Lesson plan template
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What it is
A lesson plan a teacher fills in on the page, with two made-up samples: a Grade 5 science lesson on the water cycle and a Grade 8 English lesson on thesis statements. The heading takes the subject, grade, teacher, date and class period. Below sit the standards, the objectives (students will be able to…), a materials list to tick off as things are ready, and the lesson sequence: each step has its minutes, what the teacher does and what students do, a start time, and buttons to reorder it. A colored bar and a badge show whether the steps fill the period, run over or leave time to spare. Vocabulary, differentiation for support and extension, assessment, homework and a reflection for after the lesson finish it. Plans are saved in the browser; keep several, start a new one from the usual five steps or duplicate one. Print gives a clean page, and Copy link puts the plan itself in the link, so whoever opens it gets their own copy.
Who it's for
Teachers writing daily lesson plans, student teachers handing plans to a mentor, and substitutes who need the plan at a link instead of on a desk.
What you can change
You ask in plain words. These are the kind of changes people ask their AI for:
- “Make the blank plan follow my school's format: add an anticipatory set and a check for understanding.”
- “Turn it into a weekly lesson plan, Monday to Friday, one column a day.”
- “Add a dropdown of the Common Core standards I teach most.”
- “Put my school's name and colors at the top of the printed page.”
How to make it yours
- Remix it. A copy lands in your library as a site of your own, at its own link. If you have no account yet, you are asked to make one, and the copy is made when you come back.
- Change it in Claude or ChatGPT. Add the Solta connector once, then ask for the change in plain words, for example: “In my Lesson plan, add an anticipatory set and a check for understanding to every new plan.” It reads the site's code, makes the change and saves it as a draft. The link keeps showing the old version until you publish.
- Publish. Ask it to publish, or publish from the site in your library. The new version goes live at the same link, so nobody needs a new one.
Questions
How does Copy link share a plan?
It compresses the open plan into the part of the address after #plan=, which browsers do not send to any server. Whoever opens the link gets a copy saved in their own browser and can change it without touching yours. The reflection stays out of the link. A very long plan makes a long link; Copy text works anywhere.
Where are my plans saved?
In the browser's storage on the device you use, under lesson-plan:v1. Nothing is sent to Solta or anyone else, so a school laptop and a home laptop each keep their own plans. Send yourself a link to move one across.
Related
- Sharing a siteThe link to send, the one to get feedback on, a QR code to scan, and a frame for your website.
- Saving dataWhere what a site saves is kept: the visitor's browser, each visitor's on Solta, or shared by everyone.
- Who can open itPublic, unlisted, password, invited, team, private — said in terms of what actually happens.
Or start from what you already have
Paste the file your AI made, or publish it from the chat, and get a link of its own.