====== Writing A Lesson ======

=====Start your own lesson=====

Welcome to the lesson-writing section of PEN! This is where you can contribute to our curriculum by writing lessons that will be used by people all over the world. 

You might be recording a lesson you've already taught many times, or you might be starting completely from scratch. In either case, we suggest you take a look at:

    * [[:lessons|lessons we're currently developing]] - get an idea of what sort of lessons we already have
    *  [[:background|background units]] that exist. These are short explanations of concepts or experiments that could be useful for you.
    * our [[:docs:lesson.philosophy|lesson philosophy]] - see what we're trying to focus on in PEN lessons
    * Have a look at some PEN [[lessons:teaching.tips|teaching tips]] to get advice and ideas for activities and structuring lessons.

<fs medium>**Ready to write a lesson? [[add:stage.0|Click here!]]**</fs>


=====Help us write existing curricula=====

Our main focus right now is the Solar Photovoltaic Curriculum.  You can contribute to this by:


    * **doing research and/or sharing knowledge or activity ideas**  for lessons currently in stage 0.
    * **creating a lesson outline**  (stage 1) for any stage 0 lesson that has lots of information (think about how long the lesson might be - you might want to split it into two or even more lessons at this point)
    * **testing activities or experiments**  listed in stage 1 lessons to make sure they work as expected - share your results!
    * **write**  the next stage for any lesson that is at stage 1 or higher and has feedback.  Refer to the [[:lesson.stages|explanation of stages]] to see what each stage should focus on.
If you'd rather think about other topics, you can also: