Learning goals: Teacher Facing Draw a diagram to justify that two expressions that are related by the distributive property are equivalent. Explain (orally) how to use the distributive property to identify or generate equivalent algebraic expressions. Use the distributive property to write equivalent algebraic expressions, including where the common factor is a variable. Full lesson plan (warm-up, activities, synthesis, cool-down prompt) from 6.6 Expressions and Equations, Grade 6.