Make My Lesson vs SparkSchool AI

Make My Lesson creates curriculum-aligned teaching packs, including lesson plans, presentations, classroom activities, and assessments. Plans can contain standards-aligned objectives, timings, differentiation, and Bloom’s balance. Its presentation stage uses lesson objectives to produce a slide deck calibrated to the lesson’s duration, with speaker notes. Activity materials include a student sheet and teacher answer key; assessment materials include a paper and mark scheme. The service lists 69 curriculum routes across Australia, the UK, Canada, International Baccalaureate, and US/AP, along with 16 teaching methods. Teachers can export PDFs and PowerPoints, download ZIP files, print, or share to Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. Android, iOS, and web platforms are listed. The Free plan includes five generations and requires no card; the listed Monthly plan is $9.99 a month. The pricing note also says paid plans start at $15.99/mo. Unused paid credits expire at the end of the plan period. Lesson inputs are sent to US-based AI providers, which are instructed not to train on them; teachers are advised not to enter identifying student information.

SparkSchool AI brings lesson planning, classroom materials, assessments, differentiated practice and remediation into one workspace for educators. Its more than 90 AI tools cover tasks such as quizzes, worksheets, presentations and classroom insights. It supports CBSE and ICSE, US Common Core and state standards, the British national curriculum, IB programmes and the Australian Curriculum. Generated content is a draft: educators are expected to check accuracy, suitability and curriculum fit before using it in class.

The Free plan costs nothing and allows content generation without a generation limit, but stores up to five materials. Pro costs $5 a month and supports two subjects; Unlimited costs $7 a month and permits any number of subjects. Complete costs $11 a month and adds workflows including Spark Buddy, Curriculum Designer and Spark Notebook. Available on the web and as a Chrome extension, it works alongside Google Docs, Slides and Forms and offers exports whose formats depend on the tool and plan. SparkSchool is designed for adult educators, school leaders and parents or home educators, not direct-to-child use.