Plan units and lessons that build on each other, for the year you really have
A complete planning studio for teachers, heads of department and tutors in any curriculum: curriculum map, backward design, lesson sequences with spaced retrieval, short lesson plans, differentiation, review after assessment and AI help with a human check.
- A 14-sheet Curriculum and Unit Planner: term calendar of real lessons, outcomes register, long-term plan with fit checks, unit planner, lesson sequences with retrieval spacing flags, coverage matrix and dashboards
- A Lesson Time and Pacing Calculator for minutes per phase, lessons needed per outcome and catch-up scenarios when time runs short
- Five fillable forms, brand-ready unit and lesson plan templates, a department planning pack and 40 planning messages
- A worked example pack with a six-week science unit from outcomes to 18 lessons, 32 AI prompts with checks, a 5-page classroom print pack, a term calendar and a 37-task board
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How do I plan a unit of work and its lessons?
Start from the official outcomes, count the lessons you really have, then plan backwards: the big idea, the evidence of learning, then a lesson sequence with spaced retrieval, hinge questions and a flex lesson. The Unit and Lesson Planning Studio from Bodhih Training gives you the planner, canvas, templates and calculator for each step.
Want the full free guide first? Read How to Plan a Unit of Work and Its Lessons, Step by Step.
You already feel the problem. Here is what it is costing you.
The year runs out in March
The plan was built for timetabled lessons. Exams, closures, events and trips take weeks, and the last units get squeezed into worksheets and videos.
Lessons that do not add up to a unit
Each lesson is fine on its own, but the activities are not aimed at the same understanding, and the end-of-unit task shows it.
Planning from the textbook
The textbook's version of the curriculum drifts from the official outcomes, and competency or context-based questions catch students out.
Three lessons for one class
Mixed-ability, multilingual and large classes push teachers to write separate versions of every lesson, which nobody can sustain.
Starting from a blank page every September
Plans live on personal drives, nobody records what worked, and the department plans the same unit four times.
Picture the next few weeks with the kit open beside you.
Imagine opening the Curriculum and Unit Planner in August and seeing, term by term, the lessons you really have next to the lessons each unit needs, with every unit that will not fit flagged months before it matters.
As you plan your next unit on the backward-design canvas, you will notice how quickly the lessons fall into place once the big idea and the evidence are written down. The lesson sequence then tells you which earlier lesson each starter reviews, and whether the gap is useful.
When you plan tomorrow's lesson on one page, the desk card on your table keeps the structure in front of you: starter, explanation, worked examples, guided practice, hinge question, practice, exit check. The hinge question tells you, in a minute, who is ready to move on.
And after each assessment point, you will record what you found and what you changed, so next year starts from this year's best version. Whether you begin with the term calendar tonight or the canvas tomorrow morning, the first hour is mapped out for you.
20 files that do the work for you
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
The Unit and Lesson Planning Studio (e-book, PDF)
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Start here: unit and lesson planning map
Your first hour, a 'Brand it in five minutes' box, your first week, the whole job in ten steps with the file for each, and a 30/60/90 day plan.
Curriculum and Unit Planner
14-sheet workbook: settings, a term calendar of real lessons available, an outcomes register, a long-term plan with fit and flex checks, a unit planner, lesson sequences with retrieval spacing flags, a coverage matrix, a resource library, a differentiation and scaffold bank, a plan review log and three dashboards.
Lesson Time and Pacing Calculator
6-sheet calculator: minutes per phase in four lesson shapes, lessons needed per outcome with practice, retrieval and flex, catch-up scenarios when time runs short, and a summary with a chart.
Curriculum unpacking worksheet and backward-design unit canvas
Five-page fillable form: unpack the curriculum outcomes for one unit, then plan it backwards in three stages (desired results, evidence of learning, learning plan), with a sign-off.
One-page lesson plan
Two-page fillable plan: the whole lesson on one page (intention, success criteria, retrieval starter, explanation, worked example, guided practice, hinge question, independent practice, exit check), plus an after-the-lesson page.
Knowledge organiser template
Two-page fillable knowledge organiser: the unit's big idea, key facts, vocabulary with definitions, a diagram or model, common mistakes, and a self-quiz page for retrieval practice.
Lesson observation self-review
Two-page fillable self-review: rate your own lesson against the lesson structure and questioning, alone or with a trusted colleague, then choose one thing to work on.
Unit review and adaptation form
Three-page fillable form: what the assessment points showed, what to reteach now, what to change in the unit next year, and resources to keep, improve or retire.
