Lesson planning
By Ryan Mwangi, founder · Last updated
Every lesson planning tool, template and guide on LessonSmith, in one list. The templates, prompts and guides are free to read and use.
The generators have a free demo: 10 lesson plans and 3 schemes of work, once, with no account and no card.
Tools that draft the plan
- AI lesson plan generator
Drafts a ten-section lesson plan for your curriculum, class and date. Two unedited sample plans, the prices and the demo terms.
- Scheme of work generator
Drafts a term week by week against your own term dates, with break and exam weeks as rows.
- Lesson plans by curriculum
One page for each of 11 curricula, from CBC/CBE in Kenya to Cambridge International, with what each system calls its planning documents.
Free things to copy and download
- Lesson plan template
A blank daily template and a weekly one, as Word files and as text. No sign-up.
- ChatGPT prompts for lesson plans
Nine prompts that write a plan, fix one and check it, for any AI chat.
Guides
- How to write a lesson plan
The ten parts and the order to write them in, with a 40-minute Grade 7 lesson on adding fractions worked in full.
- What is a scheme of work?
What the document is, its columns, example rows, and what 11 school systems call it.
Comparisons
- Best AI lesson plan generators
Seven tools compared on free use and price, each read on its own page in November 2026, and which teacher each one suits.
- MagicSchool alternatives
MagicSchool, LessonSmith, Eduaide, Brisk and Kuraplan on price, curricula, languages and privacy.