TeacherMade

AI PREP RALLY – November 17, 2024 Edition

Laura Bresko — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:54:44 +0000

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November 10th edition.

TeacherMade
is Getting a
New Name:
Classwork.Studio

Over the next four weeks, you’ll start to see TeacherMade’s name evolve to Classwork.Studio! Our commitment to supporting teachers is stronger than ever, and this new name reflects all the ways our platform is growing to serve you better.

Within a few weeks, our district-level features will go live, hence the name change to Classwork.Studio! We’re working hard to make this change as smooth as possible, so you can keep doing what you do best without interruption.

Keep an eye out for notices in the app , via email, and on social media. Thank you for being part of this journey!

Boom! Generate Content!

This week, we’re spotlighting a brand-new upgrade to our Content Assistant—now you can generate passages and questions right within TeacherMade.

Simply set your parameters—like grade level, subject, question type, and number of questions—and TeacherMade will generate content, ready to review and edit as you like. (As always, remember to check any AI content for accuracy.) This tool is here to save you time and effort while crafting high-quality assignments.

Get ready to streamline your lesson prep even further with TeacherMade’s AI-driven features!

With the launch of the Content Assistant, you can now use our AI to make content in TeacherMade, just like we’ve been doing for weeks!! There are now two ways to do it: Generate content or import/paste in any content.

Generating content will create brand new materials that are delivered in TeacherMade format. The correct answers are already present; once reviewed, the content is ready to assign to your students with no additional preparation.

Importing/pasting in content has a wide variety of uses. You can generate content on ChatGPT, Magic School, or some other site. But when you use those sites, all you get is text. You still have to format it and deliver it to your students. When you take that generated text and paste it into TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Import/Paste screen, it will be automatically turned into an interactive, autograded file ready for your classes.

But here’s the bonus: you can also paste in text from anywhere! Do you already have quizzes and practice sheets in Google Docs? Copy the text and paste it in. The Content Assistant will turn it into a TeacherMade for you! Talk about saving time!!

Thanksgiving Table Trouble!

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Grade: 4

Subject: Math

Standard: TEKS 4.4H (Solve with fluency one- and two-step problems involving multiplication and division, including interpreting remainders)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Auto generate new content

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

Open a new blank activity in “Slide View” in TeacherMade. Click the green “Content Assistant (NEW)” button.
Select the “Create Passage or Text” button under “Auto generate new content.”
Enter the grade level, subject, and genre for your passage. (We chose “Informational” because we want to set up a scenario for problems). In the “Topic” box, we asked it to write a brief introduction for an activity to assess multi-step multiplication and division using Thanksgiving tables and chairs.
Read over the passage and make any edits in the Content Assistant window. Then click “Add Passage.”
When the Content Assistant asks if you want to create questions for the passage, select “Yes.”
On the next page, fill out the form with how many of each kind of question you want it to make. (We asked it for some multiple choice and math questions.) Click the “Generate Questions” button.
THOROUGHLY check the problems and answers to ensure that they are correct. Click the check boxes beside the questions you want to use and then click “Add Questions” when you are finished.
TeacherMade’s Content Assistant creates slides with your passage and questions. After reviewing and adding your finishing touches, it’s ready to use!

Thanksgiving Unplugged

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Grade: 5

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 5.9C (Explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions.)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Generate Passage and Questions

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

Go to TeacherMade and open a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Click on the green “Content Assistant (NEW)” button.
Choose the “Create Passage or Text” button under “Auto generate new content.”
Fill in all of the fields on the left. (We chose to create a drama for 4th graders.) In the topic box, you can explain a little about what you want your passage to be about. We chose a Thanksgiving theme and also included some wording from our standard to make sure our questions would assess the standard. (We’ll get to those in a second!) Click “Generate Passage.”
Read over your passage. If you like what you see, click “Add Passage.” It will then ask if you want to create questions to go with your passage. Click “Yes.”
Fill in the fields on the left including which question types you’d like to create. The passage will automatically populate in the box, but you may want to add the wording from your standard again! Click “Generate Questions.”
Read over your questions. Deselect any that you don’t want to use. Make sure all of your answers are correct and then click “Add Questions.”
You will now have 2 slides. One with your passage and one with your questions. You may want to insert another slide as your title page, but that’s completely up to you!
Now you can use the TeacherMade editing tools to format your slides, add some color, and maybe an image or two. When you’re done with that, you’ll have a beautiful, autograded assignment all ready for your students!

