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How To-Create a Lesson Plan

Published: July 26, 2016

HOW TO-Create a Lesson Plan

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Table of Contents

Overview............................................................................................................................................. 4

Logging In ............................................................................................................................................ 4

Setting Up Your Lesson Plan................................................................................................................... 5

Writing Your Lesson Plan ....................................................................................................................... 9

Recurring Lesson Plans .........................................................................................................................13

Copying and Pasting Lesson Plans ..........................................................................................................15

HOW TO: Create Lesson Plans

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Overview

The BuildYourOwnCurriculum Lesson Planning component is designed to leverage all of the effort

that has gone into creating your district’s curriculum. Assuming you have fully populated your

curriculum and added activities, lesson planning can now focus on scheduling what aspects of the

curriculum you are delivering when, what activities or attachments you are utilizing and finally any

information unique to the particular group of students you are working with this year. Any

information that you would like to carry over to the next year should, ideally, be documented

either in the curriculum itself or in an activity.

Logging In

1. Go to the administrative website.

a. admin.buildyourowncurriuclum.com

2. Choose your state and district from the dropdowns.

3. Enter your userID and password.

4. Click the grey button that says “login.”

a. If you have forgotten your password, click the "Forgot Your Password" link to

have it emailed to you

b. You may also contact a BYOC administrator in your district to have your password reset



Setting Up Your Lesson Plan

In order to create lesson plans you first need to create a class. If you do not know how to create a

class, please see the HOW TO-Add a Class training document.

1. Click on LESSON PLANS (name may change from district to district) in the navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen under the CLASSROOM menu item.

a. You can also click on your class name from the CLASSROOM - CLASSES menu item to create a lesson plan.



b. Then click on PLANS (this is the district abbreviation, may change from district to district) or ADD ENTRY

2. If you clicked on PLANS (or whichever name your district has chosen for the Lesson Plan abbreviation)

there are three different ways to view your lesson plans on this page. a. VIEW WEEK (default view): This option will show tabs for each day of the week.

Under each tab, the lesson plans for that day are listed by period/hour.

b. VIEW ALL PLANS: This option will give you a list of all your lesson plans sorted by date and time.

c. VIEW CALENDAR: This option shows you a calendar with the time of each lesson

plan blocked off. d. VIEW PLAN BOOK: This option will show all courses taught by the teacher in a

traditional teacher’s plan book type of view and entries can be dragged and dropped

between time slots and days. For more information on the Plan Book, please see the

HOW TO – Advanced Lesson Planning training document.



3. There are two ways you can add a lesson plan for your class. Click on the ADD LESSON PLAN button in the upper right hand corner of the screen, or click on ADD ENTRY under the specific date you'd like to add the lesson plan for.

4. Once on the Lesson Plan Details page, fill out all of the fields that are associated with your class in the available dropdowns.

a. Note: The district determines the template options. In this example, the teacher is going to specify the times for the lesson.



b. In this example, the district has setup a bell schedule that is being used to specify the periods for the lesson plan.

c. In this example, the district has setup blocks of time for the lesson plans, in which teachers can pick a specific block, such as 60 minutes for reading or 90 minutes for math, and so on. This is seen more often at the elementary level.



NOTE: The screen may have different fields based on what template you have chosen. For example, if you are at a school that has periods or hours there may be a dropdown to

select what period/hour your lesson is for.

NOTE: Steps 6-10 are setting the primary focus of the lesson plan, this will control what Learning Targets, Activities, and Attachments you are prompted with. Additionally, this

information is used in certain reports that BYOC supports.

5. Select the department your lesson plan belongs to in the DEPARTMENT DROPDOWN. 6. Select the course your lesson plan belongs to in the COURSE DROPDOWN.

7. Select the unit your lesson plan belongs to in the UNIT DROPDOWN.

8. Select the topic your lesson plan belongs to in the TOPIC DROPDOWN.

9. When you have filled in all the fields on this page click SAVE AND CONTINUE.

NOTE: These steps are only required the first time you create a lesson plan for a class. For each subsequent lesson plan within that class this information will be filled in

automatically and is adjustable.

