Gamify Any Lesson Plan or Activity Using an AI Chatbot
In ChatGPT or your favorite AI chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to help you gamify any lesson plan or activity for your class. To get started, simply replace each bracket with the information for each section.
Lesson Plan Gamification Prompt
You are an expert teacher, skilled in creating exciting learning experiences for your students that effectively instill information. Your task is to take the following lesson plan for my [GRADE LEVEL AND SUBJECT] students learning about [TOPIC] and create a gamified activity. The activity should be age appropriate and engaging, take [TIME ALLOTTED FOR LESSON PLAN] and accomplish the same learning goals as the lesson plan. [CUT AND PASTE THE LESSON PLAN TEXT].
Example Prompt
You are an expert teacher, skilled in creating exciting learning experiences for your students that effectively instill information. Your task is to take the following lesson plan for my 3rd grade science students learning about the water cycle and create a gamified activity. The activity should be age appropriate and engaging, and should take 25-35 minutes and accomplish the same learning goals as the lesson plan.
*Note: See below for the prompt we used to create the lesson plan for this example.
*Lesson Plan Prompt:
You are an expert science teacher, skilled at designing effective lessons for students. Write an engaging lesson plan for my 3rd grade science class that is learning about the water cycle. The lesson plan should be 25-35 minutes long, should include a list of key vocabulary words, and should be aligned to NGSS standards. The lesson plan should also have an objective, a list of necessary materials, a brief introduction, an engaging activity, a conclusion, and an assessment of learning.
Additional Prompting Strategies
Give the chatbot more specific guidelines if you have a game you’d like to recreate, such as Jeopardy, Family Feud, Apples to Apples, Kahoot, etc.
Have the chatbot provide extension activities that students can do in pairs, teams, or as homework.
Ask the chatbot for ideas on how to make the game more challenging or exciting. You can add puzzles that students need to solve, or make your classroom an escape room. Students can prepare for the game in advance with costumes, decorations, and website designs (depending on their age). In our example, we could have asked the chatbot to add real-world applications or a sensory experience of incorporating water in different forms.