Proportional v. Non Proportional Relationships – Planning a Turkey Feast

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Grade: 8

Subject: Math

Standard: TEKS 8.5H (Identify examples of proportional and non-proportional functions that arise from mathematical and real-world problems)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Auto generate new content

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade in the “Slide View.”
Insert an instructional video to review the skill students will need to use in the activity. Add a TeacherText box with an introduction and any instructions.
Click the “Content Assistant (NEW)” button on the toolbar.
Select the button labeled “Create Questions from a Passage/Text.”
Enter the information in the boxes specifying what kind of questions you want. Paste the text of your introduction, the academic standard, and the specific topic in the “Passage/Text” box. Click the “Generate Questions” button. (Note: You can also use the transcript from the video if that is what you want to assess.)
Select the questions you would like to use. Click the “Add Questions” button to create a new slide with the selected questions in your activity.
Now you reorder the questions, split them between slides, or change them as you wish.
Go over each question one last time and double check the answers, and then you can assign it to your students.

The Turkey Whisperer

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Grade: 6

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 6.9D (Describe how the author’s use of figurative language such as metaphor and personification achieves specific purposes.)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Generate Passage and Questionsntent Assistant: Auto Generate Passage and Questions

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

In TeacherMade, open a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Click on the green “Content Assistant (NEW)” button.
Choose the “Create Passage or Text” button under “Auto generate new content.”
Fill in the fields listed on the left with your grade level, subject, genre and topic. In the “Topic” box be as specific as you’d like with what you want your passage to be about. Click “Generate passage.”
Read over your passage and make sure it meets your expectations. If it does, click “Add passage.” (If for some reason it doesn’t, you can modify your instructions and then click “Regenerate passage.”)
You will be asked if you’d like to create questions from the passage. Click “Yes.”
Fill in the fields again. If you have specific information from your standard you’d like to assess, you can add that to the box where your passage has already been autogenerated. Decide what question types you’d like and click “Generate questions.”
Carefully read over your questions. You can deselect any you don’t wish to use. Once you have only the ones checked that you want to use, click “Add questions.”
You will now have 2 slides. One with your passage and one with your questions. You can do some formatting with TeacherMade’s built in editing tools and then you’ll have an activity that is ready to assign to your students!

Therapeutic Electrical Interventions in the Muscular System

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Grade: High School

Subject: Anatomy and Physiology

Standard: TEKS AP.8B (Investigate the therapeutic uses and effects of external sources of electricity on the body system)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Auto generate new content

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade and select the “Content Assistant (NEW)” button on the toolbar.
Select the “Create Passage or Text” button under “Auto generate new content.”
Enter the grade level, subject, and genre for your passage. In the “Topic” box, enter the text of the academic standard you want to assess. Click the “Generate Passage” button.
Read over the passage and make any edits in the Content Assistant window. Then select the “Add Passage” button.
The Content Assistant will ask if you want to create questions for the passage—select “Yes.”
On the next page, fill out the form with the amount and types of assessment items you want to make. Click the “Generate Questions” button.
Select the items you want to use and then click “Add Questions.”
Doublecheck the answers to the questions for accuracy and completeness. Sometimes you may want to add an alternate correct answer to the key, such as a different wording for a fill-in-the-blank, for example.
Add illustrations or high-quality videos from the internet to support the passage using the TeacherMade tools. Now it is ready to assign to your students!

Thanksgiving Perspectives: Traditions and Truths

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Grade: High School

Subject: English

Standard: TEKS E2.8D (Analyze how the author’s use of language informs and shapes the perception of readers)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Generate Passage and Questions

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade. Make sure to select Slide View.
Click the green Content Assistant (NEW) button and select “Create Passage or Text”
Fill in the open fields on the left to meet your needs. We said we wanted a passage about the First Thanksgiving focusing on the traditional American story. Click “Generate Passage.”
Read over your passage to make sure everything looks good. If it does, click “Add Passage.”
A pop up will appear asking if you’d like to generate questions to go with your passage. Click “Yes.” But don’t fill in anything YET.
Since we are creating a comparison activity, we need to insert our video to compare. In our case, we are using a video about the views of Thanksgiving from teenage Native American Girls. Copy the transcript.
Go back to your TeacherMade screen. Your passage will already be generated, but under that type “Video transcript:” and paste the transcript from your video. You can also add a note that you need your questions to compare the perspectives in the passage and the video transcript.
Make sure to select the number of questions you want and which question types. Click “Generate Questions.”
Read over your questions to make sure that you like them and they are accurate. If everything looks good, click “Add questions.”
You will now have 2 slides. One with your passage and one with your questions. You will need to insert one more slide so that you can insert your video with TeacherMade’s built in editing tools. You can move that third slide wherever you’d like. We put it between the passage and the questions.
Add color, images, and any other formatting. You have an assignment ready for your students!

