9 Lesson Plan Templates to Fit Your Teaching Style

As a starting teacher, you’ve probably switched between lesson plan templates a few times. What template is the best fit for your teaching, course, and grade? I went through hundreds of lesson plans for teachers on the internet to find the best downloadable lesson plan templates you can easily try out and save for future use.

In this blog post, you’ll find only blank lesson plan templates, perfect for adapting to your own lessons. To help you choose, I’ve included different types of lesson plan templates for classroom use, so there’s something for every teaching style and educational level. If you're looking for lesson ideas and inspiration, just start reading our blog.

Let's take a look at this collection of free lesson plan examples!

1. Universal lesson plan templates

This lesson plan template pdf is generic and isn't aimed at any particular type of teacher, trainer, instructor or activity.

All the information you have to enter into the lesson plan should help you to identify and organise the following;

• The lesson objective(s)
• Tasks and activities to undertake during the lesson or "what you are going to do during your lesson?"
• Materials and equipment required
• Useful references that you and/or your students can look up
• Homework relevant to the lesson content if that's the case

Most of the lesson plan templates are in pdf, but I found a lesson plan template in Word for you right here. Just download the Word lesson plan template and start typing.

Or, even better:

I've made another universal lesson plan format template you can use and fill in digitally. You can download and clear the digital lesson plan template every time you want to make a new one.

💡 Pro Tip! With BookWidgets you can create lesson templates like this yourself, and design interactive exercises or tests for your students. No time left? Don't worry, BookWidgets' tests are automatically graded!

Lesson plan templates by grade level

All the lesson plan templates are suited for all ages. It's what you put in that counts? Of course it's easier to find a lesson template that already fit the specific needs of students groups like preschool, elementary school, high school and college. Here you go:

• If you teach in kindergarten, these lesson plan templates for preschool will definitely help you out!
• I found a good lesson plan template for special education right here.
• Here you can find some good lesson plan templates for elementary school.
• You can find lesson plan templates for high school above. Most of the lesson templates in this post are for teaching high school students.
• And last, lesson plan templates for college students. If you didn't know, you know now: lesson plan templates for high school work for college students as well. In fact, teaching principles don't change when students get older. Keep that in mind, and you'll do fine! I suggest using the universal lesson plan template above.

2. Lesson plan template - Daily

When you teach different classes in different grades, you might like to have a daily lesson planner with you.

I found a page which just has some amazing daily lesson plan templates for every teacher. There's not much to it of course, but they come in different shapes. That's why I'm sure, you'll find your fit.

Check out this page on class-templates.com. This website is definitely one to keep close!

3. Lesson plan template - Weekly

This weekly planner might help you to get things ordered. The planner shows the days of the week and the hours of the day on one sheet. Just right for a quick overview and easy to consult when you are planning meetings.

I suggest you use some highlighters for each activity. It will give you a better overview.

4. Course planner templates

After you are done planning each separate lesson, it might come in handy to put them in a course planner. The course planner is meant to get a nice overview of your course and the different lessons in it.

Take a look at this course planner template. It's very basic, and that's exactly the point!

5. Unit lesson plan templates

I just showed you the course lesson planner. The unit lesson plan format does the same, but on a smaller scale. Every course has its own units or chapters. So how many lessons relate to that one unit? A unit lesson plan is a collection of all the lessons you teach in that unit.

Here's a lesson plan template that's a right fit for that purpose. You can also take a look at the free lesson plan templates on this website.

6. Lesson plan templates on Pinterest

Finally, there’s Pinterest. If you can’t find anything on the web, just head over there, and you’ll find what you’re looking for in just minutes. Type “lesson plan templates” in the search bar, and you’ll instantly get a wide variety of Pinterest lesson plan templates for teachers, with creative and inspiring examples from educators all over the world.

7. Online lesson planner

Common Curriculum is a free online lesson planner that allows you to align your lessons to CCSS and organize lessons by days, weeks, or months. It’s especially useful if you’re looking for lesson plan templates aligned with curriculum standards, helping you stay consistent and on track with required learning goals.

You can make your own reusable templates with common components such as "essential questions", "objectives", "resources", "homework", and so on.

The long-range planner allows you to create units containing individual lessons. You can even work on them together with your colleagues.

8. Excel lesson plan template

If you're looking for even more teacher lesson plan templates, you should check out this website, which offers lesson plan templates in Excel.

The lesson plan template has 6 main sections in it:

• Dashboard
• Attendance
• Daily Lesson Plan
• Weekly Lesson Plan
• Homework
• Exam Results

9. Lesson plan templates from Canva

Another useful resource for lesson plan templates is Canva. They offer a large variety of designs, from colorful and playful layouts to simple and professional ones. Their easy-to-edit lesson plan templates for teachers allow you to quickly adjust colors, fonts, text, images, and layouts to fit your unique teaching style. This is one of the many great Canva lesson plan templates.

Looking for more templates from Canva? Just visit their website, type "lesson plan template" in the search bar, and explore all the customizable options available.

👉 Looking for other types of templates for your classroom, like worksheets, presentations, or planners? Check out our blog post “25 Free and creative Canva templates for teachers to use in the classroom” for more inspiration.

Wrap up

There are plenty of great free lesson plan templates out there, and we hope one (or more!) will become your go-to. Tell us which one you prefer and how it helps you in your teaching. Let us know on Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram or join our Facebook teacher community. We can’t wait to see what works for you!

And if you’re looking for more teaching resources and ideas, stay tuned for future posts with even more inspiration!