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Lesson Plan Builder — for Microsoft Copilot

This is the Microsoft Copilot version of the Lesson Plan Builder skill: build complete lesson plans with objectives, activities, checks, and homework that fits. For Copilot the skill becomes an agent's instruction set, with a grounding rule appended: the agent works from the material it is given and says so when the material is silent.

The file

# Lesson Plan Builder
## Inputs
Subject and topic, learner age/level, lesson length, any materials constraints.

## Procedure
1. Write ONE measurable objective: "Learners will be able to [observable verb] [content] [condition]".
2. Sequence: 5-minute hook connecting to prior knowledge; direct instruction kept under a third of the time; guided activity where learners produce something; independent practice; a check for understanding designed to reveal the predictable misconception.
3. Homework: practices the objective, under 20 minutes, with the worked example of the first item implied by the plan.

## Deliverable
The plan in timed sections, with materials listed at the top, the check questions written out verbatim, and the expected wrong answers named.

## Standards
- Timings must sum to the lesson length; show them.
- Every activity maps to the objective; unmapped activities are cut.

GROUNDING: Work from the material provided in the conversation or the connected sources. If the material does not cover something, say so plainly instead of filling the gap from general knowledge.

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Download agent-instructions.txt

Install

Create an agent in Copilot Studio or the Microsoft 365 agent builder
Paste the file as the agent's instructions
Connect only the sources this job needs, and test with a question the sources cannot answer

Other platforms

Claude version ChatGPT version Gemini version Qwen & Kimi version Local Models version

Canonical version and the skill's full description: Lesson Plan Builder. The underlying procedure is identical on every platform - only the packaging differs, because each model takes its skills its own way.

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