1. LearnZillion Notes:
--This is your hook. Start with a question to draw the student in. We want that student saying, “huh, how do you do X?” Try to be specific. For example, the hook could be “How do you know if 2/3 is greater than 5/8?” rather than something more generic such as “How do you compare fractions?”
--You can fill in an example using the blue text or you can delete that text box and include some other image that explains what you’re talking about.

2. LearnZillion Notes:
--This is our lesson objective. Keep it as short and student-friendly as possible. Put what they will learn in green and then how they’ll learn it in blue. For example, “In this lesson you will learn how to find the main idea of a nonfiction article by reading over your notes and asking, “What is this article mostly about?”

3. We’ve finished reading
“The Reformation of Jimmy Valentine-Safe Cracker”
Jimmy Valentine Theme
LearnZillion Notes:
--Some lessons may build off of previous lessons. In those cases, it may be helpful to include one or more review slides. Use these slides to remind students of previous concepts you’ve taught in other lessons.
--Feel free to move or resize the blue text box to fit your content.
--Remember that you can add multiple “Let’s Review” slides if you need them or you can just delete this slide!

4. LearnZillion Notes:
--For some lessons it may be best to include a slide or two about “A Common Mistake.” These slides show students what mistakes to avoid so that they can follow the Core Lessons more easily.
--Feel free to move or resize the blue text box to fit your content.
--Remember that you can add multiple “A Common Mistake” slides if you need them or you can just delete this slide!

5. Jimmy Valentine: Beginning: End: LearnZillion Notes:
--The Core Lesson may take more than one slide. You can add as many of these slides as you like. Simply click on “New Slide” and then select the Core Lesson template slide to add a new one.
--Feel free to move or resize the blue text box to fit your content.

6. LearnZillion Notes:
--The Core Lesson may take more than one slide. You can add as many of these slides as you like. Simply click on “New Slide” and then select the Core Lesson template slide to add a new one.
--Feel free to move or resize the blue text box to fit your content.

7. What does this mean in my
life?
LearnZillion Notes:
--The Core Lesson may take more than one slide. You can add as many of these slides as you like. Simply click on “New Slide” and then select the Core Lesson template slide to add a new one.
--Feel free to move or resize the blue text box to fit your content.

8. Ask how does this theme apply in the real world?
LearnZillion Notes:
--You can delete any of these that you don’t need.

9. LearnZillion Notes:
--This is the lesson conclusion. On this slide you’ll change your original lesson objective to past tense and explain what the student has just learned. You can retype it here or you can delete the text on this slide and then just copy and paste the text box from the original Lesson Objective slide and then edit it to make it past tense!

10. Jimmy Valentine: Beginning: End: LearnZillion Notes:
--The “Guided Practice” should include 1 practice problem that targets the skill that was used in the Core Lesson. Use the same vocabulary and process you used in the original lesson to solve this problem. You’ll be making a video in which you solve this question using your tablet and pen, so all you need to do is write the question on this slide.

11. What does this mean in my
life?
LearnZillion Notes:
--The “Guided Practice” should include 1 practice problem that targets the skill that was used in the Core Lesson. Use the same vocabulary and process you used in the original lesson to solve this problem. You’ll be making a video in which you solve this question using your tablet and pen, so all you need to do is write the question on this slide.

12. Ask how does this theme apply in the real world?
LearnZillion Notes:
--The “Guided Practice” should include 1 practice problem that targets the skill that was used in the Core Lesson. Use the same vocabulary and process you used in the original lesson to solve this problem. You’ll be making a video in which you solve this question using your tablet and pen, so all you need to do is write the question on this slide.

13. LearnZillion Notes:
--On the Extension Activities slide(s) you should describe 2-3 activities written with students as the audience (not teachers). Each extension activity should push the students a bit further with the lesson but in a different application or context. Each activity should be designed to take roughly minutes. Teachers will likely display the slide in class and then assign an activity to a student or group for additional practice and differentiation. Ideally, these Extension Activities will be created such that a teacher can differentiate instruction by giving more difficult extension activities to students who have shown mastery of the lesson, and less difficult activities to students who are not yet proficient.
--If you need more than one slide to list your extension activities, feel free to copy and paste this slide!

