Lesson Plan Generator
Build a printable lesson plan — a detailed single lesson, a weekly timetable grid, or a unit overview — with the sections you actually use.
Name | 2 | prompt text. The number is optional and sets how tall that section is relative to the others; the prompt is optional too.About this lesson plan generator
No two schools agree on what a lesson plan should contain. Some want objectives and success criteria stated separately, some want a starter-main-plenary structure, some want differentiation and assessment called out explicitly, and plenty of teachers just want a single page with room to write. Rather than impose one house style, this tool lets you set the sections and how much space each gets, then fills the page with them.
Sections are entered one per line as Name | 2 | prompt text. The number is a relative height — a main activity given 3 takes three times the space of an objective given 1 — and the prompt prints as small grey guidance under the heading, which is useful for trainees, cover teachers or anyone else picking up your template. Both the number and the prompt are optional, so a bare line like Homework works fine.
Two formats are grids rather than sections: a weekly timetable of periods against days, and the same thing organised by subject, both of which suit planning a week at a glance rather than one lesson in depth. The unit overview is a table for mapping a sequence of lessons with their objectives, activities and assessment down the page. Grid rows and columns are editable lists, so a four-day week, a six-period day or a split-subject timetable are all just a matter of editing the text.
Because a lesson plan is a one-page working document, the page is fixed rather than flowing: sections share the available height by weight, and if you add so many sections that they would be squeezed into unusable slivers, the tool tells you rather than printing something you cannot write in. Lined or blank ruling is your choice, with spacing in real millimetres so it prints at the size you set.
Everything is generated in your browser and your layout is saved locally, so the template you settle on is there next time rather than something you rebuild each term. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
How do I make one section bigger than the others?
Put a number after the name: Main activity | 3 makes that section three times the height of a section with no number (or with 1). Add a prompt after a second pipe if you want guidance text too.
Can I change the header fields?
Yes — the header is a comma-separated list, so replace it with whatever your school uses: key stage, set, TA support, room, exam board, anything.
What is the difference between the two weekly grids?
One puts periods down the side and days across, which suits a secondary timetable. The other puts subjects down the side, which suits primary teaching or anyone planning by subject rather than by period.
Why does it warn me about too many sections?
Because this is a one-page sheet with a fixed height. Past a certain number, sections become too shallow to write in, so the tool says so rather than printing a page of unusable slivers. Remove a section, reduce the page margin, or use landscape.
My borders or shading are not printing
Look for a "Background graphics" or "Print backgrounds" option in your print dialog and switch it on — some browsers strip them by default.