Skill last updated July 14, 2026
The K-12 Lesson Planning Agent Skill was co-developed with
Anthropic ↗. Overview
The K-12 Lesson Planning skill creates a lesson plan, student-facing materials, and an observation template for math, ELA, science, or social studies.
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 (math, ELA, science, social studies) with mandatory subject reference files
- Curriculum alignment when a teacher names or implies a curriculum (for example, Illustrative Mathematics or OpenSciEd)
- Standards grounding via Knowledge Graph when connected
- Subject-specific pedagogy, grade-band structures, and output mappings
Do not load this skill when the request is only for grading, a rubric,
assessment feedback, a quiz, or a standards lookup — answer those directly
without it.
At a glance
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| Workflow | Create a new standards-aligned lesson from scratch |
| Subjects | Math, ELA, science, social studies |
| Grades | K–12 |
| Knowledge Graph | Strongly recommended via Quickstart: Connect Knowledge Graph |
| Repository | skills/k12-lesson-planning/ ↗ |
Getting started
Follow the Quickstart to start using this skill:
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| Knowledge Graph MCP | Quickstart: Connect Knowledge Graph |
| Example prompts | example-prompts.md ↗ |
| Skill instructions | SKILL.md ↗ |
Triggers
Your LLM will programmatically load this skill when explicitly or implicitly prompted to build a K-12 lesson 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”
Core signal: teacher has a topic/standard + grade and needs new instructional content created.
Output
| Artifact | Description |
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| Teacher-facing lesson plan | Standards-aligned plan with subject-specific structure and teacher rationale notes |
| Student-facing materials | Materials appropriate for the lesson’s grade band and subject pedagogy |
| Observation template | Template for classroom observation aligned to the lesson structure |
| Rendered files | Editable .docx Word documents on confirmation |
Rubrics
The K-12 Lesson Planning skill’s outputs are scored by the folllowing rubrics ↗.
To generate lesson plans, apply the shared.csv rubric first, then layer in
the relevant subject-specific file to extend the criteria set.Example: For a 7th grade ELA lesson, you would score against shared.csv and ela.csv.
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| Subjects | Math, ELA, science, social studies (via subject-specific rubrics) |
| Repository | evals/k12-lesson-planning/rubrics/ ↗ |
| File | Description | GitHub |
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| shared.csv | Core criteria for all lesson plans | View in GitHub ↗ |
| math.csv | Math-specific pedagogy and discourse criteria | View in GitHub ↗ |
| ela.csv | ELA-specific criteria grounded in the science of reading | View in GitHub ↗ |
| science.csv | Science-specific inquiry and reasoning criteria | View in GitHub ↗ |
| social_studies.csv | Social studies sourcing and argumentation criteria | View in GitHub ↗ |
How to score
- Generate lesson materials using this skill.
- Select
shared.csv plus the subject-specific rubric that matches the lesson.
- Run LLM-as-judge or human review against each criterion. See Evaluating outputs.
See ATTRIBUTION.md ↗ in the repository for source credits.
Skill release history
| Date | Changed |
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| July 14, 2026 | First release, co-developed with Anthropic |
