One page covers the week

Weekly Lesson Plan Templates

Two landscape grids, one for teachers who run the same course across several periods and one for a self-contained classroom that moves through subjects. Both put the five days across the top and leave a box for the week's standards and a box for what gets bumped to next week.

Periods or subjects

2 weekly lesson plan templates

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

Word Google Docs

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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PDF

Weekly Lesson Plan — Class Periods — fillable PDF

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

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Landscape weekly lesson plan grid with subject rows from morning meeting to specials and five weekday columns, standards and small-group boxes below

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Weekly Lesson Plan — Subjects — Word & Google Docs

Morning meeting, reading, writing, math, science, social studies and specials down the side, the five days across. For one teacher, one class.

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Weekly Lesson Plan — Subjects — 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 weekly lesson plan templates

Experienced teachers plan about a week ahead and no further. The weekly grid is the master: each cell holds the objective, the activity, the materials and the homework for one period or one subject on one day, in a phrase or two. When a day needs more than a phrase — an observation, a sub, something new — that cell expands into one of the daily sheets, which use the same field names so nothing has to be re-thought.

The periods version has seven rows, which covers most middle and high school schedules; block schedules leave rows empty, which is fine. The subjects version runs morning meeting to specials. In both, the standards box at the foot is where the week's codes go once, instead of being retyped in every cell.

If you would rather have the grid as a fillable PDF you build in the browser, the weekly lesson planner maker on the calendars side produces the periods-by-days sheet with your own period names typed in.

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Weekly Lesson Planner Maker

Type your own period names and download a fillable periods-by-days PDF.

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Questions teachers ask

Weekly Lesson Plan lesson plans, answered

Should I plan weekly or daily?

Weekly for yourself, daily when someone else needs to follow it. Veteran teachers overwhelmingly keep a one-week-ahead grid and write a full daily sheet only for observations, substitute days and lessons with new material. These two grids are built for the weekly habit; the daily templates in this section use the same labels so a cell can grow into a page.

Why landscape?

Five day columns plus a label column need the width. In portrait the cells get too narrow to write a phrase in, which is the single most common complaint about weekly planners. Landscape gives each cell about 1.7 inches, enough for an objective and an activity on two lines.

Can I change the period or subject names?

Yes, in all three formats. In Word and Google Docs they are ordinary table text. In the fillable PDF the row labels are printed, so if your rows differ, the Word or Docs version is the one to edit once and reuse.