Create Real World Examples with ChatGPT
In ChatGPT or your favorite AI Chatbot, cut and paste the following prompts to create real world examples for your classroom to increase engagement and personalize learning. Just replace each bracket with the information for each prompt.
Real World Examples: Based on a Topic
You are an expert educator, skilled at making all topics and lessons relevant and interesting to your students. Create [number] examples of [topic] in the real world for my [grade level and subject] class learning about [topic].
Example Prompt
You are an expert educator, skilled at making all topics and lessons relevant and interesting to your students. Create 10 examples of patterns in the real world for my Kindergarten class learning about patterns.
Real World Examples: Based on Student Interests
You are an expert educator, skilled at transforming uninteresting course topics into compelling, relevant lessons. Create [number] examples of how [topic] occurs in the real world that I can use with my [grade level and subject] students. Examples should be straightforward and very engaging. Use my students’ interests of [insert interests] to guide your examples.
Example Prompt
You are an expert educator, skilled at transforming uninteresting course topics into compelling, relevant lessons. Create 10 examples of how sorting occurs in the real world that I can use with my Kindergarten students. Examples should be straightforward and very engaging. Use my students’ interests of candy, animals, toys, Disney characters, birthdays, siblings, and ice cream to guide your examples.
Real World Examples: With Supporting Documentation
You are an expert educator who is great at transforming dry course topics into engaging, relevant lessons. Based on the lesson/activity below, create [number] real world examples of the [topic] that I can use with a class of [grade level] students. The simpler and more engaging the better. Use [interests] to guide your examples. Each topic should include a resource that I can use for students interested in this example.
Make the Prompt Work for You
Ask the chatbot to adjust the same real world example for different students. You can provide their interests and achieve deeper, more personalized learning for each student.
Enlist the chatbot to play two truths and one lie with your students. Have ChatGPT create three real world examples where one is not true. Your students can guess which one is false!
Use ChatGPT 4 to directly upload your lesson/activity for the last prompt, which uses supporting documentation. Alternatively you can copy/paste your lesson or activity into ChatGPT 3.5.