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A unit gives you a sequence of lessons. A lesson plan is one of those expanded into something you can actually teach from.

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Generating one

Open the Lessons view of a unit and choose the lesson you want. MESO expands it using the unit’s context — the topic, the outcomes you selected, the year group, and where this lesson sits in the sequence — so a lesson plan is consistent with the unit around it rather than generated in isolation.

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What a lesson carries

From the unit sequence, each lesson already has:
  • a title and a duration
  • its objectives
  • a status — planned, in progress or completed
  • optionally: activities, an assessment note, key learning, and resources
Expanding it fills that out into a full plan.

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Editing it

Lesson plans open in MESO Canvas, the editor. You can rewrite anything, and your edits are what persist — MESO does not overwrite your work on a later generation.
Treat the generated plan as a first draft from a colleague who knows the specification but not your class. The sequence and the outcome coverage are usually sound; the timings, the examples and the pitch are where your judgement matters.

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Checking it before you teach

Verify anything factual before it reaches a classroom — dates, quotations, formulae and worked answers. Where the plan cites a learning outcome reference, check it against the specification. MESO states an error as fluently as it states a fact.

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Attaching resources

Anything you generate in Resources can be created in the context of a unit, which is how a worksheet or a quiz ends up associated with the lesson it supports. See Create a resource.