5 Comprehensive Activities for Algebra 1 - Unit 1. Activities A - E will provide a variety of worksheets and activities for the students to complete. Most importantly, the Algebra 1 Unit 1 Activities provide a variety of difficulty for all levels, and all students.

Activity A:

This is the perfect activity to provide differentiation, scaffolding, and variety to solving equations! This coloring activity comes with four worksheets which allows options and differentiation. Students can work on all the same worksheet, the teacher can select the student’s level, or the students can be provided choice!

The four levels include:

· One step Equations

· Two step Equations

· Multi-step Equations

· Equations (a variety of all three types)

Scaffolding supports all learners, especially when learning a concept and to help avoid misconceptions. At the bottom of each worksheet is an answer bank for students to determine if the student solved the problem correctly, and to see what color they need to color that problem on their coloring sheet.

To offer variety, there are three different coloring sheets!

Activity B:

This is the perfect activity to provide differentiation, scaffolding, and variety to solving equations! This mystery phrase activity comes with two worksheets which allows options and differentiation. Students can work on all the same worksheet, the teacher can select the student’s level, or the students can be provided choice!

Mystery Phrase 1 includes mostly two step and some multi-step equations. Mystery Phrase 2 includes almost all multi-step equations.

Scaffolding supports all learners, especially when learning a concept and to help avoid misconceptions. At the bottom of each worksheet is an answer bank for students to determine if the student solved the problem correctly, and to fill in the letter to the problem they solved.

Activity C:

This scavenger hunt is for one and two step equations! Students will walk around the room solving problems and going to a new problem based on their previous answer. This is the perfect activity to get students up and moving around the room and great for practice or review!

I love scavenger hunts, because it allows students to know immediately if they got the right answer or if they made a mistake and need to fix something. This helps to reinforce skills to students and strengthen their knowledge on one and two step equations.

Activity D:

This worksheet packet includes 6 worksheets ranging in three levels. Each worksheet has the exact same answers, with different problems! This allows students to work in partners without copying their partner’s work. Due to offering three levels, this means each student is receiving the proper level they need, while checking their answers with another classmate. I love using this strategy in my classroom, and it brings a whole new dimension to strategically choosing partners for partner work in class. This is meant for easy differentiation in the classroom!

Another way to use this resource, is for students to complete each set of worksheets, and allow them to check their own answers. For example, the teacher can assign the odd problems have each student does number one on both two-step equations sheets, they can self-check because they should get x = -1 on both worksheets.

It is also fun to offer all three options to students and allow them to choose which level they want for themselves! The teacher can write the answer to each problem on the board, and students can work independently through the worksheet they self-selected.

I have also used it where I assign one worksheet for homework one night, and then another level the next night and students can self-check because they should get the same answer.

There are six worksheets:

- 2 two-step equations

- 2 two-step and multi-step equations

- 2 multi-step equations

All worksheets have 15 questions, with the same answers. This is designed on purpose for students to be able to self-check if they got the correct answer.

Activity E:

I love using this Algebra 1 Worksheet in my classroom, to help solidify student knowledge on equations. Students can solve equations, however having student’s identify errors and correct the equation allows students to recognize common mistakes and prove they understand basic concepts of algebraic thinking. Identifying the mistake and correctly resolving the equations, allows students to reach higher ordered thinking and greater understanding of solving equations.

This worksheet offers 12 multi-step equations problems worked out incorrectly. Students need to identify the mistake and then correctly resolve the problem.