This is a full 1-hour (or block day) lesson on one-step equatons. The lesson may take more than just 1 hour or a block period because it’s detailed and depends on students’ prior knowledge. The lesson includes

· Warmups

· Critical thinking

· Word problems to connect with real-life situations

· The learning objectives with essential questions

· Direct instruction

· Checking for understanding questions

· Student collaboration opportunities

· Guided practice

· Independent practice

The learning objective is clearly written for students as well as the essential questions.

The lesson format is in a PowerPoint presentation. It begsins with a warm-up, then examples for notes, checking for understanding, a whole-class guided practice problem, partner activity, critical thinking problems, and a fun interactive game. The critical thinking questions give students the opportunity to analyze, make connections to the real world, and synthesize information using real-world applications.

The guided practice problems are on task cards to make it a game for students to play as they solve with partners. It’s best to print those task cards (one set per partners) then have them pick & choose which ones they want to do. My suggestion is they do the work on whiteboards, or standing up, or on their desks or easel paper.

The independent practice (homework) is also in Word format and can be edited as needed.