Chalkie AI: The AI Lesson Planner for Teachers

Chalkie is an AI lesson-planning tool for teachers. You enter a topic, choose your curriculum or standards, and it builds a complete, editable lesson in minutes: slides, worksheets, quizzes and interactive activities, adapted to different student abilities. It can also plan a whole lesson series and has a Teach mode for presenting in class. Chalkie says it is used by more than 1 million teachers worldwide. It is a planning and materials tool for educators, not a tutor that students chat with.

Yes, there is a free plan with no card details required. It lets you create up to 5 full-length lessons or activity sheets every 7 days and export them to Google and Microsoft formats. The free plan does not include curriculum and standards alignment, and resources carry a Chalkie badge. Paid plans raise the limits and add those features.

Chalkie's pricing page, read on November 9, 2026, lists four plans. Free costs US$0 for 5 resources a week. Pro costs US$6.65 a month when billed yearly (US$79.80 a year) for 200 resources a month, curriculum alignment, YouTube videos, lessons up to 25 slides and lesson series up to 12 lessons. Max costs US$12.99 a month billed yearly (US$155.88 a year) for 400 resources a month, lessons up to 35 slides and series up to 25 lessons. Schools get a custom quote. Yearly billing includes three months free compared with paying monthly, and you can change or cancel at any time.

Lesson slide decks, lesson series (multi-lesson units), worksheets, quizzes and interactive activities. Content can be personalized and differentiated for varying student abilities, and everything is editable, so you adjust the AI's draft instead of starting from a blank page. You can start from scratch with a topic, or generate from your own files, a URL or an existing lesson plan.

Sign up for a free account, then choose what to create: a lesson, a worksheet or a lesson series. Enter your topic and year group, pick your curriculum or standards if you are on Pro or Max, and add any guidance, files or links you want it to use. Chalkie generates the slides and activities; you then edit the text, swap images and reorder slides. Finish by exporting to Google or Microsoft formats, or teach straight from Chalkie using Teach mode.

Chalkie aligns lessons to national or state standards, and its site gives examples such as NGSS for science and C3 for social studies in the United States. Curriculum and standards alignment is a paid feature, included from the Pro plan up. Always check a generated lesson against your own scheme of work, because alignment is a starting point, not a guarantee.

Yes. Chalkie can generate a lesson from a URL, and the Pro and Max plans let you add YouTube videos to lessons. That removes much of the work of turning a useful video or article into a structured, teachable lesson. Check that the source is accurate and appropriate for your class before you teach from it.

Chalkie's plans include export to Google and Microsoft, so you can move lessons into the tools your school already uses. Export is available on the free plan. Lessons you created stay in your account even if you later cancel a paid plan; you only lose the paid features.

ChatGPT is a general assistant: it can draft lesson content well, but you have to prompt it carefully and then build the slides and worksheets yourself. Chalkie is purpose-built for teaching, so it outputs formatted slide decks, worksheets, quizzes and full units in one flow, aligned to your standards on paid plans. Choose Chalkie when you want finished, classroom-ready materials fast; use a general model for flexible, one-off help. See our guide to writing effective prompts if you use ChatGPT for teaching.

Yes. The Schools plan is priced by quote and adds linked teacher accounts, admin controls and usage tracking, centralized billing and custom lessons. Schools contact Chalkie through its school enquiry form. Before a school-wide rollout, review Chalkie's privacy terms against your district or trust data policy.