Unit Planner

Ten years into teaching, across different schools and different contexts, the expectation was always the same: plan everything yourself. There is no good reason for it. Somewhere right now, a thousand Year 3 teachers are each developing their own addition unit independently. The collective hours lost to that are staggering.

Primary teachers switch year levels too often to build a reliable bank of their own programs. And no primary teacher can be a genuine curriculum expert across every subject they are expected to teach. It is not realistic, and pretending otherwise just burns people out.

Good teaching starts with a good plan. You cannot differentiate, extend, or support learners without a solid base to work from. The Unit Planner gives you that base. What you do with it, how you adjust it for your students, your context, your school, is still your job. The tool just means you are not starting from nothing.

Sometimes you get handed a class, a subject you have not taught, and ten minutes to prepare. It happens. You are covering a Year 5/6 science class, they have been learning about the water cycle, and all that has been left for you is a vague note about evaporation.

That is what the resource generator is for. In five minutes you can have a word search and a comprehension piece on exactly that topic. It will not be your finest lesson. It will get the job done with minimum fuss.