Blank lesson plan templates help you quickly and easily create a lesson.
You can take an idea for a lesson and transform it into a well planned activity when you place it in a template. The template prompts you to identify the purpose of the lesson, the key points you want to make, the core activities the students will do and the resources that you will need to have on hand.

Blank lesson plan templates help you assess a lesson.
If you include a notes section on your template it is easy to add you thoughts on the lesson. This will help you next time you teach the activity. You may want to note that brainstorming adjectives or plot lines would have helped the students write their stories. You may want to note that bringing extra glue and rulers for those students that don't have their own would have helped the lesson go more smoothly.

Blank lesson plan templates help you store your lesson plans.
Templates are a great way to store lesson plans. If you keep the size to an A4 page and place the subject and lesson title clearly at the top it is very easy to file them away. They can be dropped into subject folders in a filing cabinet or slipped into loose leaf folders.

Designing your own is easy. Here's how you make your own.

Simply open a word document and add all or some of the features below.
You can use bold font for titles and lines to end each section.
If you are confident with the features of the word program then use a table format. It will save space on the page.

1) Subject
(Identify the subject area. This could be Maths - Numeracy - Double Digit Addition or Science- Weather-The Precipitation Cycle)

2) Objective/Goal/Overview/Purpose
(Identify exactly what the reason for the lesson is- what skill is being introduced or practiced? You might write - introduce the Precipitation Cycle or revise the Precipitation Cycle or use what we already know about the Precipitation Cycle to predict what might happen in a number of scenarios.

3) Date

4) Time
(How will the lesson take?)

5) Education Standards Addressed
(What part of the syllabus is being taught?)

6) Equipment
(What things do you need to have on hand - worksheets/posters/models/website addresses/glue/scissors/dictionaries/atlases/sports equipment etc)

7) Key Points
(What key points do you want to the students to explore in this lesson? These are the things that you will focus on in the introduction, explore in the middle section and revise in the summary. Another way to think about this is to ask, what do you want the students to know at the end of this lesson?)

8) Introduction
( What will you tell the students at the start of the lesson? Usually this is a summary of what the lesson will entail and then a clear explanation of the concept or demonstration of the skill. It make sense to let your students know what the purpose of the lesson is and what the key points that you will be exploring are.

9) Middle
(What will the students be doing? This is the body of the lesson. It is the activities that the students will be doing. It could include completing a worksheet, designing a brochure, researching on a computer, or completing a science experiment.
Here is an example of what you might write.
The students will do the following: complete the maths problem worksheet, write a draft of two math problems, ask another student to edit their math problem drafts, rewrite the math problems on A5 cards.)

10) Summary
(The summary is usually a revising of what has happened in the lesson. Write in here any questions that you may want to ask the students at the end and any points you want to revisit.)

11) Notes
(After the lesson, write any thoughts you had here.)

As you use you blank lesson plan template, you will probably find that there are sections that you want to add and others that you want to alter or delete. With a little tweaking, you will end up with a self-designed template that is tailored perfectly to your needs.

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