Since the introduction of generative AI, I have been exploring, testing, and reviewing a wide variety of educational AI tools. A select few of these AI tools have particularly caught my attention especially given their huge potential to enhance teachers lesson planning and facilitate their administrative workflow.
In this post, I am sharing with you what I believe are some of the best AI tools for lesson planning. You can use these platforms to help you generate custom lesson plans, create instructional activities, and design interactive teaching resources.
Also, most of these tools provide access to a huge collection of AI generators that are especially designed to carry out instructional and administrative tasks from generating report card comments and feedback to creating worksheets and interactive slideshows.
That being said, and as I have always recommended, you should always review and edit AI generated content. AI, as we know now, makes mistakes and hallucinates and human oversight is mandated at all times. Needless to mention that AI generated content lacks voice and sounds hollow. Edit, add your voice and touch, and customize AI content before you use it in your instruction.
AI Lesson Plan Tools
Here are some of the best AI tools for generating lesson plans, creating in-class activities, and facilitating teachers’ administrative workflow:
1. Eduaide
Eduaide is a platform that offers teachers an AI-powered workspace where they can create educational materials, automate administrative tasks, and generate targeted feedback. Eduaide offers access to an extensive list of AI tools that includes over 150 tools that help teachers with things such as assessment, content creation, lesson planning, creating interactive activities, gamifying learning, teacher parent communication, educational resources management, and many more.
Eduaide’s AI tools are arranged into different categories including planning and instructional design, independent practice, cooperative learning, gamification, question generators and many more. Here are examples of some of the AI tools provided by Eduaide:
- Lesson Seed: Plan structured, comprehensive lessons aligned with specific objectives.
- Unit Plan: Create long-term instructional plans that build and reinforce knowledge progressively.
- Prior Knowledge + Scaffolding: Use methods to scaffold prior knowledge for engaging new material.
- Learning Objective + Success Criteria: Develop student-focused objectives with aligned success criteria.
- Engagement Activities: Design activities that spark curiosity and activate prior knowledge.
- Assessment Measures: Evaluate student mastery of course content with tailored assessments
Watch this video tutorial to learn more about Eduaide.
Brisk Teaching is another powerful AI tool for lesson planning. This is basically an AI Chrome extension that allows you to create engaging educational materials from online resources including YouTube videos and web content. You can also use it to grade students assignments, design presentations, create lesson plans and classroom activities and many more.
Brisk Teaching also offers various AI tools to help you create engaging activities to boost your lessons. These AI tools include:
- Tutor: You can use this activity to provide students with personalized coaching and guidance in any subject area they need support in.
- Hook: You can use this activity to spark curiosity and engage students by presenting them with intriguing, thought-provoking questions.
- Character Chat: You can use this activity to let students interact with historical figures or book characters, deepening their understanding of key concepts.
- Debate: You can use this activity to help students develop arguments backed by evidence, fostering critical thinking and persuasive communication skills.
- Inquiry: You can use this activity to encourage students to explore concepts and form hypotheses, promoting scientific thinking and discovery.
- Brainstorm: You can use this activity to inspire students to generate fresh ideas, perfect for collaborative projects and creative problem-solving.
- Real-world Math: You can use this activity to engage students in solving math word problems rooted in real-life scenarios, making math more practical and fun.
Watch this video tutorial to learn more about Brisk teaching.
3. Curipod
Curipod turns any document or presentation into an interactive lesson ready to use in your classroom. The process to generate a lesson is simple and easy. You can either type in the topic of your lesson and as add as much details as you can and let Curipod generate a lesson or you can upload a document or presentation and use it as a basis for your lesson.
Curipod provides you with a Reports tool that provides you with detailed insights about students performance. You can also go to Students tab under Reports and select a student then click on Generate insights and Curipod will instantly generate a report about that student’s performance, what they learned, where they need help, and provide suggestions for activities to help them improve their learning.
Watch this video tutorial to learn more about Curipod.
4. Almanack
Almanack is another excellent AI-powered platform that helps you with your lesson planning. You can use it to easily generate engaging lesson plans complete with different instructional resources including slides, videos, worksheets, rubrics, in-classroom activities and games, and many more.
Almanack offers an AI generator for almost any teaching task from creating worksheets and rubrics to generating feedback and report card comments. The process is simple and easy and all you have got to do is to select your course and lesson and let AI do the rest. Of course, you can always (and you should) edit and customize any AI-generated content before you use it with your students.
5. MagicSchool
MagicSchool offers teachers access to over 60 AI tools to help them with their instructional tasks. There are lesson plan generators, assessment creators, AI assistant, and many more. You can also use Raina a chatbot custom trained to cater to teachers and educators needs, it’s like ChatGPT but only for teachers and educators. Simply type in your prompt and Raina will provide you with helpful ideas and suggestions.
You can ask it to create full lesson plans, get help with generating interactive activities for your lessons, generate suggestions around teaching methods, and many more. Besides Raina, you can also use MagicSchool’ s numerous AI tools to help you with your instructional practice. These include:
- Rubric Generator: Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class in a table format.
- Choice Board (UDL): Create a choice board for a student assignment based on the principles of UDL.
- Lesson Plan: Generate a lesson plan for a topic or objective you’re teaching.
- Report Card Comments: Generate report card comments with a student’s strengths and areas for growth.
- Multiple Choice Quiz / Assessment: Create a multiple choice assessment, quiz, or test based on any topic, standard(s), or criteria!
- Worksheet Generator: Generate a worksheet based on any topic or text.
- YouTube Video Questions: Generate guiding questions aligned to a YouTube video.
Final thoughts
The lesson planning AI tools I shared above are some of the best titles you will find in this area. Besides helping you create engaging lesson plans at no time, they will also facilitate your workflow and enhance your overall teaching productivity. I invite you to try them out and share with us your feedback in our social media platforms.
