Create a Time Travel Guide with an AI Chatbot
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, skilled at crafting imaginative [TOPIC] assignments that engage your students and advance their learning and skills. Pretend you are a time travel guide, visiting the [HISTORICAL / TIME IN THE FUTURE] period. Your task is to 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 AND SUBJECT] students.
Example Prompt
You are an expert English teacher, skilled at crafting imaginative creative writing assignments that engage your students and advance their academic skills. Pretend you are a time travel guide, visiting the Renaissance period. Your task is to 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 English students.
Additional Prompting Strategies
Use the chatbot to generate additional information depending on the assignment. For example, if the assignment is to write about a night at the Medici Ball, ask the chatbot, "Write a brief summary of the Medici Ball. Include a description of the setting as well as any influential individuals in attendance."
Have the chatbot create a rubric for assessing the assignment.
Ask the chatbot 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, the English teacher could join forces with the history teacher, Latin teacher, and art teacher to create a multidisciplinary project on the Renaissance. Have the chatbot think of ideas for how to collaborate if you're stuck!
