Inside a lesson
Everything behind one day, already made.
Two halves, and you can take either one. The paper — study sheets, an extra-credit set, exit slips — is ready to print and hand to a student who needs more of today. The plan behind it — the essential question, the skills, the vocabulary, the teaching notes — is there to read for an idea when you are framing your own lesson, and to ignore when you are not.
What comes with one lesson
- Essential question — the one thing the period is actually about, written for a student to read.
- Key skills — three or four, concrete enough to check.
- Study sheet, and a second study sheet — the student-facing work, with vocabulary.
- Extra credit — for the student who finishes early, and for the one who wants more.
- Visualizer — the diagram or model the lesson leans on.
- Exit slips — the quick check at the end of the period.
- Lesson plan — the period, timed.
- Teaching notes — what to watch for, and where it usually goes wrong.
The week around it
Individual lessons are not the unit of planning — the week is. Week in Review opens with a teaching note that says what the week is doing across every subject at once, so the through-line is visible before you teach any single period of it.
Videos for the week are listed by title. On student-facing pages they stay titles rather than links, deliberately: a live search box on a shared device is a safeguarding problem, not a convenience.