14. LearnZillion Notes:
--On the Extension Activities slide(s) you should describe 2-3 activities written with students as the audience (not teachers). Each extension activity should push the students a bit further with the lesson but in a different application or context. Each activity should be designed to take roughly minutes. Teachers will likely display the slide in class and then assign an activity to a student or group for additional practice and differentiation. Ideally, these Extension Activities will be created such that a teacher can differentiate instruction by giving more difficult extension activities to students who have shown mastery of the lesson, and less difficult activities to students who are not yet proficient.
--If you need more than one slide to list your extension activities, feel free to copy and paste this slide!

15. LearnZillion Notes:
--On the Extension Activities slide(s) you should describe 2-3 activities written with students as the audience (not teachers). Each extension activity should push the students a bit further with the lesson but in a different application or context. Each activity should be designed to take roughly minutes. Teachers will likely display the slide in class and then assign an activity to a student or group for additional practice and differentiation. Ideally, these Extension Activities will be created such that a teacher can differentiate instruction by giving more difficult extension activities to students who have shown mastery of the lesson, and less difficult activities to students who are not yet proficient.
--If you need more than one slide to list your extension activities, feel free to copy and paste this slide!

16. LearnZillion Notes:
--”Quick Quiz” is an easy way to check for student understanding at the end of a lesson. On this slide, you’ll include a way for teachers to quickly and authentically assess student understanding. That’s it! You won’t be recording a video of this slide and when teachers download the slides, they’ll direct their students through the example on their own so you don’t need to show an answer to the question.

17. Use this rubric to ensure your lesson plan is great!
Lesson Slides Rubric
Use this rubric to ensure your lesson plan is great!
LearnZillion Notes:
--You can delete this page and everything below it once you’re finished with your presentation!

18. Storyline or Arc of the Lesson
Criteria for Success
Things to avoid
Storyline or Arc of the Lesson
There is a clear arc to the lesson. One slide leads naturally to the next so that there is a flow and a building of meaning
All the components of the lesson are there but they seem disconnected, as if the author wrote each without thinking about how they fit into the whole.
Hook Slide
The teacher poses a simple question that illicits the response, “yeah, I do wonder how that works…”
The question is short
A relevant example is included when it is short and further pulls the learner in
The question mirrors what the student will learn, then need to do later in the guided practice
The question seems formulaic, inauthentic, or overly “school-ish” (message: you have to learn this because you’re in school rather than, this is genuinely interesting)
The hook is overly-complicated and potentially confusing
The question does not parallel the guided practice questions
Objective Slide
The objective follows the form (you will learn X by doing Y)
Is concise and follows the form provided in the examples
Does not follow the form
Is overly vague in describing either the X or the Y
Is too long
Is written for teachers but not students
Let’s Review
Reminds the student of how this lesson fits with other lessons (the lesson, however, should still be able to stand on its own)
Reminds the student of the text this lesson focuses on
Reminds the student of important vocabulary
Is as concise as possible
Is either too detailed or not detailed enough in connecting the lesson to other lessons
Leaves out important touch points
Makes the lesson overly dependent on the other lessons (student will be confused or feel like they’ve made a mistake, if they watch this lesson alone)
Is too elaborate

