Developmental domain mapping
Tag the domains every plan touches — for your director, your portfolio, your records.
Made for preschool teachers, by a preschool teacherThe lesson plan tool
The lesson plan tool
that gets preschool.
Fluent in five preschool frameworks, with developmental domains mapped automatically. Drop in your activity idea — get back a classroom-ready plan.
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What do you want to plan today?
5 free plans every day. No credit card.
Free for teachers — always
No ads, no upsells
Built by a preschool teacher
Maps to developmental domains
How it works
From spark to plan in three steps.
Planella does the structural work — domains, objectives, format — so you can do the human work.
01
Drop in your spark
One idea is enough — "shadow play," "ramp races," "leaf collage." No long brief, no template to fill out.
02
Pick age + framework
Toddlers or Pre-K. Creative Curriculum®, HighScope®, Montessori, Reggio-inspired, or Play-based — Planella shapes the plan to match your room.
03
Get the plan
Objectives, materials, procedure, prompts, and the developmental domains it touches. Printable, emailable, yours.
The developmental domains and learning areas your activity touches map automatically — regardless of which framework you pick.
See a real plan
Plans that feel done.
Every plan is laid out for the way a teacher actually reads — objectives up top, materials as a checklist, procedure broken into beats, prompts you can actually say out loud.
Sample plan · rolling balls down ramps
Ramps, balls, and how things move
Pre-K · ages 4–5🔬 Science & Math🏃 Physical Development🌿 Cognitive Development
Learning objectivesMaterials needed
Step-by-step procedure
What's covered
Every plan maps the areas it touches.
These are the developmental domains and learning areas I draw from — each plan tags the ones your activity actually reaches, not a quota to fill.
Physical Development
Social & Emotional
Language & Literacy
Cognitive Development
Creative Arts
Science & Math
Approaches to Learning
Why teachers switch
Skip the 45-minute lesson plan.
Doing it manually
With Planella
Time per plan
Doing it manually≈ 45 minutes
With Planella≈ 90 seconds
Developmental domains mapped
Doing it manually—
With Planella✓ Automatic
Print-ready format
Doing it manuallyYou format it
With Planella✓ Yes
Framework presets
Doing it manually—
With Planella✓ 5 of them
Cost
Doing it manuallyYour evening
With Planella$0
What you can include
Every plan, the way you teach.
Choose the sections that fit your room, your time, and your day. Nothing is mandatory — everything is there if you want it.
Teacher scripts
Word-for-word lines to introduce, redirect, and close out — so you're never caught searching for the right words mid-activity.
Materials & alternatives
Supply lists with budget-friendly swaps for anything you don't have on hand.
Differentiation
Adaptations for younger kids, older kids, ELL, and kids with special needs — included from the start, not an afterthought.
Observation & assessment
What to watch for during the activity, and how to document it for portfolios and conferences.
Family connection
A take-home idea families can try together — so the activity reaches past your room.
Hi, I'm Jenn
I built Planella because I know this job from the inside.
10+ years as a preschool teacher — plus working with children with special needs and nannying. Master of Arts in Education from Pacific Oaks. I made the planning tool I wished I had at 6:45am on a Tuesday.
Frequently asked
Questions teachers ask.
Yes — five plans a day for any teacher, student teacher, or homeschool parent, no credit card. I don't sell your data and I don't run ads. A free daily plan is here to stay — and down the road I'll add optional paid tools for teachers who want more, like weekly planning and circle-time kits.
Five: Creative Curriculum®, HighScope®, Montessori, Reggio-inspired, and Play-based. Every plan also maps the developmental domains and learning areas your activity touches, regardless of which framework you pick — it's not something you pick, it's something you get.
Honestly — yes. ChatGPT will give you a lesson plan if you ask. The catch is what it doesn't know: what makes a Reggio-inspired plan actually read as Reggio-inspired, what a three-year-old can hold for fifteen minutes versus thirty, which developmental domains and learning areas an activity really touches. I built Planella so you don't have to teach the model any of that — it already knows the five frameworks (Creative Curriculum®, HighScope®, Montessori, Reggio-inspired, Play-based), the age stages, and the domains and areas worth tagging, and shapes the plan around the one you pick. Different tool for a different job: ChatGPT is built to write almost anything; Planella is built to plan preschool.
Yes — it's yours. Before you generate, you pick which sections to include, and on the plan itself you can toggle sections on or off to build the exact PDF you want to print or email. From there, edit by hand, copy it into your own doc, or run it again with a tweaked idea. (There's no in-app text editor yet, so wording changes happen off the page.) A starting point, not a final draft.
Planella is grounded in NAEYC's Developmentally Appropriate Practice — the foundation most early childhood training is built on. Every plan maps across the developmental domains and learning areas used in Head Start's ELOF and most state early-learning standards. Planella isn't a NAEYC product — it's a tool built by a preschool teacher, grounded in the practice she was trained in.