MagicSchool is an AI-powered platform for creating and managing lesson plans and much more.

Features: MagicSchool offers over 60 tools to help educators. MagicSchool categories include lesson planning, communication, student support, productivity, and community.

Designed by a former teacher and principal, MagicSchool offers over 25 lesson planning tools alone, including Conceptual Understanding Generator, Lesson Plan Generator, Academic Content Generator, Rubric Generator, Multiple Explanations for Complex Concepts, AI-Resistant Assignment Suggestions, Unit Plan Generator, Math Story Word Problems, 5D Model Science Lesson Plan Generator, Multiple Choice Quiz Generator– Text-Based, Math Spiral Review Generator, Make It Relevant! tool, and more.

MagicSchool tools are also customizable to personalize learning for students and it’s available in 10 languages.

Tom’s Take: MagicSchool.AI is impressive. It’s essentially a teacher assistant offering a swiss-army knife full of time-saving tools. Its lesson planning tools are outstanding, featuring a vast selection of well planned and well organized tools to fit a range of teaching needs and reach a diverse range of students. It also provides teachers flexibility to select standards and specific curriculum topics. In other words, it’s customizable — and intuitive.

Some AI assistants offer more tools than MagicSchool.ai, but MagicSchool offers more specialized tools for Math and Science, such as a Math Spiral Review Generator, designed to provide review materials for various math topics, and the Math Story Word Problem tool to generate a puzzle for students, offering a different approach to understanding a Math concept. For science teachers, MagicSchool provides a Science Lab Generator that provides a structured lab plan, and other tools, like the Three Dimensional Science Assessment Generator and the 5E Model Science Lesson Plan Generator, offer varied methods for science lesson planning and student assessment.

Price: MagicSchool offers a free trial period. Unlimited teacher access costs $8.33/mo ($99.96 yearly).

SchoolAI is an AI-driven teaching assistant that helps educators with various tasks, including lesson planning.

Features: Teachers can input key information like grade level and topic to generate lesson plans aligned with educational standards.

These plans are customizable and can be exported as PDFs or Google Docs. The platform also creates student activities such as Choose Your Own Adventure stories, interactive videos, and exit tickets.

Similar to MagicSchool, SchoolAI offers personalized learning experiences. Teachers can set up "spaces" where students interact with AI tutors, with appropriate safeguards in place. These spaces can be customized to reflect teacher-approved content.

The platform includes tools to track and analyze student performance. It integrates with digital platforms and Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Google Classroom and Canvas to gather data on student interactions, including assignment submissions, quiz results, and online discussion participation.

SchoolAI then provides personalized feedback and recommendations based on this data.

Tom’s Take: SchoolAI offers a variety of customizable lesson plan templates suitable for different teaching styles and subjects. Plans can be aligned with state and national standards.

The platform is particularly beneficial if students are active users, as it provides numerous supervised activities. Overall, SchoolAI is a user-friendly, customizable lesson planner available at no cost for individual teachers.

Price: SchoolAI is free for individual teachers. SchoolAI offers premium plans for school or district-wide implementation.

ChatGPT is a conversational AI chatbot from OpenAI, recently endowed with voice and vision capabilities. ChatGPT can be an invaluable tool for generating lesson plans and lesson activities.

Features: ChatGPT is a versatile platform to create, organize, and manage lesson plans. It can create lessons plans by subject, topic, grade level, and other parameters, and can assist with addressing individual student needs. It can also create a unit plan with learning goals, essential questions, key concepts, skills, assessments, and resources. used to brainstorm ideas for lesson plans. Teachers can provide a prompt related to the topic they are teaching, and ChatGPT can generate responses that can be used to create lesson plans or activities.

And it do much more. It can generate questions for discussion and reflection problem sets or quizzes for practice. It can generate diagrams or visual aids to further enhance understanding. ChatGPT can also break down complex information and principles into digestible information for handouts. It can also suggest practical activities or projects that students can undertake to understand issues better.

Furthermore, ChatGPT can assist in explaining complex concepts. Similarly, it can also provide real-world examples to make these abstract concepts more relatable for students.

