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Claude drafts an outcome-evidence map, then a timed plan, from your pasted curriculum. You check both.
Get ready
Draft the map
Check the map
Draft timed plan
Check and finish
Use: You
The curriculum outcome, the forty-minute lesson duration and the prerequisites for distance-time graphs.
The curriculum text is the authority. Note what has actually been taught.
Use: Claude
Paste the curriculum outcome and notes. Ask for the observable outcome, success criteria, prerequisites and an evidence task.
What to paste into the tool
Task: Draft alignment table with outcome, success criteria, prerequisites and evidence task. Translate this curriculum outcome into observable evidence. Draft an alignment table: the observable outcome, success criteria a student could demonstrate, the prerequisites this assumes, and an exit evidence task that directly tests the outcome. Mark any assumption about prior teaching as an assumption.
Use: You
Check the intended depth and what you have actually taught. Correct the map and keep unresolved items.
Treat the map as a draft until you have checked both.
Use: Claude
Paste the corrected map and ask for a sequence of instruction, practice and exit task that fits forty minutes.
What to paste into the tool
Task: Draft timed lesson plan linking activities and an exit task to the observable outcome. Using only this corrected alignment table, draft a forty-minute lesson: sequenced instruction and practice, each activity tied to the outcome, with minutes per block, ending in the exit task. Keep unresolved items visible.
Use: You
Check the timing is realistic for your class and the exit task measures the outcome. Correct errors and keep unresolved items.
Every activity serves the outcome, the timing fits and the exit task directly tests the intended learning. Preparation only; do not submit learner work, publish material, alter official grades or make placement decisions automatically.
Gemini Notebook answers per-outcome questions with citations. You check them, then it drafts the timed plan.
Upload sources
Ask per outcome
Check citations
Draft timed plan
Check and finish
Use: You
The curriculum outcome, forty-minute duration, prerequisites for distance-time graphs, and your prior-teaching notes. Upload them as notebook sources.
Upload only the authoritative curriculum text. Notes record what was actually taught.
Use: Gemini Notebook
Ask grounded questions for each outcome about the observable evidence and prerequisites the sources support, with cited answers.
What to paste into the tool
Task: One cited chat answer per outcome question. Using only this notebook's sources, answer one question per curriculum outcome: what observable evidence would show it is met, and what prerequisites do the sources assume? Answer each question separately and mark anything the sources do not support as uncertain.
Use: You
Open each cited passage and check intended depth and what you have taught. Keep a checked per-outcome notes table as its own output.
Cited answers are evidence, not a checked map. Keep corrections and unresolved items.
Use: Gemini Notebook
Ask for the timed plan from your checked notes table and the notebook sources.
What to paste into the tool
Task: Draft timed lesson plan. Using my checked outcome-evidence notes plus the notebook sources, draft a timed forty-minute lesson plan that works back from the outcome. Keep unresolved items visible.
Use: You
Check the timing is realistic and the exit task measures the outcome. Correct errors and keep unresolved items.
Every activity serves the outcome, the timing fits and the exit task directly tests the intended learning. Preparation only; do not submit learner work, publish material, alter official grades or make placement decisions automatically.
You write the outcome map and the timed plan by hand. Gemini critiques each, and you decide what to change.
Write the map
Critique the map
Revise and write plan
Critique the plan
Check and finish
Use: You
Have ready: the curriculum outcome, the forty-minute lesson duration and the prerequisites for distance-time graphs. Write the map by hand.
Mark assumptions about prior teaching as your own.
Use: Gemini
Ask Gemini to flag unobservable outcomes, evidence tasks that do not measure the outcome and missed prerequisites.
What to paste into the tool
Task: Map critique notes: unobservable verbs, evidence tasks that do not measure the outcome, missed prerequisites. Critique this alignment table. Do not rewrite it. Flag success criteria that are not observable, any evidence task that does not directly measure the stated outcome, and prerequisites the map assumes but does not list.
Use: You
Check the intended depth and what you have taught, and revise the map. Then write the forty-minute sequence by hand.
Each activity and its minutes are your decision for the real class.
Use: Gemini
Ask Gemini to flag unrealistic timing, activities that do not serve the outcome and exit-task misalignment.
What to paste into the tool
Task: Plan critique notes: unrealistic blocks, activities not serving the outcome, exit-task misalignment. Critique this forty-minute plan. Do not rewrite it. Flag blocks whose timing looks unrealistic for the stated activities, any activity that does not serve the outcome, and any mismatch between the exit task and the outcome.
Use: You
Check the timing is realistic and the exit task measures the outcome. Correct errors and keep unresolved items.
The critique passes add findings only and their accuracy is unevidenced. A defect missed by both the teacher and the proposed critique may remain. Your final step corrects the actual artefact and retains unresolved issues.
Best when: You want both drafts from one pasted outcome
What it does: Claude drafts both; you check at two stages
Strong at: One chat carries the outcome into the timed plan
Limit: Outcome analysis, alignment and timing not officially confirmed
Free plan: Yes, limited (5-hour and weekly usage caps)
Best when: You want each answer traced to a curriculum page
What it does: Gemini Notebook answers with citations; you check them
Strong at: Keeps a checked notes table as its own output
Limit: Outcome analysis, alignment and timing not officially confirmed
Free plan: Yes, limited (notebook and source caps)
Best when: You want to author both artefacts yourself
What it does: You write; Gemini critiques alignment and timing
Strong at: Your own words, checked by a second reader
Limit: The AI critiques only; you do all the drafting
Free plan: Yes, limited
Before you paste into any AI tool, remove any confidential information. Put it back at the end.
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Teacher confirms intended depth and actual prior teaching after the first pass.
Teacher verifies realistic timing and that the exit task measures the outcome before the plan is final.
Corrections and unresolved items move between passes by hand; no integration is implied. Preparation only. The named human reviews the result; do not submit learner work, publish material, alter official grades or make placement decisions automatically.
Check the result against your original inputs. Approve it before sharing or acting.