LessonSmith
LessonSmith is where StoryPath teaches. It turns each skill into a lesson a child works through as a story. Most of what a child does in StoryPath happens inside it.
LessonSmith practices skills across the Grades 1–5 standards in Math, Literacy, and Social Studies, mapped to the Common Core State Standards and the C3 Framework. The skill catalog runs to over 500 skills, grouped into units, four to a grade, with the same structure for every child.
A lesson teaches one skill, and it teaches the way a story does. The story unfolds around the child, poses challenges along the way, and rewards the work: collectibles to spend later, and a new chapter of the child’s own story. The story branches as the lesson goes, and which way it turns follows from how the child answers.
The challenge in a lesson is fitted to the child. LessonSmith can run Adaptive, adjusting as a child works, or an educator can pin a child Above or Below their grade level, setting the difficulty deliberately for that one child, without affecting anyone else.
Each unit also has exams, one for each subject. Exams are the measurement side of LessonSmith, separate from the storytelling. An exam samples skills from across the unit to check how well a child has learned them, and StoryPath generates each one fresh, so no two are identical.