Unit and lesson plan templates (brand-ready)
Five brand-ready templates in one file: a backward-design unit plan, a short lesson plan, a full lesson plan, a knowledge organiser with a tiered vocabulary list and self-quiz, and a cover-lesson plan.
Department planning pack: scheme of work handbook, meeting agendas and charter (brand-ready)
A scheme of work handbook template, 6 department planning meeting agendas with action tables, and a one-page department planning charter covering shared resources and AI-assisted material.
Planning message library (brand-ready)
40 ready-to-adapt messages in 7 groups: department planning requests, resource-sharing notes, cover-lesson instructions, curriculum-change notes to leaders, families and students (including a unit overview letter), private tutors, and data, AI and safeguarding reminders.
Worked example pack: a six-week science unit from outcomes to 18 lessons, plus maths and geography units
One Year 8 electricity unit planned from curriculum outcomes to an 18-lesson sequence, a full lesson plan and its review, plus worked Grade 6 ratio (CBSE) and Year 9 geography (Australia) units. Matches the sample rows in both workbooks.
AI prompt pack for unit and lesson planning
32 tool-agnostic prompts in 8 groups (curriculum, sequencing, backward design, lessons and explanations, questions and checks, differentiation, homework and review, checking AI output), each with what to paste in and what to check.
Lesson-structure decision card and planning mistakes
Thirteen 'if this, plan this' rows for choosing a lesson shape and acting on a hinge question, plus twenty planning mistakes and what to do instead.
Numbers that matter: planning KPI card
Fourteen planning numbers with a plain-words definition, the exact formula, where each lives in the workbooks and what to do if it moves.
Curriculum frameworks, safeguarding and AI in planning (October 2026)
Dated orientation on NCF-SE and CBSE, the England national curriculum review, US standards, Australian Curriculum v9, IB and Cambridge, safeguarding and student-data rules in six countries, official AI guidance and the human review rule.
Classroom planning print pack
Five printable pages: a lesson-structure desk card, a questioning-techniques card, a 'plan backwards' wall poster, A B C D show-me cards for hinge questions and six exit-ticket slips.
Term planning calendar
27 planning events across one 13-week term: planning day, mapping meeting, unit planning, weekly planning blocks, mid-unit and end-of-unit reviews, data meetings and the end-of-term review. Import into Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar and move the dates to your term.
Planning task board
37 set-up, unit planning, review and department tasks with list, owner, due day, priority and the kit file to use. Import into Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira.
Chapter by chapter
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
- Format
- PDF e-book + XLSX + fillable PDF + DOCX + printable PDF + ICS + CSV
- Files
- 20 files plus a one-click ZIP
- E-book
- 61 pages
- Works with
- Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Word, Google Docs, Acrobat Reader, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Trello, Asana, Notion
- Best for
- Classroom teachers, heads of department and private tutors in any curriculum
- Curricula
- Any: CBSE, ICSE, state boards, IB, Cambridge, national curriculum, Common Core, Australian Curriculum or your own
The Year That Ran Out in March
Why a careful plan still runs out in March, and the eight-step method from curriculum to lesson and back again.
Reading the Curriculum Like a Planner
Unpacking outcomes, standards and competencies (including NCF-SE 2023) with codes, verbs, prior knowledge and misconceptions.
The Long-Term Plan and the Lessons You Really Have
Counting the lessons you really have, fit checks and flex lessons, and sequencing for prerequisites, spacing and interleaving.
Backward Design: Start With the Evidence
Backward design credited to Wiggins and McTighe: enduring understandings, essential questions and evidence before activities.
The Unit Plan and the Knowledge Organiser
Learning intentions, success criteria, misconceptions, tiered vocabulary, knowledge organisers and spaced retrieval in the sequence.
The Lesson Plan You Will Actually Use
A seven-phase lesson built on Rosenshine's principles, cognitive load and dual coding in plain words, planned in fifteen minutes.
Questions, Checks and Hinge Points
Formative assessment, wait time, cold call, whole-class responses and hinge questions that diagnose misconceptions.
One Lesson for Every Learner
Scaffolds that fade, UDL 3.0, multilingual and large classes, and support plans, in one lesson for the whole room.
Practicals, Inquiry and Homework
Practical and inquiry lessons planned for learning with safety checks, and short homework that practises what was taught.
Planning Together and Improving Every Year
Department planning, shared resources with sources, the plan review log after assessment data, and reusing plans year to year.
AI in Planning, With a Human Check
Official AI guidance, where AI helps and where it must not decide, copyright, student data and the human review rule.
