Submit a lesson plan
You have taught it. We can build it. Send the science lesson you already run, and we turn it into a page on this site — every step wired to a live simulator, your name on it, free for every classroom that comes after yours.
Why we are asking teachers, of all people
This site can compute where the moon will be tonight to a fraction of a degree. What it cannot compute is what happens at 10:15 on a Tuesday when a fourth grader asks why the moon is out in the daytime and the projector will not focus. You know things about teaching this material that no simulator can derive — which step runs long, which analogy finally lands, which question a class always asks and which answer never satisfies them.
So this is the trade. You send the lesson as you actually teach it. We do the part we are good at: rebuild it on the simulators, check the science, wire every step to the exact view so one link puts thirty screens on the same sky, and make it printable. The result carries your name and goes out free — no sign-up, no paywall, no ads — to any teacher who wants it. Your lesson, minus the part where every other teacher has to reinvent it.
Astronomy and Earth science are what we most want — the solar system, the moon and its phases, the seasons, day and night, tides. That is where the tools are strongest and where a teacher's lesson gains the most from being rebuilt on them. Time and calendar lessons are welcome too.
This is a new program. Your submission would be the first. We rewrite it for the site, credit you the way you ask, and email you when it is live.
Submit a lesson plan
Not a proposal, not a wish — the thing you taught last term, in whatever state it is in: a Doc, a scanned worksheet, five bullet points, a plan with the timings still wrong. This costs you a copy-and-paste.
What happens to it
- A person reads it. Nothing is published automatically, and nothing goes up without a reply to you first.
- We rewrite it in the site's voice and wire every step to a live view, the way the existing lesson plans are built. The science is checked; the shape stays yours.
- You are credited the way you asked to be — “from a lesson by Ms Thomas, Paradise Elementary” — and we email you when it is live. If we cannot use it, we say so rather than leaving you waiting.
Nothing here collects anything from a child. There are no student accounts, no student forms, no uploads and no public comments — the only address this site ever holds is the teacher's, and it is used to reply to the teacher. Questions are published as “a 5th-grade class asked…”, never with a name. If a student's name reaches us in a paste, we delete it before anything is written. Location, where a page offers it, is optional and stays on the device. Privacy.
Send the questions your class asked
Easier than a lesson plan, and worth as much. Every lesson on this site is built around a question, and the good ones are never the ones an adult would have written — why is the night sky dark?, does the moon follow the car?, if gravity pulls everything, why doesn't the moon fall on us? Those came from children.
Send us what your class asked and we will try to answer each one inside a lesson, on a page you can bring back to them. Published as “a 5th-grade class asked…” — never with a student's name.
Or start a lesson from nothing, together
If the lesson does not exist yet — you know what you want the class to see, and no tool shows it — that is a different door: ask us to build a simulator. We take those as challenges, and if we build yours, your class is credited on the page it inspired. How that works is written down.
Common questions
Do you publish everything you receive? No — a person reads every submission, and nothing goes up without a reply to you first. If we can use it, we convert it and credit you; if we cannot, we say so rather than leaving you waiting.
Does it have to be polished? Or original? Neither. Rough notes, a scanned worksheet, five bullet points — all fine, because we rewrite everything into the site's voice anyway. AI-assisted drafts are fine too. What we need is the right to adapt it: your own material, or material you are free to share. A photocopy of a paid curriculum is the one thing we will refuse.
What do I get out of it? Your lesson, rebuilt on live simulators, at a permanent address you can project, print and share — with your name on it, the way you asked for it to appear. And every other teacher gets it too, which is the point.
What subjects are you looking for? Astronomy and Earth science first — the solar system, the moon, the seasons, day and night, tides. That is where the site's tools are strongest and where a converted lesson gains the most. Time and calendar lessons are welcome too.
I don't have a lesson — just questions my class asked. Is that useful? Very. The whole catalog is organised around real questions, and we cannot invent the ones a real nine-year-old asks. Send them through the second form; we will try to answer each one inside a lesson, credited to your class if you want.
Is any of this collected from students? No. The teacher is the only sender, the teacher's email is the only address we hold, and questions are published as “a 5th-grade class asked…” — never with a name. If a student's name arrives in a paste, we delete it.