Tom’s Take: ChatGPT is incredibly useful and versatile. It can help facilitate a whole range of lesson ideas, such an group and individual activities, role-playing activities, simulations, experiments, labs, and more. ChatGPT can also help teachers create lessons that are based on different learning strategies and help foster active learning environments by generating

But to leverage ChatGPT effectively, teachers need to create effective prompts. In contrast, both MagicSchool and Eduaide offer pre-constructed prompts to simply the process of generating relevant and appropriate content.

But what ChatGPT lacks in structure and organization it makes up for in versatility.

Price: The newest, fastest, and most advanced model is GPT-4o and is free to use.

Education CoPilot offers AI-generated lesson plans and lesson activities as well as other educational resources.

Features: Designed for use with students in Grade 4 and up, Education CoPilot can help teachers create entire lesson units, customizable lesson plans, and educational handouts. It can also outline potential projects for the classroom and help teachers with writing prompts. In addition, it can generate various templates quickly, including PowerPoint, and can also review student work and create reports.

Tom’s Take: Education Copilot is versatile, quick, easy-to-use, and reasonably priced. It can help teachers save a lot of time spent on lesson planning and educational handouts. I especially love how it can generate entire units customized to a teacher’s criteria and the number of lessons they desire. It produces templates as well and is accessible in both English and Spanish.

That said, Education CoPilot not as full-featured as Eduaide and MagicSchool.ai and I had technical glitches while waiting for my customized units to appear. Furthermore, Education Copilot doesn’t disclose the LLM it’s using, which makes me suspect it’s GPT-3 and not GPT-4. But, all in all, Education Copilot is a great teaching assistant and worth the investment.

Price: Monthly price is now $9/month as of January 2024.

TeachMateAi is an AI-powered digital assistant designed to help teachers manage their administrative tasks. It is geared towards teachers following the International Baccalaureate program or the UK National Curriculum in England.

Features: TeachMateAI offers a suite of tools that can assist with various aspects of teaching. With its intuitive interface and comprehensive features, TeachMateAI streamlines the lesson-planning process, allowing teachers to focus on delivering high-quality instruction to their students. The platform offers a range of tools, including lesson plan generators, resource creation assistants, and assessment builders, all powered by advanced AI algorithms.

An important feature of TeachMateAi is the idea generator. Its aim is to provide creative ways for students to express their knowledge and understanding.

TeachMateAi also offers a model text generation tool and a comprehension text generation tool. These tools can be helpful for teachers who need to create lesson plans, handouts, or other materials.

Furthermore, TeachMateAi can generate questions to accompany comprehension texts, which can be useful for assessing students' understanding of the text.

Price: Free use of 12 tools; Pro account includes all tools for 6.99 pounds/month (about $8.50 US)

Lessonplans.ai by Education Workers Group is a K-12 lesson-plan generator

Features: LessonPlans.ai generates lesson plans for up to 27 subjects that include traditional curriculum areas as well as less-traditional: Learning Through Play, Social Emotional Learning, Environmental, and Holidays.

Lessonplans.ai is simple to use. Teachers select a Grade Level, choose the subject area, and write a brief lesson plan and title. Lessonplans.ai then generates a lesson plan that includes objectives and outcomes, direct instruction, practice, and assessment. Teachers can download the lesson plan after rating it.

Tom’s Take: Lessonplans.ai is easy-to-use, and relatively inexpensive. Its lesson plans cover a wider range of subjects than do Education CoPilot and Teacherbot and they can be downloaded.

But, both Education CoPilot and Teacherbot offer many more educational resources, including educational handouts, literacy resources, and more. I think it’s worth spending a little more and subscribing to Eduaide, Education CoPilot or Teacherbot instead.

Price: Annual fee is $49

Teachology.ai offers a suite of AI-generated tools for teachers.

Features: Teacherbot includes a lesson plan generator, a quiz generator for multiple-choice assessments, and a reflection generator for writing comments. With Teachology.ai teachers can create lesson plans quickly, construct rubric driven assessments, write personalized comments, outline units and projects, and design a syllabus. Designed by ex-teachers, Teachology is driven by GPT-4

Tom’s Take: In all, Teachology.ai offers a variety of tools for lesson planning, assessment, and reflection, while LessonPlans.ai and Education Copilot focus mainly on lesson planning. Furthermore, LessonPlans.ai provides more detailed and personalized lesson plans than Teachology.ai and Education Copilot, which generate more general and customizable lesson plans. Education Copilot also offers PowerPoint and student performance reports, which Teachology.ai and LessonPlans.ai do not.

