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Lesson Plan Generator

Example prompt: "I need a 60-minute Year 8 science lesson on photosynthesis. Generate a full lesson plan with learning objectives, a starter activity, the main teaching sequence, differentiation for SEN students, a plenary, and homework. Save it to my Google Drive."

How to automate lesson planning with GloriaMundo

The Problem

Planning a single lesson properly takes between 30 minutes and an hour if you do it well. You need learning objectives tied to the curriculum, a starter that hooks the class, a main activity with clear instructions, differentiation for students working above and below the target level, a plenary to check understanding, and homework that reinforces without overloading. Teachers planning three to five lessons a day, across multiple subjects or year groups, end up either reusing the same materials for years or cutting corners on the parts pupils need most — usually the differentiation and the plenary. Either way, the lesson quality and the teacher's evenings both suffer.

How GloriaMundo Solves It

We build a workflow that takes a topic, year group, lesson duration, and any specific constraints (e.g. no practical equipment available, mixed-ability group, ties to a particular exam specification). An LLM step drafts the lesson plan using the standard structure — learning objectives linked to the national curriculum, a starter activity, the main teaching sequence broken into timed segments, differentiation suggestions for higher and lower attainers, a plenary question, and homework. A sub-agent can optionally search the web for relevant diagrams, short videos, or worked examples to embed as resources. An integration step saves the completed plan to your Google Drive or Notion, in a standard template that matches your school's lesson plan format. Glass Box preview shows you the full plan before it is saved, so you can tweak activities, swap out resources, or adjust timings before committing it to your scheme of work.

Example Workflow Steps

  1. Trigger (manual): You specify the topic, year group, duration, and any constraints.
  2. Step 1 (llm): Draft learning objectives tied to curriculum standards for the specified year group.
  3. Step 2 (llm): Build the lesson plan — starter, main activity with timings, differentiation for higher and lower attainers, plenary, and homework.
  4. Step 3 (sub_agent): Optionally research supporting resources — diagrams, short videos, or worked examples — relevant to the topic.
  5. Step 4 (integration): Save the completed lesson plan as a Google Doc in your lesson plans folder, formatted to your school's template.

Integrations Used

  • Google Drive — destination for the saved lesson plan document
  • Google Docs — renders the plan in your standard lesson template

Who This Is For

Classroom teachers, heads of department, and teaching assistants who need to plan lessons regularly and want a consistent, high-quality starting draft to edit rather than building each plan from a blank page. Particularly useful for trainee teachers and those covering a new subject outside their main specialism.

Time & Cost Saved

Writing a thorough lesson plan from scratch takes 30–60 minutes per lesson. This workflow produces a detailed draft in a couple of minutes; the review and personalisation step typically takes 10–15 minutes. Over a typical 5-lesson teaching day, that saves around 1.5–3 hours. The workflow uses LLM, sub-agent, and integration steps, costing a few credits per plan generated.