AI IN THE CLASSROOM
  • Home
  • AI Workshops
  • Start Kit
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • 30 DAY CHALLENGE
    • Sign Up for the Challenge
  • Book Study

AI In The Classroom Starter Kit

30 DAY AI CHALLENGE

Picture
Picture

Day Thirteen: Quick Wins

Day 13 of the 30-Day AI in the Classroom Challenge is all about quick wins. Student engagement doesn’t always require hours of planning or big projects — sometimes the most powerful moments come from short, low-prep activities that spark curiosity and give learners ownership in minutes. With the support of AI, teachers can launch engaging bell ringers with SchoolAI, run instant polls and discussions through Curipod, guide students in quick research with Perplexity.ai, or bring historical figures to life through AI voice roleplay with tools like ElevenLabs. Pair these with offline AI-generated prompts for movement or partner talk, and you’ll have a toolkit of fast, effective ways to keep students active and invested in their learning.
Daily Challenge 
As you plan your lessons, look for quick, low-prep ways to spark student engagement and ownership.
✅ SchoolAI Bell Ringers – Generate engaging warm-ups connected to today’s lesson.
✅ Curipod Polls & Word Clouds – Launch instant class discussions or gather student perspectives in seconds.
✅ Perplexity.ai Quick Research – Let students explore a question with sourced, easy-to-read answers.
✅ AI Roleplay (ElevenLabs or ChatGPT) – Bring a historian, scientist, or author to life for students to interview.
✅ Offline AI Prompts – Use ChatGPT to create discussion starters, partner “walk & talk” prompts, or quick review questions.
Goal:  
The goal is simple: keep students active, curious, and in charge of their own learning.

Daily Download

Download: Download today’s Quick Engagement Menu — a one-pager with links to these fresh AI tools.
Your browser does not support viewing this document. Click here to download the document.

Bonus AI Prompts for Choice Boards

Copy & Paste AI Prompts for Student Discourse into ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot, Grok, MagicSchool 
​AI Prompts for Quick Wins
​Bell Ringers (SchoolAI / ChatGPT)
  • “Generate 5 multiple-choice bell ringer questions for 8th-grade science on the water cycle, with one challenge question for advanced learners.”
  • “Create 3 short word problems for 5th-grade math on decimals, each increasing in difficulty.”
  • “Write a riddle-style bell ringer for high school history that introduces today’s topic: the Industrial Revolution.”
Think-Pair-Share / Discussion Starters (Curipod / ChatGPT)
  • “Generate 10 think-pair-share prompts for middle school ELA students about character motivation in novels.”
  • “Write 5 quick discussion questions about photosynthesis that encourage students to explain in their own words.”
  • “Create 8 open-ended prompts for a classroom debate on digital citizenship and social media use.”
Roleplay / Interview (ElevenLabs / ChatGPT)
  • “Roleplay as Galileo explaining why he believed the Earth revolved around the sun. Answer student questions in first-person.”
  • “Pretend you are a journalist interviewing Harriet Tubman. Provide both the questions and sample answers.”
  • “Act as a cell biologist and explain, in simple terms, how mitochondria function inside the cell.”
Quick Research (Perplexity.ai / ChatGPT)
  • “Summarize 3 credible sources explaining why bees are essential for ecosystems, written for a 7th-grade audience.”
  • “Find 5 key facts about renewable energy that high school students could use to create an infographic.”
  • “Generate a 2-paragraph summary comparing democracy in ancient Athens and the U.S. today.”
Offline Engagement (AI-Generated Prompts)
  • “Write 10 partner ‘Walk & Talk’ questions for 4th-grade social studies on U.S. regions.”
  • “Create 5 hands-on review games for practicing multiplication facts without using worksheets.”
  • “Generate 6 movement-based activities for high school students to review vocabulary terms (charades, matching, team challenges).”
Extra Credit / Student-Led
  • “Generate 5 sample exit ticket prompts students could choose from at the end of a lesson on ecosystems.”
  • “Create a short challenge where students use AI to design their own bell ringer for tomorrow’s class.”
  • “Suggest 3 creative ways students could demonstrate understanding of the causes of World War I in under 5 minutes.”
Click Here To Read The Blog Post

Follow Along

Social Media Post
Follow along on Social Media with our hashtag #Kish30DayAIChallenge

​Direct Links to our Social Media Platforms
  • Follow on Instagram
  • Follow on X (Twitter)
  • Follow on Facebook
  • Connect on LinkedIn

Sign Up for Emails

Get the 30 Day Challenge Delivered directly to your InBox.  Complete this form and we will send you a daily email for the 30 Day Challenge. 
Fill Out This Form

Day Twelve: Student Discourse

Day Fourteen: Personalized Learning

AI In The Classroom with Marcia Kish 
​
#Kish30DayAIChallenge

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • AI Workshops
  • Start Kit
  • Resources
  • Blog
  • 30 DAY CHALLENGE
    • Sign Up for the Challenge
  • Book Study