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by japhyr 5083 days ago
Can you clarify why they're not suitable? Or are there any patterns in your unmet needs?

Most lesson-plan sites I have seen are poorly executed. Organizing educational materials is a difficult problem:

- For example, consider Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a simple rule that there can only be one article per topic. This focuses people's thoughts around building one high-quality article for their favorite topics. You can't do that for education. There are a number of different ways to teach most skills and concepts, and we need that variety if we want to offer high-quality education to everyone.

- Once you accept that there are a number of ways to teach any one topic, you can see how hard it might be to collect "unit plans", or whatever you'd like to call them. A good approach would probably involve defining "pathways" through a series of topics.

- Many lesson plan sites are just plain incomplete as well. People see the need for improvement, build a site, and expect teachers to magically fill in all the content.

- Every lesson plan site I've seen has been poorly organized, incomplete, over-commercialized, or some combination of these.

If anyone thinks there is a site that addresses these issues effectively, I'd love to hear about it.