Thanksgiving Missing Numbers

Grades: K–2
Subject: Math
Description: Find the Missing Number! This Thanksgiving-themed activity will challenge students to solve ten equations to find the missing number. They’ll use strategies like counting up or solving the reverse subtraction equation to complete each problem. This engaging math activity is perfect for centers, review, or extra practice!
Item Types: Number Box

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Thanksgiving Daily Fix It Up #3

Grades: 3–5
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: Need a quick language arts bellringer? In this Thanksgiving-themed activity, students will correct three sentences, with the number of errors listed below each one. For an added challenge, cover the error count with a color block! This activity reinforces skills in capitalization, homophones, punctuation, and subject verb agreement.
Item Types: Short Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Thanksgiving Math Puzzles

Grades: 3–5
Subject: Math
Description: Students will love this math challenge! In each puzzle, they’ll use two equations to determine the value of each picture, and write it in the box. Then, they’ll solve the final equation by substituting in the numbers. Sixteen Thanksgiving puzzles in total will keep your students fully immersed and working hard!
Item Types: Number Box

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Thanksgiving Anagrams 1

Grades: 6–8
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: Students will have fun with these clever Thanksgiving anagrams! They’ll read the Thanksgiving-themed clues or phrases to help them solve the anagram to the left. With twenty-five anagrams to solve, they’ll be engaged the whole time! Great for partner work or independent practice!
Item Types: Short Answer

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Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

Grades: High School
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: “Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen” is an ironic tale about Stuffy Pete, a poor man treated each Thanksgiving to a feast by a generous old gentleman. Even though he’s already full, Pete eats to keep their tradition alive—only for both men to end up in the hospital, Pete from overeating and the gentleman from starvation! After reading this story of generosity and surprise, students will dive into an engaging assessment with multiple-choice, open-answer, and drag-and-drop questions!
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Open Response, Drag and Drop

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt (Geometry)

Grades: High School
Subject: Geometry
Description: Get your students involved in a Thanksgiving scavenger hunt! Using clues, students will identify geometry terms that start with each letter in the word “Thanksgiving.” They may even do a little internet searching to figure out some clues if you wish!
Item Types: Short Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

AI PREP RALLY – November 10, 2024 Edition

Laura Bresko — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:01:30 +0000

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November 3rd edition.

TeacherMade
is Getting a
New Name:
Classwork.Studio

Over the next two weeks, you’ll start to see TeacherMade’s name evolve to Classwork.Studio! Our commitment to supporting teachers is stronger than ever, and this new name reflects all the ways our platform is growing to serve you better.

We’re so excited to rebrand and reach even more educators with Classwork.Studio! We’re working hard to make this change as smooth as possible, so you can keep doing what you do best without interruption.

Keep an eye out for notices in the app , viaemail, and on social media. Thank you for being part of this journey!

Boom! Generate Content!

This week, we’re spotlighting a brand-new upgrade to our Content Assistant—now you can generate passages and questions right within TeacherMade.

Get ready to streamline your lesson prep even further with TeacherMade’s AI-driven features!

Pasting in content has a wide variety of uses. You can generate content on ChatGPT, Magic School, or some other site. But when you use those sites, all you get is text. You still have to format it and deliver it to your students. When you take the text and paste it into TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Import/Paste screen, it will be automatically turned into an interactive, autograded file ready for your classes.

Adages and Puns: Fun With Words

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Grade: 5

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 5.3D ( Identify, use, and explain the meaning of adages and puns.)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Import Content and Magic School’s Presentation Generator

How To Make This AI-Generated Content

Navigate to the MagicSchool website and click on the Presentation Generator tool.
Fill in the form to tell it what you would like your presentation to include. This is good for when you want a mini-lesson as opposed to a passage and questions. Click “Generate” once you fill out the form.
Read over what has been generated. Now, open a new Blank activity in Slide View on TeacherMade.
If your slide has a question on it, click the green Content Assistant button and copy and paste your Magic School content. A new slide will generate with the question and answer key already set up.
If your slide doesn’t have a question on it, use TeacherMade’s TeacherText tool and create a new slide with the necessary information.
Repeat steps 4 or 5 depending on whether your slide has questions on it or not, until you have all of your slides ready to go.
Double check your answer keys. Do any formatting you’d like in order to make your activity look nice. You’re ready to assign to your students!

Sand Dunes – Why Are They Here?

