Today I: Created a prompt flow

[My flow is still not exact, this is what I created today and will refine over the next week.]

In a few weeks I am giving a presentation about AI to some current and retired teachers at my wife’s school.

Here is a few things I came up with so far using ChatGPT. This is a draft of a chain of prompts I am thinking of using. I have them numbered, after each output from the AU I add the next prompt to keep building towards a better end result. The first prompt is what we usually google to find lesson idea, it isn’t a very good prompt but I keep adding to build towards something amazing. I plan on doing this live so they can see the progression in action.

I added only one screenshot as an example.

#1 Lessons for second grade to compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

The output is pretty long, the AI created a short unit in a matter of seconds.

My original prompt isn’t super great, so I refined it a bit. I added the bolded part and reran the prompt. By adding more context, who you are and level of experience, helps tune the output.

#2 I am a second grade teacher with 24 years of experience teaching in St. Louis, MO. I need a lesson for this priority standard – Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

For the 3rd prompt I added a little more information to help tune the output even further.

#3 –  I am a second grade teacher with 24 years of experience teaching in St. Louis, MO. I have 24 students in my classroom. Each student has an ipad so I want to add some simple, but impactful, technology into my lessons. I need a lesson for this priority standard – Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

The fourth time I added what I think is the most critical. In many elementary classrooms science is a super difficult subject to squeeze in. I love showing teachers with just 20 minutes a day you can hit your priority standards.

#4 I am a second grade teacher with 24 years of experience teaching in St. Louis, MO. I have 24 students in my classroom. Each student has an ipad so I want to add some simple, but impactful, technology into my lessons. I typically only have 20 minutes a day, at most, to teach science. I need to take this priority standard and create a week long unit adhering to my tight time constraints. I need a lesson for this priority standard – Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land.

I just added this in to help show people you can ask the AI to expand on just one part of output.

#5 Can you give me more detail on day 2? I have a student who does not speak any english and one who has a 504 for adhd.

Add your proficiency scales directly into the AI. If you paste it in, what you see is a jumble of words that don’t make sense. The whole formatting changes, the AI does not care and it can make sense of it all.

#6 I also need help creating an assessment based upon this proficiency scale – [I would copy/paste the scale directly into the AI.]

What I hope is this simple 12 minute experiment will show the power of using AI to help plan and expand the classroom experience around topics like science.