Choose a lesson that you commonly use in classroom instruction or one that you are extremely comfortable with. Before creating a lesson plan from scratch that implements your state's standards and benchmarks, you can simply adapt a lesson that you know very well. This will help you recognize how you already use educational standards and benchmarks in your classroom so that in the future you can adapt these tools to entirely new lessons.
Determine the standards that you hold for your students in regards to the lesson you are focusing on. Then, look through your state's educational standards to see whether your standard is the same as or closely related to the state standard or benchmark. Chances are your expectations for your students will be very similar. If not, reevaluate your standards for your students and attempt to match your standards to the state's.
Create a way to test your students to determine whether or not they have achieved the standard and implement this test into your lesson plan. The test can be in the form of a pop quiz, a graded exam or even a fun group activity. Get creative here. Instead of always using a test or pop quiz to test the standard, throw in a fun game that still offers a measurable way to test your students' understanding of a concept.
Build upon the lesson in your next lesson plan if your students have not mastered the standard or benchmark you have chosen to focus on. If your students mastered a benchmark, move on to the next related benchmark and create a new lesson plan revolving around this task.