What every lesson plan contains
A BeyondChess lesson is one printed page for the teacher and one printed page for the student, plus an online practice link. The teacher page is a script — what to say, what to write on the board, when to pause for student response. The student page is a take-home worksheet that consolidates the lesson.
- Coach script: what to say, when to pause, what to draw on the board
- Vocabulary box with 3–5 terms students should leave with
- Step-by-step experiments (drag-the-piece prompts)
- Mixed item types: T/F, fill-in, multiple choice, short response
- CS Bridge sidebar — when chess and code overlap, we say so
- Body-check SEL reflection at the end
How the program is delivered
BeyondChess gives teachers a self-contained classroom kit: a 50-week scope-and-sequence, printable student worksheets, a play-vs-computer practice arena, tactics and mate puzzles for warm-ups, and student progress tracking. No tournament background required — the lesson plans are written for classroom teachers, not chess coaches.
- 50-week curriculum across ten developmental phases
- Two parallel tracks: Level Up (chess principles) and CHIMERA (body-metaphor SEL pairing)
- ~102 printable worksheets covering openings, middlegame, endgame, and tactics
- Online practice arena with scaffolded difficulty and AI game review
- CS Bridge worksheets that map chess concepts to coding fundamentals
Sample tracks available
Worksheets are organized by audience, not just by topic. Elementary tabs use Comic Sans-friendly typography and big diagrams. Middle School tabs use structured vocabulary boxes. CS Bridge tabs use pseudocode and sorting tables. CHIMERA tabs use body metaphors. Level Up tabs use the canonical chess principles. The same week is available across multiple tabs so a teacher can pick the right depth for their classroom.