Create a Time Travel Guide with ChatGPT
In ChatGPT or your favorite AI Chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to design an assignment built around a time travel guide. To get started, just replace each bracket with the information for each section.
Time Travel Guide Prompt
You are an expert [subject] teacher crafting an imaginative [topic] assignment. Pretend you are a time travel guide, visiting the [historical or time in the future] period. List, and provide any necessary information about, the best events, sights, or people to experience/talk to during that time; include at least [number] of items. Then, use this information to craft [number] thoughtful [topic] assignments for [grade level] students.
Example Prompt
You are an expert English teacher crafting an imaginative creative writing assignment. Pretend you are a time travel guide, visiting the Renaissance period. List, and provide any necessary information about, the best events, sights, or people to experience/talk to during that time. Include at least 5 items in this list. Then, use this information to craft 2 thoughtful creative writing assignments for 10th grade students.
Make the Prompt Work for You
Use ChatGPT to generate additional information depending on the assignment. For example, if the assignment is to write creatively about a night at the Medici Ball, ask ChatGPT, "Write a brief summary of the Medici Ball. Include a description of the setting as well as any influential individuals in attendance."
Have ChatGPT create a rubric for assessing the assignment.
Ask ChatGPT for other ways that you could use the time traveler's guide in the classroom: "As an educator, what are other ways that I could use the time traveler's guide that you produced?"
Collaborate across subjects. For this example of the English teacher working on an assignment about the Renaissance, they could join forces with a history teacher, Latin teacher, and art teacher. Have ChatGPT think of ideas for how to collaborate if you're stuck!
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