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Grade: 5

Subject: Science

Standard: TEKS 5.7B (Recognize how landforms such as deltas, canyons, and sand dunes are the result of changes to Earth’s surface by wind, water, or ice)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Create Questions from a Passage/Text

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

1. Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade in the “Slide View.”
2. Use the “Insert” button to add an instructional video about your standard to the first slide. Add a TeacherText box with the title.
3. Click the green “Content Assistant (BETA)” button on the toolbar.
4. Select the button labeled “Create Questions from a Passage/Text.”
5. Enter the information about the question you want to make in the boxes. Paste the transcript of the video in the “Passage” box. Click the “Generate Questions” button.
6. Select the questions you would like to use. Click the “Add Questions” button to create a new slide with the selected questions in your activity.
7. Now you should have two slides–one with the video and another with the questions you created for the video. You may want to split up the questions onto different slides using the “Split” button as we did. Beautify it with TeacherMade’s built-in editing tools, and assign it to your students.

The Economics of Vehicle Acquisition: Ownership versus Leasing

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Grade: High School

Subject: Economics

Standard: TEKS PFLE.6H (Analyze costs and benefits of owning versus leasing a vehicle.)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Create Passage or Text

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

Open a New Blank Activity in “Slide View” in TeacherMade.
Click on the green Content Assistant button and select “Create Passage or Text.”
Fill out the form to reflect what you would like your text to be about. You can include information about the standard you are assessing in the “Topic” box. Click “Generate Passage.”
Read over the passage provided. If you don’t like it, you can click “Regenerate Passage,” but if you’re happy with it, click “Add Passage.” A pop up will appear asking if you’d like to create questions to go with your passage. Click “Yes.”
Fill out the form. Your passage will automatically generate. You can select which question types you want and then click “Generate Questions.” Read through your question and select the ones you’d like to use. Then click “Add Questions.”
You will now have 2 slides, one with your passage and one with your questions. If you’d like to put different question types on different slides, you can use the “Split Slide Into Parts” option from the “Slide” dropdown menu.
All that’s left now is to make your assignment look pretty! You can use TeacherMade’s built-in editing tools to do some formatting before you assign it to your students!

Understanding Speed – A Kind of Time Travel

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Grade: 6

Subject: Science and/or Math

Standard: TEKS 6.8C (Calculate average speed using distance and time measurements)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Auto Generate Passage and Questions

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade in the “slide view.”
Click the “Content Assistant (BETA)” button on the toolbar.
Under “Auto Generate new content,” select the button labeled “Create Passage or Text.”
Enter the grade level, subject, genre, and word count you want for your passage. We selected an informational 6th grade science passage of 350 to 700 words. In the “Topic” box, paste in the text of the academic standard you are working on. Click “Generate Passage” on the bottom right.
Read over the passage and edit (if necessary) in the Content Assistant window (or “Regenerate Passage” if you want to try a different passage. Then click “Add Passage.”
Next, the Content Assistant will ask if you want to Generate Questions for the passage. Select how many of each kind of question you want it to make. (We asked for Multiple Choice questions.) Click the “Generate Questions” button.
Click the checkboxes beside the questions you decide you want to use. Click the “Add Questions” button when you are finished. (Note: We went back and did a second set of questions, “Math Questions,” to make some math problems applying the skill from the passage. Just click the “Content Assistant (NEW)” button again, and this time select “Create Questions from Passage/Text”–it automatically remembers your passage.)
TeacherMade’s Content Assistant will create slides with your passage and questions, ready to go. After reviewing and putting on your finishing touches (like the pictures we added), it’s go time!!

Cultural Celebrations Across Texas

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Grade: 7

Subject: Social Studies

Standard: TEKS 7.18A (Explain how the diversity of Texas is reflected in a variety of cultural activities and celebrations.)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Generate Passage and Questions

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

Go to the TeacherMade website and open a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Click on the green Content Assistant button. Select Create Passage or Text.
Fill out the form provided with your information. In the “Topic” box you can include some wording from your standard in order to make sure that it will be covered accurately. Click “Generate passage.”
Once your passage is generated, read over it to make sure you like it. If you do, select “Add passage.”
A pop up will appear asking if you’d like to create questions to go with your passage. Click “Yes.”
Fill out the new form. Your passage will automatically generate in the box. Decide how many and what types of questions you would like created and then click “Generate questions.”
Read over your questions and select the ones you want to include. Click “Add questions.”
You will now have two slides. One with your passage, and one with questions.
Do any last minute formatting with TeacherMade’s built in tools, and you’re ready to assign to your students!

