Middle School / High School Slope Lesson
I. Content:
A. Standards
B. Enduring Understandings
& Essential Questions
C. Objectives: (SWBAT)
II. Assessment:
A. Formative Assessment
(Active Strategies to Check
for Understanding, Guide
Practice, Exit Class, etc.)
B. Summative Assessment
(when appropriate –
quizzes, objective tests,
essays, projects, etc.)
III. Instruction:
A. Anticipatory Set
B. Instructional Activities
(includes Introduction,
Presentation, Clues for
Discovery, Modeling, and
engagement in gradual
release, as planned)
With special attention to:
CCSSM-A-CED-2: Create equations in two or more variables to
represent relationships between quantities...
CCSSM-Practice Standard 2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
CCSSM-Practice Standard 3: Construct viable arguments and critique
the reasoning of others.
The slope of a function is a rate of change. Linear functions have a
constant rate of change.
Determine the slope of a linear function from a table of values or
from a graph of the function.
Socrative question responses
Worksheets
Groupwork: story problem
Taxi cab story problem
Describing features of graphs using socrative surveys – students
submit responses
Socrative class discussion for comparing two graphs
Guided practice determining the slope from graphs and from tables
Group work discussing and coming up with a method for solving a
story problem
i. Differentiation Mixed-level groupings allow for
higher level students to discuss
ideas and clarify understandings for
low-level
I can work with struggling students
during individual work time
Students who are ready can
analyze more difficult story
problems
ii. Higher Level Students have to describe their
Cognition problem solving method and must
 put their answer in context.

iii. Technology Using Socrative to record student

responses and gauge
understanding
C. Gradual Release Guided practice when completing worksheets that gradually turns
Techniques (See Formative into independent practice (teacher assisted, partner assisted,
Assessment – Checking for individual)
Understanding, Guided
Practice, Independent
Practice, Class Exit)
D. Closure Show student work and discuss their methods
IV. Reflection:
A. What Will They and I Do
Next & Why?
Special Resources Needed: