Lesson Plan Generator

About the Lesson Plan Generator

Plan a lesson in the format your school uses, and get a clean, printable plan. Choose the 5E instructional model, Madeline Hunter’s lesson design, Gagné’s nine events of instruction, backward design (Understanding by Design) or the NCF-SE 2023 learning-outcome format; each starts with its own phases, timed for the length of your lesson, with a line under each phase saying what it is for.

Write measurable objectives with the objective builder: choose a cognitive process from the revised Bloom’s taxonomy (Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyse, Evaluate, Create), a verb, the content, a condition and how well — and it writes the sentence for you. Add what the teacher and the students do in each phase, the materials, the assessment and support for students who need it. The phases are checked against the lesson’s length and shown with their start and end times, and, with a pass, the plan downloads as a PDF or an editable Word file. Without a pass the free preview shows every page with your details and the first part of the wording readable, marked “MySmartCoPilot preview · not for use”.

Common uses

• Daily and weekly lesson plans for school teachers, in the format the school asks for.
• Teacher-training and B.Ed. lesson plans in the 5E, Hunter, Gagné or backward design format.
• Lesson plans that map to the curricular goals, competencies and learning outcomes of NCF-SE 2023.
• Writing clear, measurable objectives for a unit or a course.

The five formats

• 5E (from BSCS, the BSCS 5E Instructional Model): Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate. Students explore an idea before it is explained to them, then apply it to something new.
• Madeline Hunter’s lesson design (Mastery Teaching): anticipatory set, objective and purpose, input, modelling, checking for understanding, guided practice, independent practice and closure.
• Gagné’s nine events of instruction (Robert M. Gagné, The Conditions of Learning): gain attention, inform learners of the objectives, stimulate recall of prior learning, present the content, provide learning guidance, elicit performance, provide feedback, assess performance, and enhance retention and transfer.
• Backward design (Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Understanding by Design): first the desired results (goals, understandings, essential questions, what students will know and be able to do), then the evidence that shows them (a performance task and other evidence), and only then the learning plan.
• NCF-SE 2023 (National Curriculum Framework for School Education, NCERT): the plan follows the framework’s chain from curricular goals to competencies to learning outcomes, lists the components of a teaching plan it names (outcomes and lesson objectives, activities that are teacher-directed, teacher-guided or student-led, prior understanding, content and material, duration and sequence, classroom arrangement, support for students who need extra help, methods of assessment), and uses its five-step Panchpadi sequence: Aditi (introduction), Bodh (conceptual understanding), Abhyas (practice), Prayog (application) and Prasar (expansion).

Writing objectives with the revised Bloom’s taxonomy

The objective builder follows the revised taxonomy of Lorin W. Anderson and David R. Krathwohl (A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing): six cognitive processes from Remember to Create, and four kinds of knowledge — factual, conceptual, procedural and metacognitive. Each process lists its verbs: first the cognitive processes the taxonomy names (for example recognise and recall under Remember, or differentiate, organise and attribute under Analyse), then common classroom verbs for the same kind of thinking.

A useful objective says who will do what, under which conditions and how well — “Students will be able to calculate the area of a triangle given its base and height, for three of four triangles.” Verbs such as understand, know or appreciate are hard to observe; the builder offers ones you can see or check.

Timing

Each phase has its minutes. The plan adds them up and compares the total with the length of the lesson, and shows each phase as “5–17 min” from the start, or as clock times when you type a start time. Fit the phases to the lesson length stretches or shrinks every phase in proportion so that they fill the lesson exactly.

Limitations

• Up to 12 objectives and 14 phases per plan.
• The curricular goals, competencies and learning outcomes of your syllabus are typed in by you; the tool does not contain the syllabus of any board.
• The plan is kept in this browser only; save it as a file to keep it, move it to another device or share it.
• The PDF prints Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese and Devanagari text; other scripts print as “?” there, so use the Word file or your browser’s Print for them.

Privacy

Your plan stays in your browser: it is kept in this browser’s storage so it is still there when you come back, and nothing is uploaded. Blank plan clears it.