Model lessons your future teachers can actually teach.
You prepare the next generation of teachers. We build the complete, standards-aligned, hands-on lessons they need to study, adapt, and practice — integrated across subjects, current on AI and computing, and ready to run without a cart of devices. Use them in your methods course, and send every candidate into the field with a library that works.
41 lessons across 8 subject areas · standards-aligned · built by active teacher-preparation researchers
Candidates are taught to design integrated lessons. They rarely get to hold a whole one.
Methods courses run on theory, fragments, and the occasional dated exemplar. Textbook units lag years behind the classroom, and the topics that matter most next — AI literacy, computational thinking, computing woven into every subject — barely appear at all. So candidates learn the principles of good design without ever teaching a lesson that fully embodies them.
Our lessons close that gap. Each one is a finished, field-tested model of the design you're asking candidates to master: a clear instructional arc, honest standards alignment, active participation by design, and a forward-looking idea at its core. Small tell, lots of do — for your candidates and, eventually, for their students.
Four ways teacher educators use the library
Model lessons
Every lesson is a complete, standards-aligned exemplar of integrated, hands-on design — the kind candidates are told to build but rarely get to study whole. Assign one, then have your class name what makes it work.
Practice reps
Candidates rehearse teaching on a lesson that already runs — microteaching, peer feedback in trios, and a real artifact for the placement folder. They practice on something that works instead of debugging their own first draft.
Framework literacy
Each lesson maps to CSTA, CCSS, NGSS, ISTE, C3, and Core Arts, and follows one predictable instructional structure. Candidates learn to read standards and a research-backed design framework by working inside a real one.
Forward-looking content
AI literacy, computational thinking, and computing woven into every subject — the topics your candidates will be expected to teach, ready before the mandates land. No devices required for the core.
Built by people who do this work.
Freyja Labs was founded by a STEM-education scholar who directs a school of teacher education at a major research university and has led multiple NSF-funded studies of teacher preparation, together with an engineering educator and hardware-security researcher. These lessons are the product of that pairing — rigorous pedagogy and genuine technical depth, informed by a peer-reviewed instructional-design framework the founders developed. It's the exact combination a methods course needs and rarely finds in one place.
Equip a whole cohort at once.
Give every teacher candidate access to the full library through a program license tied to your institution's email domain — no individual signups to manage. Faculty get the reuse-and-remix license to adapt lessons for their courses, and candidates keep the free monthly drop after they graduate, so the toolkit follows them into their first classroom. We can bundle a license with a guest session or PD for your program.
- ✓ Full library for every candidate in the cohort
- ✓ Reuse & remix license for course faculty
- ✓ Domain-based access — no per-student admin
- ✓ Candidates keep the free drop after graduation
Common questions
Who is this for?
Faculty who teach methods and curriculum courses, field supervisors, and educator preparation programs (EPPs) that want current, classroom-ready exemplars of integrated, hands-on lesson design for their teacher candidates.
Can I use these lessons in my methods course?
Yes. The Advanced plan gives you the full library to teach from, and the Premium (program) plan adds a reuse-and-remix license so you can adapt a lesson and share your version with the candidates in your course or program.
How do my teacher candidates get access?
Every candidate can subscribe free to the monthly Unplugged Drop and keep it after they graduate. For full-library access across a cohort or department, we set up a program license tied to your institution’s email domain — the same mechanism districts use — so every candidate is covered without individual signups.
What does a cohort or department license cost?
It depends on cohort size and term length, and it can be bundled with a PD or guest-teaching engagement for your program. Tell us your program and headcount and we’ll scope it with you.