Secondary teachers rarely need a lesson written for them. What eats your evenings is the making: the slides, the worksheet, the answer sheet, the video that's just the right length. Lesson Dino makes all of them from one topic, so you can spend your time on the teaching.
What you get for one lesson
- Nine lesson ideas for the topic, from a quick demonstration to a debate or a case study.
- A lesson plan with objectives, success criteria, key words and timed stages that point to the slides and worksheet tasks. Download it as Word or PDF.
- Videos: the best YouTube clips, the part of each one to play, what to watch for and what to ask afterwards.
- Slides in 80 designs or your school's own PowerPoint template, with photos and diagrams that carry their credits, and speaker notes. Present from Lesson Dino or download PowerPoint.
- A printable A4 worksheet with tasks at the right level and an answer sheet.
Written for older students
For secondary classes, Lesson Dino uses proper subject terms and explains them in a key words box. Slides carry less text and more structure. Worksheets can include tasks that build exam skills, such as:
- command word ladders and "decode the question" tasks
- mark-an-answer tasks, where students grade a sample answer
- case studies, "compare the options" and "make a recommendation" tasks
- PEEL paragraphs, Cornell notes and text annotation
- retrieval grids and calculations, with answers checked by code.
There are more than 100 kinds of worksheet task in all. Lesson Dino picks the ones that fit your subject and topic, and you can swap any of them.
Sources first
Before it writes anything, Lesson Dino looks the topic up: in Wikipedia, in learning sites for teenagers and, where it can find them, in your country's curriculum documents. It writes from what it finds and numbers every source, so you and your students can see where a fact comes from. If it can't find good sources, it tells you.
An example: Year 9 history, the causes of the First World War
You type "History, Year 9, causes of the First World War". You might get:
- ideas such as a "who's to blame?" diamond nine and a newspaper front page from 1914
- a 50-minute plan built around the idea you chose
- a short clip on the assassination in Sarajevo, with the minutes to play
- slides on militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism, with speaker notes
- a worksheet with a key words box, a cause and effect chain, a diamond nine and an answer sheet.
Change anything
Edit any slide or task in your browser. Ask the AI to change one slide, the whole deck or one worksheet task: "make this harder for my top set", "add a question about the alliance system". Earlier versions are kept, and every lesson is saved as a project for next year.
What to check before you teach
Check that the content matches your specification, check facts against the numbered sources, and make sure activities follow your school's policies. Our guide on how to check AI teaching materials has a quick checklist.
Questions teachers ask
Does it go up to sixth form?
Yes. Lesson Dino covers every age from early years to sixth form, and writes in more depth, with proper subject terms, for older students.
Can I use my school's PowerPoint template?
Yes. Upload your school's template once and the slides are built on it, with its own master slides, logo and theme. Your template stays private to you.
Does it know my exam board's specification?
Not word for word. It looks for your country's curriculum documents and builds the lesson on the sources it finds, but you should check that the content matches your specification.
Is it free?
Yes, while Lesson Dino is in beta. Join the beta with your email address and we will send you an invite.
