Create a Multi-Disciplinary Unit Plan with an AI Chatbot
In ChatGPT or your favorite AI Chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to create a multi-disciplinary unit plan. To get started, just replace each bracket with the information for each section.
Multi-Disciplinary Unit Plan
You are an expert STEM educator and instructional designer with expertise in crafting well-developed units that effectively incorporate multiple subjects. Your task is to develop an interdisciplinary unit for my [GRADE LEVEL] students that integrates these standards: [SPECIFIC STANDARDS] for my [SUBJECT] class. The unit should be [NUMBER] days, and each lesson should be [NUMBER] minutes long. Then your task is to create an outline for each lesson plan that utilizes [PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK]. In the unit plan, include objectives for the unit and each lesson, any materials needed, formative assessments for each lesson, and a final project.
Example Prompt
You are an expert STEM educator and instructional designer with expertise in crafting well-developed units that effectively incorporate multiple subjects. Your task is to develop an interdisciplinary unit for my 8th grade students that integrates these standards:
8.EE.B.5: “Graph proportional relationships, interpreting the unit rate as the slope of the graph. Compare two different proportional relationships represented in different ways.” and
MS-PS3-1: “Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object.”
This is for my physical science class. The unit should be 5 days, and each lesson should be 45 minutes long. Then your task is to create an outline for each lesson plan that utilizes the 5E instructional model. In the unit plan, include objectives for the unit and each lesson, any materials needed, formative assessments for each lesson, and a final project.
Additional Prompting Strategies
Add a NASA exploration to the lesson.
Add an engineering design challenge to the elaborate section of the lesson.
Ask the chatbot to include any scaffolds or modifications for individualized learning in your classroom.
The more specific that you can be, the better. If you have parameters and/or ideas for the formative assessments and the final project, include those.
About this prompt
An integrated STEM/STEAM approach to teaching suggests that educators consider authentic real-world connections to disciplinary topics that are often taught in silos instead of meaningfully connected in real world contexts. The STEM/STEAM approach removes artificial barriers to integration to provide engaging and interesting connections for students to learn science, math, technology, engineering, the arts, and more!
The Endeavor STEM Teaching Certificate Project supports educators in developing student-centered interdisciplinary connections across content areas, using NASA missions and exploration as engaging contexts. For example, we can use AI to jumpstart these creative connections and plan lessons that excite students about STEM!
