The K-12 Lesson Plan Creation Agent Skill was co-developed with
Anthropic ↗.
Overview
The K-12 Lesson Plan Creation ↗ skill creates a lesson plan, student-facing materials, and an observation template. It produces teacher-ready, standards-aligned artifacts as native files in Turn 1, rendered from one master JSON via bundled scripts (editable.docx Word documents on confirmation). The skill works with or without the Learning Commons Knowledge Graph.
The skill considers:
- Subject routing with mandatory subject reference files
- Curriculum alignment when a curriculum is named or implied (e.g., IM® v.360)
- Grounding in standards when connected to Knowledge Graph
- Subject-specific pedagogy, grade-band structures, and output mappings
This skill works with or without Knowledge Graph, but we strongly recommend
connecting to it. See Quickstart: Connect Knowledge
Graph for
more information.
At a glance
Getting started
Follow the Quickstart to start using this skill:Triggers
Your LLM will programmatically load this skill when explicitly or implicitly prompted to build a K-12 lesson for a particular topic or standard from scratch:- Explicitly: “math lesson plan,” “mini-lesson,” “unit plan,” “reading lesson,” “phonics lesson”
- Implicitly: “I’m teaching long division to 5th graders,” “planning a lesson on RL.4.3 next week,” “need to teach photosynthesis tomorrow”
Output
Scoring
- Generate lesson materials using this skill.
- Select
shared.csvplus the subject-specific rubric that matches the lesson. - Run LLM-as-judge or human review against each criterion. See Evaluating outputs.