Backwards Design Unit Planner
Plan a unit from desired outcomes → assessment evidence → learning activities
What it does
Plans a teaching unit using backwards design (Understanding by Design): desired outcomes first, then assessment evidence, then learning activities. Built for new units.
Try this prompt
I'm planning a Year 9 science unit on cells — 6 weeks, 3 lessons a week.
Keep going in Paradigm
Its outcome-first unit maps to a Paradigm course base gameplan that learners fork.
How to install
- Click “Copy install prompt” and paste it into your agent. The agent fetches the skill from its source.
- Or copy the skill folder from the source into
~/.claude/skills/(Claude Code) or your agent’s skills folder. - Read the skill’s SKILL.md before you run it. Paradigm lists this skill but did not write it.
- Author
- GarethManning
- GitHub stars
- ★ 876
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Category
- Course creation
- Runs in
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Checked