Chalkie AI: The AI Lesson Planner for Teachers
Chalkie turns a topic and a curriculum into ready-to-teach slide decks, differentiated worksheets, and full lesson series in seconds, used by 500,000+ teachers to save about five hours a week. Here's what it does and what it costs.
Last updated June 17, 2026
Chalkie AI FAQ
What is Chalkie AI?
Chalkie is an AI lesson-planning tool for educators that generates curriculum-aligned lessons in seconds, a task that normally takes teachers hours each week. You enter a topic, select your curriculum, and guide the AI; it produces editable slide decks, differentiated worksheets, full lesson series with recaps and quizzes, key vocabulary, images, and suggested videos. It's used by more than 500,000 teachers worldwide and reportedly saves them about five hours a week.
What can Chalkie AI generate?
Chalkie produces complete teaching materials: editable slide decks, differentiated activity sheets (tailored for varying student abilities), full lesson series (units with recaps and quizzes), individual activities, key vocabulary lists, images, and suggested YouTube videos. Everything is editable, so teachers can adjust the AI's output to fit their class rather than starting from a blank page.
What is Chalkie's YouTube-to-Slides feature?
Introduced in 2026, YouTube to Slides lets a teacher paste a YouTube URL and have Chalkie extract the video's content and build a full slide deck around what the video covers. It removes the most time-consuming step of turning a useful video into a structured, teachable lesson, and is one of Chalkie's standout 2026 additions.
Is Chalkie AI free, and who is it for?
Chalkie is built for teachers and schools and offers a free way to try it plus paid plans for heavier use and school/department features; check Chalkie's site for current pricing tiers. It's aimed at classroom teachers across primary and secondary education who want to cut lesson-prep time while keeping materials curriculum-aligned and differentiated. It's a planning and materials tool, not a student-facing tutor.
How does Chalkie compare to using ChatGPT for lesson planning?
ChatGPT is a general assistant that can help draft lesson content, but you have to prompt it well and assemble the outputs (slides, worksheets) yourself. Chalkie is purpose-built for teaching: it's curriculum-aware and outputs ready-to-use, formatted slide decks, differentiated worksheets, and full units in one flow. For teachers who want finished, classroom-ready materials fast, a dedicated tool like Chalkie saves more time; for flexible, ad-hoc help, a general model still has its place. See our guide to writing effective prompts if you use ChatGPT for teaching.
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