Lesson planning is an important part of being a teacher, but that doesn't mean it should be difficult or time-consuming. It doesn't matter if you're a first-year teacher or you have been teaching for decades. You deserve to be able to create engaging, educational lesson plans without having to stay late or lose your weekends hunting down worksheets for your lesson plans.

Here at edHelper, we consistently develop resources to enhance the curriculum and help teachers save time. Our latest creation is Lesson Plan Power-Ups!

EdHelper's Lesson Plan Power-Ups are comprised of specially selected worksheets that you can use in the classroom. Resources are updated every week according to the week of the school year for the grade level you select, ensuring that the worksheets align with the current ability level of your students.

You can also choose Lesson Plan Power-Ups according to category. There is a general category called "Featured This Week" that includes a variety of worksheets. You can also choose from categories that include:

• Math
• Reading and Writing
• Puzzles
• Themes and Fun Worksheets

You can come back week after week! Just type in the week, grade level, and category, and edHelper will provide you with worksheets that you can add to your teacher toolkit for the week!

Lesson Plan Power-Ups make lesson planning easier because they provide you with grade-level-appropriate resources without having to manually search for skills and comb through worksheets to find the ones that are appropriate for your classroom. Worksheets pop up automatically according to grade level and the week you request. They can be incorporated into daily lessons, used as review ahead of a test, completed as an early finisher activity, or given as homework-all without the need to hunt down worksheets on your own.

Our Lesson Plan Power-Ups are an excellent resource for discovering new materials that you might not find if you have to search for worksheets by topic or skill. You will uncover new activities, strategies, games, and more that you can add to your lesson plans, expanding your knowledge and keeping your students engaged with unique activities.

Lesson Plan Power-Ups are a special resource we provide to subscribing members of edHelper.com. We offer individual subscriptions and school-wide subscriptions. We also offer gift subscriptions, and we have discounts when you purchase a longer license.

Lesson Plan Power-Ups are our latest resource to help teachers make lesson planning easier, but they are far from the only way to save time on lesson plans.

Here are a few additional ideas and edHelper resources that will help you save time on lesson planning.

Using workbooks can save you a lot of time on lesson planning because they contain multiple pages. Students can work through the workbook at their own pace, or you can select which pages they complete depending on what they are currently learning in class.

• Math Workbooks
• Mental Math Workbooks
• Reading Comprehension Workbooks
• Spelling Workbooks
• Puzzle Workbooks

Worried that workbooks aren't engaging, or worse, that they aren't effective?

There are many benefits of having students complete math workbooks, like building confidence and the ability to fill in gaps in instruction for students who need more practice.

They can be fun too! You just have to be a little creative when using worksheets in your classroom. For example, you could have a snowball fight with crumpled worksheets. Then, students complete the worksheet they catch. You could create a worksheet scavenger hunt where students find the answers that are posted in different places around the room, or you could ask them to complete the worksheet with anything but a pencil.

You can save a lot of time on lesson planning when you follow the same structure and routine for each subject. For example, having a math problem of the day is the perfect transition activity. It gives students a chance to mentally end one activity and get ready for the upcoming math lesson. It also gives you the opportunity to create a pack of daily problems that you can pull from so you always know what the beginning of your math lesson looks like. It becomes a built-in part of lesson planning that only takes seconds.

You can do something similar in other subjects. You can incorporate daily reading comprehension activities or a daily writing prompt into each language arts lesson. If you're looking for a calm, quiet way to start or end the day, consider daily skills practice that can include everything from math to reading, science, and social studies.

EdHelper is the perfect example of an online teaching resource that can make lesson planning a breeze. The edHelper website has a massive database of searchable worksheets that you can find for any grade level that covers a complete range of skills that students need to know, as well as fun puzzle worksheets to support critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Your students can even practice various skills by grade level with fun online games! Not only can these games be played at school, making them a quick and easy activity for a math station, but they're also simple for students to play at home.
EdHelper isn't the only online teaching resource that can make lesson planning easier. Here are a few other online teaching resources you can check out:

Edutopia.org has a database of worksheets along with dedicated resources for blended learning strategies that feature case studies from real teachers.
Newsela.com features timely content according to different reading levels along with materials that are specifically created to align with Common Core standards.
Baamboozle.com is the perfect place to go if you're looking for a database of over 750,000 games made by actual teachers that you can play with your students.
Teacherspayteachers.com is a great place where you can spend just a few dollars to pay for lesson plans and activities that were created by other teachers. You can even upload your own lessons for a little extra cash![LINKEND:]

Using an AI platform like ChatGPT can be a great way to reduce the time it takes to create lesson plans in any subject. It can help you do things like:

• Write a lesson plan on a specific topic
• Create engaging discussion questions
• Come up with word problems and their corresponding answers
• Create quizzes and test questions
• Generate writing prompts

ChatGPT can also be used in your lesson plans with students. It can provide students with preliminary feedback on a writing assignment, which saves you the time of having to provide in-depth feedback to every student in your class. They can ask ChatGPT questions, use it to brainstorm ideas, and they can even correct and improve AI-generated writing.

Lesson planning can be time-consuming, but it doesn't have to be when you have edHelper on your side! Whether you use our Weekly Lesson Plan Power-Ups, download workbooks, or use our problem of the day worksheets, you can reduce the time you spend lesson planning and increase learning and engagement in your classroom at the same time!