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Group lesson plans

For people like teachers, youth group leaders, mentors, local authorities, charities and parents or carers

What are lesson plans?

Our free lesson plans are our most popular educator resource, with thousands of downloads every month. Each lesson consists of a simple plan with supporting presentation slides that can be adapted to suit most learning environments.

Use the Category and Age range buttons to find content to meet your teaching needs, additionally you can also use the below filters to meet more specific requirements:

Quick activity: short classroom activities (15 minutes or less), for group and independent learning including films and interactive worksheets. These are located on their corresponding full length lesson plan pages.
SEND/ALN adapted: lesson plans adapted for young people with special educational needs, disabilities and alternative learning needs.
Care leavers: lesson plans specially designed to meet the needs of care leavers.
Remote learning: teaching resources designed for remote learning, including films and interactive worksheets. These are located on their corresponding full length lesson plan pages.

To help with planning visit the Scheme of learning homepage where you can find ready-made schemes of learning featuring activities to build employability skills and financial literacy. These are a sequence of curriculum linked resources to help you build progression in your learners' knowledge over time. You can also use our content guide, where lessons are mapped to each nation’s curriculum.