Curriculum Planner
Design structured curricula and lessons in minutes
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Can you say what a student in your subject should be able to do by the end of Year 9, and point to where each part of it is taught? Very few departments can. The Curriculum Planner maps that progression across terms and years, with pacing, assessment points and the milestones between them.
Short answer: The Curriculum Planner is a free AI helper on EizTools that designs curricula across a lesson, term, year or full programme, producing scope and sequence, unit maps or pacing calendars aligned to your chosen focus.
What is Curriculum Planner?
It plans structure at whatever scale you choose. From a single unit to a multi year programme, the Curriculum Planner lays out what is taught when and how each stage builds on the last.
The example running through this article is a three year science progression from Year 7 to Year 9, three lessons a week, with assessment points at the end of each term.
Why Use Curriculum Planner?
Curriculum documents usually exist. What is missing is the view across them, and that is where the problems live.
- Topics repeat across years without deepening
- A skill is assessed before it has been taught properly
- Term three is always crowded because term one was slow
- Nobody can see the whole progression on a single page
Key Features
Where it earns its place
- Scales from one lesson to a full programme
- Produces scope and sequence documents in a usable shape
- Pacing calendars show crowding before the year starts
- Structure types such as Spiral or Project-Based change the whole design
Where judgement is still yours
- Pacing ignores trips, snow days and the week everything slips
- It cannot know your cohort's starting point
- Standards alignment must be pasted in and then verified
- A plan is not agreement, and departments still have to agree
How Does Curriculum Planner Work?
Describe the subject, the years covered, the teaching time and the outcomes. Start at the model list, work down to the options, and generate from there. Results download as TXT, Word or HTML, which matters because this document gets shared.
Scope, Structure Type And Alignment Focus
| Option | What it decides | For a three year plan |
|---|---|---|
| Curriculum Scope | The span planned | Multi-Year |
| Structure Type | The design principle | Spiral, so topics deepen on return |
| Output Type | The document produced | Scope & Sequence, then Pacing Calendar |
| Alignment Focus | What the plan is built around | Progression across years |
Include Assessments places the checkpoints, Include Milestones marks the progression points, and Include Resources adds suggested material. Optimize for Flexibility produces a plan with slack in it, and the Planning Depth slider decides how much detail sits under each unit.
Generate the calendar separately Produce the scope and sequence first and agree it. Then generate a pacing calendar from the agreed version, because arguing about dates and content at the same time never ends well.
Mistakes That Show Up In Year Three
- Planning content without planning what gets revisited
- Assessment points that all fall in the same fortnight
- Assuming every year group has the same number of teaching weeks
- Writing the plan alone, then presenting it as finished
If you need the underlying units written rather than sequenced, the Curriculum Generator produces the content this plan then paces.
EizTools charges nothing for any of this, with no account and nothing measured or capped. every tool is a separate workspace with its own options. Switching AI model families in the selector gives you a second version of the same plan to compare, which is useful before a department meeting. Education planning tools sit together in the tools library.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a scope and sequence document?
It sets out what is taught and in what order across a period. Scope is the content covered, sequence is the order, and together they are the backbone of a curriculum plan.
Which structure type should I choose?
Spiral suits subjects where ideas deepen over years. Project-Based suits applied subjects. Standards-Based suits anything with external criteria attached. The choice changes the whole plan.
Can it plan across several year groups at once?
Yes. Set Curriculum Scope to Multi-Year and describe each year's teaching time, since these often differ and the plan will otherwise assume they match.
How much slack should a pacing calendar have?
Around one week per term is a sensible starting point. Switch on Optimize for Flexibility and the plan builds in room instead of assuming an uninterrupted year.
Does it work for primary as well as secondary?
Yes. Say the age range clearly, because progression in primary is written very differently from a subject specialist plan at secondary.
Can I use it for a training programme rather than a school?
Yes. Set the scope to Full Program and describe the competencies. The same structure works for workplace training with different vocabulary.
Curriculum planning is one of those jobs that is genuinely important and genuinely hard to start, which is why it tends to happen in August. Having a full sequence to react to makes the conversation easier and much shorter. Describe your subject and your years above and take the draft to your team.
Sabir Bepari
Founder of EizTools and a passionate AI enthusiast dedicated to building practical, user-friendly AI tools that simplify everyday tasks.
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