# Example and Analogy Planner

Design accurate examples and useful analogies while documenting the intended teaching point, source facts, audience assumptions, and limits of every comparison.

## Usage note

Use an example or analogy to clarify one defined relationship, not to replace evidence or imply that unlike systems behave identically. Verify all factual details, label fictional examples, and state a comparison’s limit wherever a reader could reasonably carry it too far. Consequential topics require qualified subject review.

## How to use this template

1. Define the reader, prior knowledge, misconception, and one learning outcome the example must support.
2. Choose a concrete example or familiar analogy and document the factual concept it represents.
3. Map accurate correspondences, irrelevant details, failure points, and any cultural or accessibility concerns.
4. Draft the explanation with a clear fictional label or comparison limit and send it for editorial and subject review.
5. Test whether a reader can explain and transfer the principle, then revise or replace weak comparisons.

## Blank template

### Teaching goal

- **Concept:** [What needs explanation?]
- **Audience and prior knowledge:** [Who is reading?]
- **Current misconception:** [What may they assume incorrectly?]
- **Desired understanding:** [One observable outcome]
- **Why an example or analogy helps:** [Reason]
- **Risk if misunderstood:** [Consequence]

### Comparison design

- **Type:** [Concrete example / Analogy / Counterexample]
- **Source scenario:** [Familiar case or fictional setup]
- **Target concept:** [Actual subject]
- **Accurate mapping:** [Element A corresponds to element B because…]
- **Second mapping:** [Another valid relationship]
- **Where it breaks:** [Difference the reader must know]
- **Irrelevant detail to remove:** [Potential distraction]
- **Factual sources:** [Current supporting references]

### Draft and review

- **Draft setup:** [Short scenario]
- **Teaching sentence:** [State the principle directly]
- **Limit statement:** [Where the comparison no longer applies]
- **Transfer question:** [New case the reader should solve]
- [ ] The example is clearly fictional if it is invented.
- [ ] Names and details cannot be mistaken for a reported case.
- [ ] The comparison does not substitute for evidence.
- [ ] A qualified reviewer checked consequential facts.

### Test record

- **Reviewer or participant:** [Non-identifying code or role]
- **Unaided interpretation:** [What they believed]
- **Incorrect inference:** [What the example accidentally suggested]
- **Transfer result:** [Could they apply the principle?]
- **Revision:** [Specific change]
- **Decision:** [Use / Revise / Replace / Remove]