss the relationship between the units. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will decide on a concrete model for subtracting multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 and will create an instructional video. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students will view a video clip, choose their own non-standard unit of measure, measure the room and then answer thoughtful questions about the activity.  Students will create a unit of measure that is equal to ten of the original unit and will make predictions about how the measurement values will change.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Students choose tools to measure the length of objects and distances in the school environment.  They explore the relationship between the size of the unit used and the number of units in the measure.  They discuss which tools are most appropriate to the situation. They consider what is the largest length or distance in their school environment that they can measure and what is the smallest object or distance they can measure in their school environment.  They may need to problem solve using the available tools.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

The students will develop an understanding of how quadrilaterals include all types of parallelograms, trapezoids, and other four-sided figures by exploring quadrilateral characteristics.  The students will understand that many types of quadrilaterals exist and that these shapes have some attributes in common.  The students will begin by comparing and contrasting various quadrilaterals with the use of Venn diagrams.  They will then move on to demonstrating their knowledge and understanding of quadrilaterals by creating a story about a quadrilateral that changes its shape (into various quadrilaterals- specific quadrilaterals such as a square, rectangle, rhombus…etc.) without losing/gaining sides.  This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.