Chalkie

What Chalkie does

Chalkie.ai is an AI-powered platform designed for teachers to quickly generate curriculum-aligned learning materials. It helps educators create lessons, lesson series, activity sheets, and unit plans in seconds, saving significant time on preparation. The platform offers features like AI editing, integration with Google and Microsoft tools, and alignment to national and state standards across multiple countries. It caters to various grade levels and subjects, providing unique and customizable resources for diverse classroom needs.

Products

• AI Lesson PlannerGenerates curriculum-aligned lesson slides with built-in differentiation options, presentation-ready slides, and editable Google Slides in seconds for various grade levels and subjects.
• AI Unit PlannerPlans curriculum-aligned lesson sequences on any topic, creating structured units of lessons with objectives, editable slides, and activities for weekly, half-term, or term-long plans.
• AI Worksheet GeneratorGenerates worksheets aligned to curriculum on any topic, including quizzes, gap fills, and differentiated tasks, ready to edit, download, share, or print.
• AI Classroom Activity GeneratorGenerates activities aligned to curriculum and topic, including starters, plenaries, and group tasks, to boost lesson engagement and interaction.

Key capabilities

• Lessons in seconds
• Learning materials designed by you and generated by AI
• Create fun, accurate, and classroom-ready slides
• Instantly align to Common Core or specific state standards
• Create ordered series of lessons on complex topics with recaps and quizzes
• Generate engaging activities to go with lessons
• Ready to share, export or print
• Unique lessons and activities tailored to your class
• Align lessons to national or state standards and curriculum frameworks (NGSS, C3)
• Generate lessons from scratch or use existing resources (lesson plan, file, website URL)
• Export to Google & Microsoft
• AI edits
• Remove 'Chalkie' badge (Pro/Max plans)
• Add YouTube videos (Pro/Max plans)
• Custom themes and fonts (Max plan)
• Linked teacher accounts (Schools plan)
• Admin controls and tracking (Schools plan)
• Centralized billing (Schools plan)
• Curriculum-aligned lesson slides with built-in differentiation options
• Presentation-ready slides
• Editable Google Slides
• Age-appropriate lessons for Kindergarten
• Move beyond text-only outputs for science lessons
• Ensure compliance with school standards across 23 countries
• Editable presentations for any subject
• Lesson slides generator for school teams
• AI PowerPoint generator for teachers
• AI presentation maker for teachers
• Lesson plan to slides converter
• Standards aligned lesson plan generator (Common Core & NGSS)
• TEKS aligned lesson plan generator
• AI editing of worksheets
• Unlimited activity sheet generation
• Base worksheets on existing Chalkie lessons
• Endless layouts and structures for worksheets
• Export worksheets to Google Docs, Word or PDF
• Differentiate for all learners with worksheets
• Complete and logically-sequenced unit of curriculum-aligned lessons
• Lesson slides with key vocabulary, learning objectives and activities
• Suggested sequence map for progression
• Optional worksheets and class activities
• Edit or regenerate any part of the unit or lessons with AI
• Multiple presentation themes
• Smart YouTube video suggestions
• In-lesson AI editing
• Unlimited lesson generation
• Automatically finds Youtube videos
• Wide-range of themes
• Printable worksheet and activities
• Mix of question types for worksheets (multiple-choice, short-answer, open-ended, cloze tests, gap fills)
• Tailored to State and Common Core Standards across the US
• Activities included throughout lessons based on topic, level and curriculum
• Starters, plenaries, or main group tasks
• Differentiated challenges and support variations for activities
• Activities like true-false, order, gap-fills, quizzes

Use cases

• Creating lessons and activities faster than ever before
• Planning an entire unit with lesson series, recaps, and quizzes
• Generating engaging activities to accompany lessons
• Streamlining workload for lesson planning
• Making content more engaging without spending hours on prep
• Homeschool planning
• Creating standards-based review and lessons
• Improving slide presentations with differentiated templates, fonts, and layouts
• Generating unique lessons tailored to specific topics and levels
• Aligning lessons to state standards and curriculum frameworks
• Generating lessons from scratch or using existing resources (lesson plans, files, URLs)
• Planning under time pressure
• New teachers looking for reliable, structured lesson formats
• Substitute teachers teaching subjects outside of their certification
• Department Chairs or school leadership teams building consistent department-wide planning
• Planning multiple lessons around a single topic
• School leadership teams standardizing curriculum across grade levels
• New teachers needing structured scaffolding for unit planning
• Department Chairs overseeing consistency across departments for unit planning
• Creating starter quizzes, lesson recaps, or homework
• Generating classroom-ready activities to challenge students, assess learning, and reinforce teaching
• Teachers prepping worksheets under time pressure
• New teachers looking for engaging and standards-aligned worksheets
• Substitute teachers teaching subjects outside of their certification for worksheets
• Principals, Department Chairs and Instructional Coaches increasing the quality and consistency of resources across their grade levels or departments for worksheets
• Boosting lesson engagement with activities
• New teachers building a go-to toolkit of classroom strategies for activities
• Substitute teachers or support staff planning fast and effectively for activities
• School leaders wanting consistency in lesson structure across departments, like enforcing starter activities in each lesson

AI approach

Chalkie.ai uses AI to generate educational content such as lessons, lesson series, activity sheets, and worksheets. Users provide topics, grade levels, and curriculum standards, and the AI generates curriculum-aligned, editable materials. It also includes AI editing features to adjust content and imagery.

Industries served

• Education

What it says sets it apart

• Designed with teachers for teachers
• Saves hours of planning time
• Generates unique materials every time, tailored to class based on any topic and level
• Aligns lessons to national or state standards and curriculum frameworks (e.g., Common Core, NGSS, C3)
• Flexibility to generate from scratch or use existing resources (lesson plans, files, URLs)
• Supports multiple languages (40+)
• Used in 100+ countries
• Curriculum-aligned lesson slides with built-in differentiation options
• Presentation-ready slides in seconds
• Editable Google Slides export
• Supports various grade levels (Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle School, High School)
• Creates complete, editable slideshows aligned to curriculum for science teachers
• Ensures compliance with school standards across 23 countries
• Transforms text documents into engaging, classroom-ready presentations
• Creates audit-ready TEKS aligned lesson plans
• Creates quizzes, gap fills, and differentiated tasks for worksheets
• Mix of question types for worksheets (multiple-choice, short-answer, open-ended, cloze tests, gap fills)
• Tailored to State and Common Core Standards across the US for worksheets
• Creates complete and logically-sequenced unit of curriculum-aligned lessons
• Provides suggested sequence map for progression in unit plans
• Includes starters, plenaries, or main group tasks for activities
• Offers differentiated challenges and support variations for activities

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.