Periods, blocks and the week

High School Lesson Plan Templates

A period-based daily plan with a bell-ringer, an agenda in minutes and an exit ticket; a 90-minute block plan with the time column already marked and the work session split into rotations; and the weekly grid with seven period rows. Pick by your bell schedule.

By bell schedule

3 high school lesson plan templates

Portrait secondary daily plan with a bell-ringer box, a five-row agenda table in minutes, and exit ticket, homework and differentiation boxes

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Secondary Daily Lesson Plan — Word & Google Docs

Bell-ringer box, an agenda in minutes with what students are doing, an exit-ticket box, homework, differentiation and an absent-students line.

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Secondary Daily Lesson Plan — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Portrait 90-minute block lesson plan with a minutes column pre-filled from 0 to 90 beside six segments including two work-session rotations

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Block Schedule Lesson Plan (90 minutes) — Word & Google Docs

Minute marks already in the time column — 0–10, 10–30, and two work-session rotations — so a 90-minute block plans itself around the rotations.

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Block Schedule Lesson Plan (90 minutes) — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Landscape weekly lesson plan grid with seven class-period rows down the left and Monday to Friday columns, two boxes beneath for standards and notes

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Weekly Lesson Plan — Class Periods — Word & Google Docs

Seven period rows across Monday to Friday on one landscape page, with a standards box and a bump-to-next-week box underneath.

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Weekly Lesson Plan — Class Periods — fillable PDF

One page, landscape. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. Word files are editable .docx that open in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac; the Google Docs link makes a copy in your own Drive; the PDF has real form fields and prints as plain hairline boxes when blank. Free to use in as many classes as you like, no account, no watermark.

Why it is laid out this way

About the high school templates

High school planning is governed by the bell schedule more than by anything in a textbook on lesson design. A traditional 50-minute period and a 90-minute block need different plans, not the same plan with more rows: the block has room for a mini-lesson and two rotations of student work, and a plan that does not use that room becomes a lecture. The two daily sheets here are built for each schedule, and the weekly grid holds the week for either.

The objective box on the daily sheet is labelled on the board, in student language, because most high school observation rubrics now look for exactly that, and because a posted objective is the cheapest classroom management there is.

Questions teachers ask

High School lesson plans, answered

Which plan for an A/B block schedule?

The 90-minute block plan for the class itself, and the weekly grid with the days relabelled A and B if that is easier than Monday to Friday. The weekly grid's row labels are ordinary text in Word and Google Docs.

How do I plan a 90-minute block without lecturing for 90 minutes?

The block template's time column is the answer: ten minutes of warm-up, twenty of mini-lesson, two twenty-minute work-session rotations, fifteen of share and closure, five for the exit ticket. The structure exists so the lecture cannot expand to fill the room.

Do AP and dual-enrollment courses need a different plan?

Usually a longer agenda and a heavier materials line, not a different format. Where a college syllabus drives the course, the unit plan in this section holds the arc and the daily sheet holds the day.