Price: Free account allows for 3 Lessons, 3 Assessments and 3 Comment Templates. Basic account costs $6/mo and includes Unlimited Lessons, Assessments, Comments and all other features. Pro account costs $12/mo and features exporting in common formats such as Word and PDF.

Twee AI is designed to enrich teaching and learning in English classrooms.

Features: Twee offers a versatile range of tools designed to facilitate the creation, analysis, and discussion of specific texts. For instance, Twee is adept at generating thought-provoking questions, tailored exercises, and quizzes centered on a given text. It also excels at crafting engaging lead-in activities to prepare students for text comprehension. Furthermore, Twee boasts an array of vocabulary-enhancing resources, encompassing exercises like word-formation and word-definition matching. Additionally, it can construct concise dialogues utilizing target vocabulary and identify collocations within a text based on provided vocabulary parameters.

Twee doesn't overlook grammar, offering exercises that challenge students to select the correct verb form and unscramble words within sentences. Moreover, it provides a suite of tools —including video-based features — to stimulate discussions and inspire homework assignments.

Tom’s Take: If you teach English, or any subject in the Humanities, Twee is especially worthy of your time. It’s versatile and adept at working with text in various capacities that can further both your teaching and your student understanding.

Price: Twee free account includes 20 runs/month for Text Tools and 10 runs/month for Media Tools. The Pro account offers unlimited runs and costs $19/month.

Teacherbot uses AI to create customizable lesson plans, activities, quizzes, assessments, and more.

Features: Designed for K-20 students, Teacherbot offers resources in 9 curriculum areas: Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Literacy, Foreign Languages, Literacy, Technology, and Health. It features a “Curriculum Wizard” to plan a lesson and activity based on your country’s national curriculum as well as special reading and writing resources and exemplars.

Teacherbot’s AI capabilities allow it to generate lesson plans and activities that are aligned with specific curriculum standards and learning objectives. It can also generate quizzes and assessments that are tailored to specific needs students.

Tom’s Take: Overall, Teacherbot is a powerful tool that can help teachers create engaging and effective lesson plans, activities, quizzes, assessments, and more. But while pricing is similar, Teacherbot does not offer as wide a range of educational resources as Education Pilot — for instance, educational handouts. And materials are only available in English.

Price: Basic monthly subscription is 4.99 pounds sterling (about $6.36 in US dollars)and includes 50 searches. The annual Pro account is 49 pounds (about $62.50 US).

Teachally is a generative AI teacher tool that helps teachers create quality lesson plans and assignments.

Features: Teachers can use Teachally to create assignments that include quizzes, worksheets, videos, and web links. Teachally offers various features such as a question bank creator, demo quizzes, and real-time chat support.

Teachers can even add question explanations to give standardized feedback to students. And there are communication tools to keep parents and guardians in the loop.

Tom’s Take: I learned about teachally from educators in AI online forums. There are certainly some very enthusiastic Teachally users and it offers an impressive range of features. I have not as yet done a teachally v. Magic School or Eduaide analysis as yet, but I am impressed with what I have seen to date.

Price: Free plan for up to 50 students. Paid plans run from $5-$20/month. The Teacher Plan costs $5 a month for up to 100 students.

Auto Classmate provides a range of free tools for educators to automate the classroom, including an AI-powered lesson plan generator.

Features: Founded by a middle school teacher, Auto Classmate offers varied free tools, including a question generator, an activity generator, and an instructional coach chatbot.

The Auto Classmate Lesson Plan Generator is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and produces customizable and editable lesson plans with the option to align with state standards. Simply input what you want your students to learn, the grade level and state. You also have the option to include state standards.

Tom’s Take: The Auto Classmate Lesson Plan Generator is a simple and easy-to-use tool for generating lesson plans. I was able to generate a detailed lesson on the Industrial Revolution in less than a minute. I like the option to align with state standards and regenerate new lesson plans.

Price: Free

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