3.1 Slope (Unit: Linear, Course: Algebra 1)

This is a typical, 50-minute lesson plan to fit a traditional Algebra 1 classroom. It is downloadable as a PowerPoint, but it has been formatted so that you may print 2 slides per page to create a handout, or worksheet, for students.

This lesson is all about how to find "slope" within the unit of "linear functions." I make sure to target our focus vocabulary of "slope" while showing all the different methods of finding slope, whether a table, graph, or points. Students like this menu of options since they can choose one to focus best on.

With this lesson, I include the following:

• Course outline (aka schedule, curriculum)
• Instructional outline (aka lesson plan)
• English vocabulary review
• Math vocabulary review
• Warm-up (aka entry task, formative pre-assessment)
• Targeted explanation for this lesson's vocabulary
• Review of prior math skills, ex. exponents
• Lesson (aka instruction)
• Exit ticket (aka exit slip, formative assessment)
• Practice problems
• Links to outside resources for additional practice
• One-slide lesson summary
• Dictionary (for those students who may have been absent for previous lessons) [2 slides]
• Works cited [10 slides]
• Answer key is included.

This lesson is one in a series of a year-long curriculum. But please note, each unit is meant to last a month, and each concept a week. In this structure, even though this lesson is meant to last one day, the idea is to further develop the depth and breadth of this concept over the week, to better develop student understanding and memory.

This lesson was written to support under-served student populations, specifically multi-lingual learners (MLL / ELL / EL / ESL), especially the growing communities of Spanish-speakers in the United States. For this reason, English is also targeted as an area of growth, using supports such as translations, images, cognates, concrete topics, relevant scenarios, synonyms, and vocabulary. And from my experience with newcomers from Spanish-speaking countries, because they are often balancing basic needs from Maslow's hierarchy, they can also be often absent. For this reason, I've added a dictionary of vocabulary at the end to print and share at your and your student's convenience.

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