19. Modeling
Is in “think aloud” format. The teacher is opening up his/her thought process to the student and modeling the struggle; showing how he/she drafts and revises ideas in his/her mind
Engages the learner by asking questions along the way to build suspense
Examples are authentic - they show empathy for the learner and his/her interests, concerns, problems without speaking down the learner
In context, points out one or more “common mistakes” that students make
Anticipates the 2-3 steps listed below so that they make sense as a summary of what the teacher did while modeling.
Fails to explain his/her thinking along the way. The teacher effortlessly runs through the steps as if it’s all obvious and easy
Does not ask any questions along the way to pull the learner in
Uses examples which are unlikely to connect with the learner’s life
Misses opportunities to highlight “common mistakes” that students make when trying to do this
Does not anticipate the 2-3 strategy steps
Steps
Clearly connects with the objective
Includes 2-3 steps that a reader can take to achieve the objective
Is student focused (the steps accurately imagine what a student who has never done this before will need to do)
Is logical and specific (you can visualize the act of doing the step. There is no magic leap that happens between steps)
The connection with the objective is unclear
Includes 4+ steps (and therefore should be split into two or more lessons)
Involves a magic leap that assumes a student can make a leap between steps that is natural to an adult
Objective Review
Reviews the objective in a way which shows how doing the steps accomplishes the objective
Serves as a “let’s pull this all together” moment that helps organize the lesson in the learner’s mind
Fails to show connection between steps and objective
Creates abrupt feeling between the modeling and the reviewing (subtext: “we’re done modeling, let’s quickly bring this lesson to a close.”)

20. Extension Activity Suggestions
Guided Practice
Walks the learner through the same steps
Uses examples (in the teaching points document) to demonstrate the teacher’s learning
Is at the same difficulty level modeled in the lesson
Seem unrelated to the hook question
Is at a different difficulty level than that modeled in the lesson
Extension Activity Suggestions
Includes a suggestion for a struggling student who needs more opportunities for practice
Includes suggestions for students who get it and are ready to be challenged further
Suggestions should clearly build from the approach in the core lesson
Does not include differentiation
Does not thoughtfully connect or flow from the lesson
Does not clearly build from the approach in the core lesson
Does not give a range of independent practice activities
Aesthetics
The slides use the correct colors (blue, green, red) in the correct sequence (add that sequence here)
The slides use the correct fonts
The slides use handwriting and the handwriting appears as written in the right places
The slides only use the headers/titles provided
The slides use the provided visuals or include visuals created by the author or LearnZillion
The slides use animation, highlighting, and circling to scaffold the learning, keeping the eye focused on what the teacher is introducing/explaining
The slides clean and uncluttered. The visuals and text do not exceed the maximum amount (see tutorial for example of maximum)
The slides use other colors or vary the order of the colors
The slides add new headers/titles that aren’t part of the template
The slides use clip art
The slides are cluttered
Animation is distracting and feels more like sizzle than part of the steak

21. Graphic and Image Templates
Copy and Paste items from these slides to make your presentation look great!
LearnZillion Notes:
--You can delete this page and everything below it once you’re finished with your presentation!

22. LearnZillion Notes:
--The first time text appears, it should always appear letter by letter using animation. If the same text appears later (perhaps in a review section), the text should simply fade in.
--Use green text for headlines and main ideas, blue for examples and detail, and red for even more intricate details or examples.
--Always use black text on the “yellow sticky note” images.
--Never use a font size smaller than 28

23. LearnZillion Notes:
--The bubbles and text are separate pieces (not “grouped”). That means that you’ll want to select both of them before you can move, copy or paste the set. You can select both of them and resize them together or you can select just the text box or just the bubble and adjust either one.
--If you select just the bubble, you can grab the yellow square to manipulate or elongate the tail.
--Use letter-by-letter animation the first time you show a given text bubble, but if the same bubble appears later, use “fade” animation.

24. LearnZillion Notes:
--The sticky notes and text are separate pieces (not “grouped”). That means that you’ll want to select both of them before you can move, copy or paste the set. You can select both of them and resize them together or you can select just the text box or just the sticky note and adjust either one.
--Use letter-by-letter animation the first time you show a given sticky note, but if the same note appears later, use “fade” animation for the text.

25. Common Issues:
--To rotate an arrow, select it and then drag the green dot to rotate however you like.
--To change the color of an arrow, select the arrow, then on the “Home” tab select “Shape Fill”

26. LearnZillion Notes:
--You can delete any of these that you don’t need.

27. LearnZillion Notes:
--You can resize these boxes and use them to highlight text in a passage or an important piece of an equation etc. You can also use a pen or other drawing tool though.

28. LearnZillion Notes:
--You can create a new slide that automatically uses one of these banners by clicking the arrow under “new slide” and choosing from one of the master templates.
--If you want to edit the text though, you can grab one of these and adjust as necessary.