Writing Your Lesson Plan

1. Once you click SAVE AND CONTINUE you will see any learning targets, activities, and

attachments that are tied to the course, unit, and topic of your lesson plan. You may also

see other fields your district has chosen to remind you of.

a. For example you may see vocabulary or key questions. 2. Select the learning targets, activities, and attachments that will be used during your lesson plan.

a. You can also create a new activity right from this screen.

3. Click SAVE AND CONTINUE.



4. If you would like to add additional Learning Targets from other areas of this course or even

from other courses into your lesson plan, click on the ADD ADDITIONAL CURRICULUM

CONTENT link.



5. Choose the department of the content you would like to add in the DEPARTMENT DROPDOWN.

6. Choose the course of the content you would like to add in the COURSE DROPDOWN. 7. Choose the unit of the content you would like to add in the UNIT DROPDOWN.

8. Choose the topic of the content you would like to add in the TOPIC DROPDOWN.

9. Select the learning targets that coincide with the content you would like to add in the LEARNING TARGETS BOX.

10. Select the activities that coincide with the content you would like to add in the ACTIVITIES box.

11. Select any attachments that coincide with the content you would like to add in the

ATTACHMENTS box. 12. Click SAVE AND CONTINUE.



13. Under the ADDITIONAL LESSON PLAN INFORMATION complete any district definable fields that may be present.

a. Fields with a red * beside them are required, the others just complete if it

applies to your lesson.

14. Choose the TYPE of attachment you are adding: FILE, WEB LINK or GOOGLE DRIVE.

Adding a FILE allows you to search your computer for a file to add as an attachment, i.e. a

Word document or PowerPoint. Adding a WEB LINK allows to you enter a web address to

add as an attachment, such as a YouTube video. Adding a file from GOOGLE DRIVE allows

you to browse your Google Drive items, just like browsing your computer, and link them

as an attachment (your district has to have enabled Google docs in order to have this

option).

15. If you are adding a FILE, click SELECT to choose the type of file you will be adding. If you

are adding a WEB LINK, type in the name of the web address to link out to.

16. Enter in the DISPLAY NAME for the attachment.

17. Optionally, you can add in a DESCRIPTION for the attachment.

18. Select to whom you would like your resource to be visible. The options for visibility

may vary from district to district. Common options are:

a. MY DISTRICT: This setting allows only educators and administration from your district to view your resource.

b. ALL EDUCATORS: This allows any educators from other BYOC district to view your resource. People who have access to your resource at this level are teachers from any BYOC district, teachers from your district, and administrators.



c. THE PUBLIC: This allows the resource to be viewed by anyone browsing your curriculum, including parents, students, other teachers, and administration.

19. When you are finished on this page, click SAVE at the bottom of the screen. 20. You have now successfully completed your lesson plan.

Recurring Lesson Plans

You can recur a lesson plan if you have a lesson plan that you use over and over again

throughout the year. For example, if you have a spelling test lesson that you do each

Friday you could recur this lesson to occur at the same day and time each week.

1. If you would like your plan to recur, click the RECCURENCE link at the top of the

screen.

2. When you click the RECCURENCE link, a new box will appear.

3. The SPECIFIC DAY AND TIME RECCURANCE tab allows you to specify at what dates and times you would like your lesson to repeat.



a. Example: This is the lesson you use on days when students are taking an exam.

4. The RECUR BY DAY tab allows you to have a lesson repeat multiple days in a row.

a. Example: The lesson will take multiple days to complete. 5. The RECUR BY WEEK tab allows you to have a lesson repeat the same day and time each week.

a. Example: You have a lesson for independent reading time that you do every Friday morning.

6. When you are finished, click RECUR.



Copying and Pasting Lesson Plans

In addition to recurring lessons, you can also copy and paste lesson plans. The difference between

copy/paste and recurring is if you make a change to a recurred lesson that change will be made

every place the lesson is used. If you make a change to a copy/paste lesson, the change will only be made in the lesson you made it in.

1. To do this, click COPY at the bottom of the lesson plan.

2. On the main lesson plan page, navigate to the date and time/period you would like to paste

the lesson plan to.

3. Click PASTE.

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