Better prompts = better results
The quality of your question determines the quality of the answer.
"Prompt Battle": Teacher shows two prompts for the same task. Students predict which gets the better result. Teacher reveals both AI responses live.
Prompt challenge tournament (teacher-mediated — under-13 safe): students write the best possible prompt for each of 5 tasks and submit them through the lesson's Teacher AI Station. The teacher runs the prompts and returns the outputs; students evaluate each (1-5 stars with a reason), then iterate once by submitting an improved prompt. Tasks: (1) Help me understand photosynthesis, (2) Give me 10 ideas for a school campaign poster, (3) Check my argument in this paragraph [their own writing], (4) Create 5 quiz questions on the Roman Empire, (5) Help me plan my revision timetable. Record all prompts and returned outputs in their AI Log.
Share the best prompt they wrote today. Class decides what makes it great. Add "great prompt features" to a shared class document.
Core AI skill — this lesson alone changes how students use AI forever. All prompts are run by the teacher via the Teacher AI Station, so under-13 students learn prompt engineering without using a live AI service themselves.
AI Log with 5 prompt/output/evaluation/iteration cycles
Write 3 RCTF prompts for something useful in your life (homework help, meal ideas, career research). For each, predict what a strong response would include and note how you would improve the prompt. You can run them at the Teacher AI Station next lesson.
RCTF prompt frame with sentence starters for each element
Research "chain-of-thought prompting" and test it on a maths problem. Write up findings.