Lesson planning is a way of thinking through the lesson you are going to teach, to anticipate its course, support student learning and prepare yourself and the materials you'll need. When you are planning your own lessons, you will want to customize your lesson planning tools to suit your needs (and those of your sponsoring teachers and faculty associate).
You will probably need to do more elaborated written lesson plans in your earliest years of teaching. Once you have developed your own repertoire of successful lessons, you will likely abbreviate your written plans so that they are reminders and organizational structures to keep yourself on track.
Aside from the BOOPPPS format, you can find many other lesson planning aids online -- for example, there are many useful ones available at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/fieldexperiences/nav02.cfm?nav02=25948&nav01=25859 . A google search will reveal hundreds of other options.
Choose one or two that seem almost right for you -- and then customize until you have a template that meets your particular needs. You will need to address some basic questions in any lesson plan:
•what are you trying to achieve? How will you know if it's working?
•what activities will you and the students undertake?
•how do you foresee the timing of the lesson working?
•what do you anticipate happening during the lesson?
•what materials will you need?
•how to start and finish the lesson?
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