Blank Lesson Plan Templates - How to Make Your Own

Blank lesson plan templates help you quickly and easily4) Time
create a lesson.(How will the lesson take?)
You can take an idea for a lesson and transform it5) Education Standards Addressed
into a well planned activity when you place it in a(What part of the syllabus is being taught?)
template. The template prompts you to identify the6) Equipment
purpose of the lesson, the key points you want to(What things do you need to have on hand -
make, the core activities the students will do and theworksheets/posters/models/website addresses/glue
resources that you will need to have on hand.scissors/dictionaries/atlases/sports equipment etc)
Blank lesson plan templates help you assess a lesson.7) Key Points
If you include a notes section on your template it is(What key points do you want to the students to
easy to add you thoughts on the lesson. This will helpexplore in this lesson? These are the things that you
you next time you teach the activity. You may want towill focus on in the introduction, explore in the middle
note that brainstorming adjectives or plot lines wouldsection and revise in the summary. Another way to
have helped the students write their stories. You maythink about this is to ask, what do you want the
want to note that bringing extra glue and rulers forstudents to know at the end of this lesson?)
those students that don't have their own would have8) Introduction
helped the lesson go more smoothly.( What will you tell the students at the start of the
Blank lesson plan templates help you store your lessonlesson? Usually this is a summary of what the lesson
plans.will entail and then a clear explanation of the concept
Templates are a great way to store lesson plans. Ifor demonstration of the skill. It make sense to let your
you keep the size to an A4 page and place thestudents know what the purpose of the lesson is and
subject and lesson title clearly at the top it is very easywhat the key points that you will be exploring are.
to file them away. They can be dropped into subject9) Middle
folders in a filing cabinet or slipped into loose leaf(What will the students be doing? This is the body of
folders.the lesson. It is the activities that the students will be
Designing your own is easy. Here's how you makedoing. It could include completing a worksheet, designing
your own.a brochure, researching on a computer, or completing
Simply open a word document and add all or some ofa science experiment.
the features below.Here is an example of what you might write.
You can use bold font for titles and lines to end eachThe students will do the following: complete the maths
section.problem worksheet, write a draft of two math
If you are confident with the features of the wordproblems, ask another student to edit their math
program then use a table format. It will save space onproblem drafts, rewrite the math problems on A5
the page.cards.)
1) Subject10) Summary
(Identify the subject area. This could be Maths -(The summary is usually a revising of what has
Numeracy - Double Digit Addition or Science-happened in the lesson. Write in here any questions
Weather-The Precipitation Cycle)that you may want to ask the students at the end and
2) Objective/Goal/Overview/Purposeany points you want to revisit.)
(Identify exactly what the reason for the lesson is-11) Notes
what skill is being introduced or practiced? You might(After the lesson, write any thoughts you had here.)
write - introduce the Precipitation Cycle or revise theAs you use you blank lesson plan template, you will
Precipitation Cycle or use what we already knowprobably find that there are sections that you want to
about the Precipitation Cycle to predict what mightadd and others that you want to alter or delete. With a
happen in a number of scenarios.little tweaking, you will end up with a self-designed
3) Datetemplate that is tailored perfectly to your needs.