Generate a single-class-period lesson plan in under two minutes — using the method your subject actually uses (5E for science, Workshop for ELA, Launch-Explore-Discuss for math, IDM for social studies, CLT for world languages, Gradual Release as fallback). Free for K-12 teachers.
The tool auto-suggests based on your subject: 5E for science (recommended by NSTA/NGSS), Reading/Writing Workshop for ELA/literacy (TCRWP), Launch–Explore–Discuss for math (NCTM), Inquiry Design Model for social studies (NCSS C3), Communicative Language Teaching for world languages (ACTFL), and Gradual Release as fallback for skill/procedure lessons. You can override anytime — the picker shows a description of each method to help you choose.
Because the standards bodies for each subject explicitly recommend different structures. NSTA warns that jamming science into I Do / We Do / You Do violates NGSS three-dimensional learning (students need to make sense of phenomena BEFORE the teacher explains). ACTFL requires ≥90% target-language use for world languages, which I Do / We Do / You Do undercuts. NCTM's Effective Mathematics Teaching Practices are task-first — students explore before the teacher shows a strategy. Workshop's whole innovation is teacher conferring during independent practice, which the gradual-release template erases. Gradual Release still works for procedure days and skill drill; the tool keeps it as an explicit option.
5E and Inquiry Design Model naturally span multiple class periods per their standards bodies. When you pick one of those, the tool generates a single-day slice — typically 2-3 adjacent phases from the full arc — with a note explaining which phases this lesson covers and where it sits in the larger sequence. To plan the whole unit at once, use the Unit Planner instead.
Yes — upload PDFs, DOCX, or paste text. The AI reads your materials and grounds the lesson in what students have actually read. Source content is treated as data, never as instructions (so injection prompts in an uploaded doc can't hijack the output).
The Unit Planner is for full backward-design (Wiggins & McTighe's Understanding by Design) across multiple lessons — desired results, evidence, learning plan. The Lesson Planner is for tomorrow's class, right now — one class period, subject-appropriate structure, in under two minutes. If you've started a Unit in the Unit Planner, the Lesson Planner picks up context automatically.