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Teacher Prompt Library
Reviewed, classroom-ready AI prompt templates
Every template uses the SATHI structure with marked variables, a filled example, its review requirements and its privacy note. Teacher review before classroom use is always required.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Apply the test: does the story fail without the concept?
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Concept as decoration — the story-fails-without-it test · Moralising last line sneaks in
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Creative writing task with productive constraints
Constraints that spark originality instead of limiting it.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. The no-model-answer rule protects originality — resist adding one.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: A 'sample' creeps in — the local-anchor + no-model rules are the safeguards
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Cross-age teaching project (older students make for younger)
Older students design learning materials for a younger class — authentic audience.
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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Frame too prescriptive about the product — format choice is the students' design decision
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Debate kit with asymmetric briefing packs
A contestable motion with different evidence per side — argument becomes necessary.
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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Verify both packs' evidence against the textbook; check the packs genuinely differ.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Symmetric packs — the flop rebuilt; check evidence differs · Motions touching student identity — forbidden
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Design challenge with trade-off constraints
Constraints that force choices; testable success criteria; reflection on trade-offs.
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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Criteria that need teacher opinion — 'testable' means measurable
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Gallery/museum walk with artefact cards
Stations of source/artefact cards with observation prompts — analysis on foot.
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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Verify any textbook-based source against the book; label fictional sources as fictional.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Invented 'historical sources' presented as real — fictional must be labelled
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 minFree
Inquiry stimulus pack (scenario + anomaly + open questions)
Start an investigation without resolving it — conclusions forbidden.
Template
Class {{CLASS}} {{SUBJECT}}, topic {{TOPIC}}. Produce an inquiry stimulus pack: a one-page fictional scenario, a data table with ONE planted anomaly ({{ANOMALY_HINT}}), and three genuinely open investigation questions. NO conclusions, no explanation of the anomaly, no model answers anywhere in the output. Fictional setting only. Tell me where you were most tempted to explain too much.
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Class 8 Science + Geography, topic river pollution. A one-page scenario about the fictional town of Nadipur, a monthly water-quality table with one planted anomaly (a festival month), three open questions. No conclusions anywhere. Tell me where you were tempted to explain.
Illustrative: the scenario and table with October's oxygen dip unexplained; the I-note admits removing a hint from question 2.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held. Check the anomaly is discoverable by a student at this class level.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Answers leak into the questions — audit with the I-slot confession · Anomaly too subtle for the class level
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Investigable vs non-investigable question sort
Teach students what makes a question testable — with a sorting deck.
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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Categories printed on the cards — the sort must be the students' thinking
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~5 min Premium
One-pager synthesis task (visual + verbal)
End-of-unit synthesis on a single page mixing sketch, quote and connection.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: 'Artistic quality' sneaks into criteria — completeness and own-words only
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Project frame (driving question to exhibition)
The full PBL frame: question, milestones, roles, criteria, exhibition.
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Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Driving question too broad to own — it should fit in one sentence a student would say
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Simulation with private role sheets and scenario clock
A decision-rich role-play with timed injects and a debrief that lands the learning.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Roles with no real decisions — private sheets must create genuine tension · Debrief dropped for time — it IS the lesson
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~5 minFree
Socratic question ladder (questions only)
Five questions from observation to principle, no answers included.
Template
Class {{CLASS}} {{SUBJECT}}, concept: {{CONCEPT}}. A five-question Socratic ladder from concrete observation to underlying principle: question 1 asks what students can directly observe/recall; each later question requires the previous answer; question 5 reaches the principle. QUESTIONS ONLY — no answers, no hints in brackets. Plus one line for me: where students most often get stuck on this ladder.
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Class 7 Science, concept: why ice floats. A five-question ladder from observation to principle, questions only, plus the likely sticking point.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Later questions answerable without the earlier ones — the chain must be real
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~5 min Premium
Structured brainstorm protocol (quantity before judgement)
A class ideation session with rules that protect wild ideas.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Protocol collapses into open discussion — the phases and script keep structure
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~10 min Premium
Teach-back activity design (students as explainers)
Students prepare and deliver a micro-lesson to peers — deepest practice there is.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: Planning card so detailed it writes the explanation — cards prompt, never script
Creative & inquiryPractitioner ~5 min Premium
What-if scenario set for discussion
Counterfactuals that stretch understanding beyond the textbook case.
The full template and filled example are available with a premium plan.
Review: Check the output contains NO conclusions or model answers where students must think; fictionalise any real-community setting; verify the stops-here line held.
Privacy: Never include student names, identifiable marks, health, family or community details. Describe situations and needs, never children.
Known failure modes: What-ifs needing untaught content — 'answerable from the taught concept' is the boundary
All example outputs are illustrative teaching fictions. AI drafts; the teacher remains responsible for accuracy, fairness, privacy and classroom fit.