Planning a lesson in ten minutes

The difference between a useless plan and a good one is how much of your own classroom you put into the request.

A weak prompt: "lesson plan on photosynthesis". You get something generic enough to be worthless.

A working prompt names six things. The topic, narrowly. The class, including their real level rather than their nominal grade. The time you actually have. The board or syllabus you follow, because Federal, Punjab, Sindh, Cambridge and Aga Khan differ. What they already know. And what you lack, which in most Pakistani classrooms means no projector, one textbook between two children, and forty five students.

"Write a forty minute plan on photosynthesis for class 7 under the Punjab board. Forty five students, no projector, one whiteboard. They know that plants need water and sunlight but have not met chlorophyll. Include one activity that works with children sitting in fixed benches."

That answer is usable.

Then edit it as a teacher. Cut the section that assumes group work your room does not allow. Replace the example with one from your city. Check every fact you will state as fact, because a plausible wrong number in a lesson plan becomes forty children learning something false.

Three more things worth asking for separately, because they come out better alone than bundled: five questions to check understanding at the end, three ways to explain the same idea for children who did not get the first, and one homework task that takes fifteen minutes.