Lesson plan from a standard

When to use this

You’re staring at a curriculum map at 9pm with a standard you have to teach tomorrow. You don’t need a beautifully designed Canva slide — you need a lesson with a clear arc, a do-now you can write on the board, and an exit ticket that tells you whether they got it.

This prompt gets you 80% of the way to a usable lesson in under five minutes. You still write the worked example and pick the texts; AI handles the structure.

When NOT to use this

If you teach a tightly-scripted curriculum (like Wit & Wisdom or Eureka), this is overkill — your scope and sequence already does this work for you. Use it for the off-cycle lessons: review days, the unit you’re building from scratch, the sub plans you forgot to write.

Don’t use it for IEP-mandated lessons without verifying every accommodation against the actual IEP. AI will guess; the IEP is the law.

Authoring notes

• The 9-section format is rigid on purpose. AI tends to over-produce open-ended sections; the structure forces it into chunks you can teach.
• “Be concrete” at the end is doing real work — without it you get phrases like “facilitate a discussion” instead of “ask: ‘What did Jonas notice that he didn’t notice before?’”
• For grades K-2, manually shorten — a 45-min lesson is too long for kindergarten attention spans.