Now, discover how AI can help enhance your lessons and activities in creative ways. You will discover specific use cases including updating existing activities, applying different instructional strategies, and adding decorative images. In addition, you’ll access a prompt library with templates you can use to enhance future lessons.
Get creative with AI
Recently, you learned about how you can use AI tools to modify existing class materials to differentiate instruction based on individual student’s needs. This included personalizing learning materials, developing engaging activities, and automating tasks. In a similar way, you can use AI tools to help you get creative with your lessons and activities!
Update activity relevance
Making connections boosts engagement and makes lessons more accessible. You can do this by reworking a lesson example to include interesting references to pop culture, sports, or music — or by applying course content to other subjects, such as connecting what students are reading in literature class to what they are learning about in history. AI tools can help you make these kinds of updates quickly.
Apply instructional strategies
AI tools can help you adapt lessons and activities by applying a different teaching strategy. Whether that’s modifying a lesson to include more opportunities for cooperative learning or redesigning an activity to focus on inquiry-based investigation, AI tools can help you adapt lessons and activities by applying a different strategy to your existing plans.
Create images for instructional materials
Sometimes it can be challenging to add visual interest to your class materials. Use an AI tool to help you generate engaging visuals. Note, however, that images created by AI tools may not accurately communicate complex concepts or details, so they should primarily be used for decoration.
Prompts for creative enhancements
Now that you are more familiar with how AI tools can help you enhance your existing teaching materials in creative ways, explore some ideas you could use. Just as in the previous lessons, each of the following templates offers two options: a detailed version to help the AI tool provide a highly targeted output, and a shorter, simpler prompt.
Generate engaging examples prompt — short version
| I am a [Enter your role]. Generate five examples for a [Enter grade level] class about [Enter subject] using famous sports players. The examples should help students achieve [Enter learning objectives]. |
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Bonus ideas
Here are some bonus ideas for generating examples that are relevant to student interests:
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Appeal to different students’ interests by prompting for different topics in the examples.
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Incorporate specific problems or instructions you already drafted in your prompt so the AI tool can incorporate them.
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Exclude topics you do not want to focus on in your generated examples.
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Apply instructional strategies prompt
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I am a [Enter your role]. Based on the following details, create an activity for [Enter grade] students studying [Enter class topic] that uses [Enter instructional strategy]. Materials: [Paste in textbook chapters or sections, lecture notes, handouts, or other relevant resources] Reading level: [State the desired reading level for the review activity] Learning objectives:
Format: [Specify the desired format, such as bullet points, a timeline, a comparison chart, etc.] |
Apply instructional strategies prompt — short version
| I am a [Enter your role]. Create an activity for [Enter grade] students studying [Enter class topic] that uses [Enter instructional strategy]. The activity instructions should be written at a [Enter reading level] and accomplish [Enter learning objectives]. Format the activity in [Enter desired format]. |
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Bonus ideas
Here are some bonus ideas for applying teaching strategies:
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Include assessments for evaluating student understanding.
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Ask the AI tool to expand on any activities you are interested in using.
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Generate exit tickets prompt
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I am a [Enter your role]. Based on the following details, create [number] exit ticket activities and questions for the end of my class: Subject: [Enter subject] Grade level: [Enter grade level] Materials: [Paste in a summary of topics covered in the class, lecture notes, handouts, or other relevant resources]
Learning objectives:
These activities and questions should be concise and assess students’ understanding of the lesson material. |
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Generate exit tickets prompt — short version
I am a [Enter your role]. Create [number] exit ticket activities for the last [number] minutes of a [Enter grade level and subject] class. Exit activities should be based on the following material: [Paste in a summary of topics covered in the class, lecture notes, handouts, or other relevant resources].
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Bonus ideas
Here are some bonus ideas for generating exit tickets:
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Adjust the difficulty of the exit ticket ideas based on your students’ needs. You can ask for more or less challenging ideas.
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Include the specific format you use for exit tickets in your classroom.
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Add graphics to your worksheets prompt
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I am a [Enter your role]. Based on the following details, create [number] images for a presentation about [Enter topic]: Subject: [Enter subject] Grade level: [Enter grade level] Style: [Enter illustration style] Materials: [Paste in textbook chapters or sections, lecture notes, handouts, or other relevant resources]
Learning objectives:
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Add graphics to your worksheets prompt — short version
I am a [Enter your role]. Create [number] images for a presentation about [Enter topic] that will be shared with a [Enter grade level and subject] class. Images should be [Enter illustration style].
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Bonus ideas
Here are some bonus ideas for generating images:
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Add age restrictions to ensure you are creating appropriate images for your students
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Experiment with different art styles
Story starters prompt
I am a [Enter your role]. Based on the following information, create a story starter for students to use that aligns with the learning objective:
Subject: [Enter subject]
Grade level: [Enter grade level]
Learning objective: [Specify the learning objective that the story starter should align with]
Specific theme, setting, or context: [Provide details about the story’s setting, time period, and genre]
Plot elements: [Provide some hints or suggestions about the plot of the story, but leave room for creativity]
Tone and style: [Indicate the desired tone and style of the story, such as serious, humorous, suspenseful, etc.)
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Story starters prompt — short version
| I am a [Enter your role]. Create a story starter for [Enter grade level and subject] students that focuses on [Enter learning objectives]. The story should include these details: [Enter specific about theme, setting, context, or plot]. It should be written with [Enter tone and style]. |
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Bonus ideas
Here are some bonus ideas for collaborative storytelling, genre exploration, and problem-solving:
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Create a lesson that involves dividing the class into groups and having them write collaboratively to foster teamwork, communication, and creative thinking.
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Write a variety of story starters based on different genres (mystery, historical fiction, fantasy) related to the learning objective.
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Design story starters that present real-world challenges related to the learning objective, prompting students to use their knowledge and creativity to develop solutions through storytelling.
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