Teaching · For Teachers

Instructional Video Lesson Planner

Plan a lesson where the video is one part of the thinking: a purpose before it starts, short chunks with a task at each pause, and time to apply it.

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Plans

Each plan keeps the video, the pauses and a timed lesson. Load the worked example to see a nine-minute video taught in three chunks.

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What you get

Teaching · For Teachers$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A lesson plan with the video, its length, the pauses and access checks; a timeline that adds up against the lesson, checks the video minutes against the clip, flags long chunks and shows student thinking time; seven checks marked ready, not yet or not needed; and a run sheet with the pauses to print.
Who it is for
Teachers who use video in class or as homework, grades 3 to 12.
Format
Browser tool with a saved record per lesson plan. Prints a run sheet with clock times, the full lesson plan, every lesson plan in a table or a blank form; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the For Teachers toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Teachers space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Watch the video and note the stops.
  2. Write the purpose question.
  3. Lay out chunks, pauses and the apply task.
  4. Mark the checks.
  5. Print the run sheet beside the projector.

Start a plan

Video that students think with

A nine-minute video, taught in three chunks1Before: purpose and note guideOne question students answerfrom the video, and a guide2Chunk 1, then pauseStop at 3:30; students sketchwhat they saw3Chunk 2, then pauseStop at 6:40; students predictwhat comes next4Chunk 3, then discussFinish the video; partnersanswer the purpose question5ApplyUse the idea on a new problem,without the video6Exit questionOne question that shows whogot the main ideaA nine-minute video, taught in three chunks1Before: purpose and note guideOne question students answer from thevideo, and a guide with three boxes2Chunk 1, then pauseStop at 3:30; students sketch what theysaw3Chunk 2, then pauseStop at 6:40; students predict whatcomes next4Chunk 3, then discussFinish the video; partners answer thepurpose question5ApplyUse the idea on a new problem, withoutthe video6Exit questionOne question that shows who got the mainidea
Breaking a video at natural stops and giving students something to do at each one keeps them thinking instead of watching.

Short chunks

A large study of course videos found that viewers rarely kept watching much past six minutes, whatever the full length. Guidance on educational video recommends short segments, signals for what matters and an active task with each one. The planner flags any chunk past six minutes.

Access is part of the plan

Captions that match the speech, a transcript and a way to watch without home internet are part of the lesson design. Prerecorded video in a lesson should have accurate captions.

Sources

  1. Guo, P. J., Kim, J., and Rubin, R. (2014). How video production affects student engagement: an empirical study of MOOC videos. Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, 41-50.
  2. Brame, C. J. (2016). Effective educational videos: principles and guidelines for maximizing student learning from video content. CBE Life Sciences Education, 15(4), es6.
  3. Mayer, R. E. (2021). Multimedia Learning (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  4. W3C (2023). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Success Criterion 1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded).

The worked examples are made up. The six-minute and 50 percent flags are planning rules of thumb drawn from the sources. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.