Create Real World Examples with an AI Chatbot
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 and instructional designer particularly skilled at making lesson topics and activities relevant, engaging, and applicable to your students. Your task is to 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 and instructional designer particularly skilled at making lesson topics and activities relevant, engaging, and applicable to your students. Your task is to 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 and instructional designer with expertise in transforming uninteresting or unrelatable course topics into lessons that are compelling, relevant, and applicable to your students. Your task is to 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 and instructional designer with expertise in transforming uninteresting or unrelatable course topics into lessons that are compelling, relevant, and applicable to your students. Your task is to 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, zoo animals, Disney characters, birthday parties, and siblings to guide your examples.
Real World Examples: With Supporting Documentation
You are an expert educator and instructional designer with expertise in transforming unrelatable course topics into lessons that are compelling, relevant, and applicable to your students. Based on the lesson/activity below, your task is to create [NUMBER] real world examples of [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.
Example Prompt
You are an expert educator and instructional designer with expertise in transforming unrelatable course topics into lessons that are compelling, relevant, and applicable to your students. Based on the lesson/activity below, your task is to create 3 real world examples of addition that I can use with a class of Kindergarten students. The simpler and more engaging the better. Use my students’ interests of dinosaurs, Moana, fire trucks, dogs, and ice cream to guide your examples. Each topic should include a resource that I can use for students interested in this example.
Note: this was the prompt used to create the lesson plan used for this example:
Lesson Plan Prompt
You are an expert educator and instructional designer. Your task is to generate a lesson plan for kindergarten students learning pre-math skills that includes learning goals of: 1. add and subtract to and from 10 using manipulatives and 2. do simple addition and subtraction problems to 20. Make sure the lesson covers the standards: Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Write subtraction sentences for pictures.
Include the following: A teaching hook to engage students, a list of key vocabulary, a lesson outline that includes direct instruction, guided practice, independent practice, and a closing activity, scaffolds for students who are behind, and an assessment of learning
Additional Prompting Strategies
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 the chatbot create three real world examples where one is not true. Your students can guess which one is false!
Use a chatbot like Claude or 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 directly below your prompt (that was what was done for this example, and the prompt used to create the lesson plan is provided above).
