5E Lesson Plan

Teacher: Ms. Torres

Date: September 15, 2018
Subject area / course / grade level: Algebra 1 8th-9th grade
Duration: 45 Minutes
Materials:
Manipulatives (shoulder partners will share), worksheet, construction paper, pencil, sticky notes.

TEKS/SEs: 5A: Solve linear equations in one variable, including those for which the application of the
distributive property is necessary and for which variables are included on both sides.
Lesson objective(s): Using manipulatives, students will learn to solve linear equations with one variable.
Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: All type three type of learning styles will be used.
Auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning will happen with all of the different activities.
ENGAGEMENT/Exploration 3minutes
Given manipulatives, in groups, students will create a simple, addition, subtraction problem. (Example: My
dad owes me 15$ (therefore the manipulatives will be red) and he pays me 7$ (7 green manipulatives). Then
what happens? Subtract seven red squares from 15 green manipulatives, therefore I have 8 red
manipulatives, therefore my dad owes me still 8$.
EXPLORATION 3minutes
Given manipulatives, in groups, students will create a simple, addition, subtraction problem. (Example: My
dad owes me 15$ (therefore the manipulatives will be red) and he pays me 7$ (7 green manipulatives). Then
what happens? Subtract seven red squares from 15 green manipulatives, therefore I have 8 red
manipulatives, therefore my dad owes me still 8$.

EXPLANATION 10-15 Minutes

Teacher will explain how manipulatives work. Teacher will teach how to use them towards the students
advantage in order to solve linear equations. Also, examples will be given. Students will take notes in a
construction paper. Students will also follow along working out the examples given by the teacher. After they
are done, students will glue their construction paper on their notebook.

ELABORATION 25 Minutes
Using the manipulatives, students will solve the worksheet working with their shoulder partner (student and
teacher).

EVALUATION 3 Minutes
Teacher will give one problem to all students to submit on a sticky note. This become their exit ticket.