AI-Enhanced Lesson Design

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Foundations

Start here — no AI needed yet. You know your students best.

💛 This first section is all about you and your students. Take your time — the more you capture here, the smarter your AI-generated options will be later.

Grade Level

Content Area / Subject

Topic

Duration (days/periods)

Standards Addressed

List the specific standards this lesson targets

Enduring Understanding

What big idea should students carry with them long after this lesson? Write as a full sentence.

Essential Question

Open-ended, thought-provoking, debatable — should raise more questions than it answers.

Student Context

Prior knowledge

Common misconceptions

Learning variability

Reading levels, language needs, accessibility considerations

Progress is saved automatically

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Assessment Design

Plan your assessment before activities — this shapes everything.

💡 Great news — you can ask the AI to help you brainstorm your transfer task! Just fill in the basics above first, then use the assistant below.

Transfer Task / Performance Assessment

Describe a performance task that asks students to apply understanding to a new context.

AI Brainstorm Partner

Ideas will appear here — they’re starting points, not prescriptions. You know your students best!

Process Documentation Requirements

Which AI-proof elements must students document to show their thinking?

Initial ideas & hypotheses

Students write what they think before they start exploring

Questions asked — to AI, peers, teacher, sources

Capturing AI conversations shows metacognition, not just output

Moments of confusion or misconception

Productive struggle is evidence of real learning

How their thinking changed and why

Tracks genuine conceptual growth over time

Evidence evaluation

Which sources or AI responses were most helpful, and why?

Metacognitive reflection

Students reflect on how they learned, not just what

Thinking Routines to Embed

These Project Zero routines scaffold student thinking throughout the unit.

See–Think–Wonder

Great for launching with an artifact, image, or video — sparks curiosity

Think–Puzzle–Explore

What do you think you know? What puzzles you? How will you explore?

Claim–Support–Question

Builds argumentation skills and evidence-based reasoning

I Used to Think… Now I Think

Surfaces conceptual change — ideal for end of unit reflection

Rubric / Success Criteria

How will you evaluate both product AND process?

AI Rubric Helper

Click above and I’ll draft a rubric based on your transfer task and documentation requirements.

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Learning Sequence

Now let AI help you generate options — you choose what fits.

🎯 Use the AI below to generate a day-by-day sequence — then edit each day to match your class. Think of it as a strong first draft.

UDL Considerations

Universal Design for Learning — how will you ensure all students can access and demonstrate learning?

Multiple Means of Engagement

Multiple Means of Representation

Multiple Means of Action & Expression

Day-by-Day Sequence

Build your sequence one day at a time. You can add or remove days as needed.

AI Sequence Generator

Click above to get a suggested day-by-day sequence based on your topic, enduring understanding, and duration. You’ll be able to edit everything.

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AI Integration Plan

Be intentional about when, why, and how students use AI.

🔑 The sentence starters below are your students’ toolkit. Use them as prompts in class — you can copy and paste them directly into a handout or slide.

When will students use AI?

Check all that apply — the more specific you are, the more intentional student use will be.

Research

Finding background information and exploring the topic

Brainstorming

Generating initial ideas they’ll then evaluate and develop

Clarifying concepts

Asking for explanations using analogies, examples, or simpler language

Checking work

Requesting feedback on drafts — students must then revise and explain changes

Exploring counterarguments

Stress-testing their own claims and finding evidence that challenges them

Tutoring & practice

Students use AI as an on-demand tutor for step-by-step guidance

Sentence Starters for Productive Prompts

Click any starter to add it to your plan — or write your own below.

Your selected / custom starters:

AI Documentation Requirement for Students

How will students record their AI conversations? (e.g. screenshot, paste into doc, annotate with reflections)

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Your Lesson Plan is Ready

Review, export, or start fresh with another lesson.

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