A Plan That Survives March
What a plan built for the real year looks like the following March.
Not just reading. Tools you will actually open again.
E-book
- The Unit and Lesson Planning Studio e-book: about 9,400 words, ten chapters, six diagrams, a planning year at a glance and a glossary
Start here
- 00-Start-Here-Unit-and-Lesson-Planning-Map: your first hour, Brand it in five minutes, your first week, the job in ten steps and a 30/60/90 day plan
Workbooks
- Curriculum and Unit Planner (14 sheets): settings, term calendar, outcomes register, long-term plan with fit and flex checks, unit planner, lesson sequence with retrieval spacing flags, coverage matrix, resource library, differentiation and scaffold bank (20 starter scaffolds), plan review log and three dashboards
- Lesson Time and Pacing Calculator (6 sheets): minutes per phase in four lesson shapes, lessons needed per outcome, catch-up scenarios and a summary chart
Fillable PDF forms
- Curriculum unpacking worksheet and backward-design unit canvas (5 pages)
- One-page lesson plan (2 pages, with an after-the-lesson page)
- Knowledge organiser template (2 pages, with a self-quiz)
- Lesson observation self-review (2 pages)
- Unit review and adaptation form (3 pages)
Word templates
- Unit and lesson plan templates (brand-ready): unit plan, short and full lesson plans, knowledge organiser and vocabulary list, cover-lesson plan
- Department planning pack (brand-ready): scheme of work handbook template, 6 planning meeting agendas and a one-page department planning charter
- Planning message library (40 messages, brand-ready), including a unit overview letter to families
- Worked example pack: a six-week Year 8 science unit from outcomes to 18 lessons and its review, plus Grade 6 maths and Year 9 geography units
- AI prompt pack for unit and lesson planning (32 prompts, each with what to paste in and what to check)
Cheat sheets
- Lesson-structure decision card (13 'if this, plan this' rows) and 20 planning mistakes to avoid
- Numbers that matter: planning KPI card (14 numbers with exact formulas)
- Curriculum frameworks, safeguarding and AI in planning, dated October 2026
Print pack
- Classroom planning print pack (5 pages): lesson-structure desk card, questioning-techniques card, 'plan backwards' wall poster, A B C D show-me cards and exit-ticket slips
Calendar and import
- Term planning calendar (27 events, ICS)
- Planning task board (37 tasks, CSV for Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira)
When you have worked through it, you will be able to…
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
- You will be able to unpack any curriculum's outcomes, standards or competencies into what students must know and do
- You will be able to map a year against the lessons you really have, with fit checks and flex lessons
- You will be able to plan a unit backwards from its big idea and evidence of learning
- You will be able to sequence lessons with spaced retrieval and well-placed assessment points
- You will be able to write short lesson plans built on evidence about how students learn
- You will be able to write hinge questions and use checks that reach every student
- You will be able to plan one lesson that works for a mixed-ability, multilingual or large class
- You will be able to review plans after assessment data, plan with colleagues and use AI with a human check
Know your starting point. Prove your progress.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
Lesson Design and Questioning Technique
Take the assessment →AssessAll assessmentInstructional Design Work Sample for Trainers, Instructional Designers and Subject-Matter Experts
Take the assessment →AssessAll assessmentAI Draft Supervision: Reviewing What the Machine Wrote
Take the assessment →JobularyHow a Jobulary development plan works
Make it a growth plan →A taste of Chapter 6
In 1998, Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam of King's College London published Inside the Black Box, a short booklet summarising their review of research on classroom assessment. Their argument, in our words: when teachers use evidence of what students understand during teaching, and adapt what they do next, learning improves. Assessment is not only what happens at the end. It is a constant loop of asking, seeing and adjusting. The Education Endowment Foundation's Teaching and Learning Toolkit rates feedback as high impact for very low cost, with an average of about six months' additional progress. Hattie's Visible Learning, published in 2009, also ranked feedback among the larger influences; read it alongside its critics, who point out that averaging effect sizes from very different studies can mislead. The common thread across all of them: find out what students are thinking, and act on it.
