> what are lesson plans plans to you, and how to they work alongside textbooks?

Target audience: Textbook: student / Lesson plan: teacher

Type of activity it guides: Textbook: Solitary / Lesson plan: Group

Scope: Textbook: Subject / Lesson plan: Single lesson

Objective: Textbook: Comprehensive set of explanations for a broad subject / Lesson plan: Tactics for a teacher to facilitate learning

I'm not a teacher, and it has been many years since I was at school, but I see little commonality between a textbook and a lesson plan.