7 Ways Expedition: Learn! Helps Save Time on Lesson Planning

Discover how our all-in-one tool transforms classroom preparation and student engagement.

Do you spend your planning time searching for standards-aligned and trustworthy resources and assembling them into lessons? According to the School Pulse Panel, public school teachers in the United States spend an average of 4 hours and 26 minutes per week on planning. This does not include lesson preparation, grading, and possibly reteaching content that students do not grasp. Time is important for teachers and having instructional tools that make lesson planning easier is always helpful. 

Expedition: Learn! has ready-made lesson plans so teachers can spend their time focusing on the academic needs of their students.

Let’s dive into some of the ways Expedition: Learn! can save valuable time while enhancing students’ learning experience!

1. Finding standards-aligned materials

With a built in search by standards function you can use Expedition: Learn! to find standards-aligned lessons, teaching materials, and hands-on activities. The content, assessment, and activities are high-quality, trustworthy, and work together seamlessly! No more scouring the internet to put together a patchwork of materials.

2. Planning your lesson

Just click on the teaching materials, which include lesson vocabulary, common misconceptions, formative assessment questions, teaching activities, and extension activities all in one handy PDF.

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3. Getting hands-on

No need to find or develop hands-on activities. Our Hands-On pdfs include teacher and student pages, materials lists, background information, and teaching tips to make standards-aligned investigations, research, modeling, data analysis, and STEM activities a breeze to prepare for and carry out.

4. Addressing diverse learners

Individualizing lessons to meet the needs of all students can be time-consuming. Let Expedition: Learn! meet your differentiation needs. Scaffold instruction with Lexile leveling, read-aloud mode, and translation tools to support students with various proficiencies and learning styles.

5. Reinforcing skills

Grab information from the Teacher Toolkits to focus in on important skills. 

6. Assessing student learning

Developing rigorous, standards-aligned assessment questions can be very time consuming! Expedition: Learn! provides standards-aligned assessment questions at three DOK levels, using a variety of technology-enhanced item types including short answer, fill-in, matching, choice matrix, multiple choice, matching, and more! Also, spend less time grading assessments. Our assessments provide immediate feedback on foundational content knowledge but also measure science and content-area reading skills.

7. Tracking results

Use our dynamic assessment tracking with skill-based reporting to save time on data analysis. These results can foster collaboration that can help improve instructional strategies, identify trends, and improve the effectiveness of data-informed school improvement efforts.

Planning, preparing, differentiating, grading, and supporting student learning takes time! Having tools that ease the process are essential for teacher preparedness and student success. Expedition: Learn! provides reliable, thoughtful, ready-made lessons that add ease to your lesson planning process, with engaging content and real-time student data. Let Expedition: Learn! save the day (or at least your planning period)! 

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