The honest comparison
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | A textbook chapter or a blank lesson plan template | The official outcomes with their codes, unpacked into verbs, knowledge and misconceptions |
| The year | Timetabled lessons | A term calendar of real lessons, fit checks and flex lessons |
| Units | A list of activities | Backward design: big idea, evidence, then lessons |
| Lessons | Three-page plans or a sticky note | A one-page plan with retrieval, worked examples, a hinge question and an exit check |
| Differentiation | Three versions of every lesson | One lesson with 20 scaffolds that fade, and UDL |
| After assessment | Move on regardless | A review log, reteach decisions and changes for next year |
| AI | Copy and paste | 32 prompts with checks, a human review rule and no student data |
Made for you if…
- Primary and secondary classroom teachers in any curriculum: CBSE, ICSE and state boards, IB, Cambridge, the national curriculum in England, Common Core and state standards, the Australian Curriculum
- New and early-career teachers who want a planning system that saves time
- Heads of department and curriculum leads building a shared scheme of work
- Form or homeroom tutors and teachers moving to a new subject or year group
- Private tutors planning one-to-one and small-group sessions that follow a school's sequence
- Teachers in large, mixed-ability or multilingual classes
Probably not for you if…
- Parents home-educating their own children (see The Homeschool Year System)
- Trainers designing adult corporate workshops (see The Workshop Design Studio)
- Anyone looking for assessment design, marking and report cards (see The Classroom Assessment and Report Card Kit) or a tutoring business set-up (see The Tutoring Business Kit)
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Start with the quick-start chapter, then the main spreadsheet or planner. Most buyers use something from the kit the same day.
Build a plan that bends instead of breaking
Open the Start-here map, follow the first hour and type this term's real calendar into the planner before the week is out. Whether you start with the term calendar tonight or your next unit's canvas tomorrow, you will have a plan built for the year you really have.
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The Unit and Lesson Planning Studio: FAQs
Read the free guideAlready bought? Resend my linkCan I use this with my students and colleagues?
Yes. Under the personal licence you can use the kit in your own teaching, with your students, and share the plans you make with colleagues in your own department. Whole-school, multi-site and trust licences are available via solutions@bodhih.com.
Does it work in my country and curriculum?
The planning method works in any curriculum, and the planner takes your own outcome codes and strands. The dated sheet covers named frameworks and safeguarding and data rules as at October 2026, but curricula and laws change and differ locally, so check the official documents, your school's policies and your safeguarding lead.
How do I plan a unit of work?
Unpack the official outcomes, check the lessons you really have, then plan backwards: write the big idea and essential question, place the assessment points and describe what secure looks like, and only then sequence the lessons with spaced retrieval and a flex lesson. The canvas and planner take you through each step.
What should a good lesson plan include?
A learning intention and success criteria, a retrieval starter on older material, an explanation in small steps with a visual, worked examples, guided practice with checks, a hinge question, independent practice and an exit check. The one-page plan and desk card hold this structure.
How do I differentiate without writing three lessons?
Keep one learning intention for everyone, choose one or two scaffolds that remove the main barrier and plan how they fade, and add a challenge that goes deeper rather than longer. The Differentiation Bank holds starter scaffolds tagged by need and UDL area.
Is it safe to use AI for lesson planning?
AI can draft resources, examples and quizzes, but a teacher must check every item for accuracy, age-appropriateness, bias and copyright before any student or parent sees it, and no student data goes into tools your school has not approved. The kit's prompt pack and department charter build this in.
Does the kit promise better grades or results?
No. It helps you plan, sequence, check and review teaching well. Results depend on many things beyond any plan, and nothing in the kit is a claim about grades, exam results or admissions.
Does it cover safeguarding?
The kit points to your school's safeguarding policy and designated safeguarding lead throughout, keeps student data out of the planner and AI tools, and uses student work only under your consent policy. It does not replace your school's policy or local law.
How can I measure my starting point?
If you want to measure your starting point, AssessAll offers related assessments sold separately: Lesson Design and Questioning Technique, Instructional Design Work Sample for Trainers, Instructional Designers and Subject-Matter Experts, and AI Draft Supervision: Reviewing What the Machine Wrote. They suit teachers who want feedback on lesson design, questioning and reviewing AI-drafted material.
How do I turn this into a development plan?
Use the kit's 30/60/90 day plan for your planning system. For a structured personal development plan around one teaching skill, such as hinge questions or retrieval starters, see how a Jobulary development plan works at jobulary.com.
How much does The Unit and Lesson Planning Studio cost?
₹999 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $29 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How do I get the files after paying?
Instantly. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. Download each file separately or everything in one ZIP.
What software do I need?
Any of the usual tools: Excel or Google Sheets for spreadsheets, Word or Google Docs for templates, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Xodo or GoodNotes for the fillable PDFs, and Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar for the calendar plan.
Can I get a refund?
Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Can my company buy this for a team?
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