Pythagorean Proofs

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Grade: High School

Subject: Geometry, Trigonometry

Standard: TEKS G.6D (Verify theorems about the relationships in triangles, including proof of the Pythagorean Theorem…)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Create Questions from a Passage/Text

How to Make This AI-Generated Content

Open TeacherMade and create a New Blank Activity.
Add an engaging video to the first slide using the “Insert” button. Add a TeacherText box with any instructions or a title.
Click the “Content Assistant (BETA)” button on the toolbar.
Select the button labeled “Create Questions from a Passage/Text.”
Specify the grade level, select the amount and type of questions, and paste the transcript from the video in the box. Click the “Generate Questions” button.
Select the questions you would like to use. Click the “Add Questions” button to create a new slide with the selected questions after your video.
Now you should have slides with the passage and the questions you created in your activity. (We repeated this process a second time with a second video.)
Do any tidying up using TeacherMade’s editing tools, and then let the learning begin!

Natural Resources

Grades: 1, 2
Subject: Science
Description: Teaching your students about natural resources, or need to review the concept? In this activity, students will drag names of natural resources from a word box to label corresponding pictures. This is a perfect activity to use before or after your lesson!
Item Types: Drag and Drop, True/False, Multiple Choice

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Thanksgiving Bar Graph

Grades: K–2
Subject: Math
Description: This activity has it all! Not only will students practice counting, but they’ll also create a bar graph to display their findings. First, students will count Thanksgiving-themed pictures (a pumpkin, leaves, cornucopia, pilgrim, Indigenous person, and turkey). Then, they’ll click in the boxes above each picture to build their own bar graph. This engaging activity is perfect for combining counting skills with graphing practice!
Item Types: Hot Spot

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Thanksgiving Compound Words

Grades: 3–5
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: This is the perfect Thanksgiving-themed bellringer activity! Students will begin by clicking on a word from the left side and matching it with a word on the right to form a Thanksgiving-themed compound word. Once they’ve made a match, they’ll type the full compound word into the provided box. This quick, engaging activity helps reinforce vocabulary and compound word skills while setting a festive tone for the lesson!
Item Types: Matching, Short Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

What’s for Dinner? Thanksgiving Writing Assignment

Grades: 3–8
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: In this engaging Thanksgiving writing assignment, students will step into the role of a clever turkey trying to persuade humans to choose a different main course for dinner! Using a designated flow map and rough draft, they’ll plan and craft a persuasive piece that describes an alternative dish and explains why it’s a better choice than a turkey.
Item Types: Open Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Thanksgiving Music Poems

Grades: 6–8
Subject: Music
Description: Calling all music teachers! In this activity, students will identify pitches on a treble clef staff and use those pitches to fill in the blanks on the next page. Then these pitches will help them complete three fun Thanksgiving poems. This lively lesson combines music with holiday cheer!
Item Types: Short Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Input, Output

Grades: 6–8
Subject: Computers/Technology
Description: Teaching your students about the parts of a computer? In this activity, students will read descriptions of various computer system components and select the correct part from a dropdown menu. Next, they’ll examine images and determine whether each item is used for input or output and identify if it’s hardware or software. This activity can be completed as a whole-class lesson or assigned as independent practice for your students!
Item Types: Dropdown Menu

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November 3, 2024

Laura Bresko — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:42 +0000

Remember: Students don’t need TeacherMade accounts. You send TeacherMade Activity links to them via Google Classroom, MS Teams, Canvas, Schoology, Brightspace, etc. It’s faster and safer this way.

To view the October 27th edition, please click here.

What can you do with that extra hour you get this week? Playing with TeacherMade’s AI Content Assistant might be your best choice!

Our AI Content Generation feature is going live. (If you don’t see it, try logging out and logging back in?) The Help files will lag just a little bit but don’t worry. It’s very intuitive so give it a go! In next week’s newsletter, we’ll post TeacherMade Kate’s video for how to use it.

We’d love to hear from you on this feature this week, so please email us at support@teachermade.com with your feedback. Enjoy!!

Apply Standards to Files

In this week’s TeacherMade Tip of the Week video, we’re highlighting a powerful feature that makes aligning your activities with state standards quick and easy: tagging standards. Whether you’re working on a new activity or editing an existing one, you can easily tag each question with relevant state standards. Just click on any question, choose “Edit Item Standards,” search for your state, subject, and grade level, then select the standard you want. TeacherMade even remembers your most recently used standards, allowing for quick selection. Plus, you can apply a standard to all questions in an assignment in just a few clicks through the settings menu. It’s a time-saving way to ensure your lessons meet educational requirements, all with the simplicity that TeacherMade brings.

Pasting in content has a wide variety of uses. You can generate content on ChatGPT, Magic School, or some other site. But when you do that, all you get is text. You still have to format it and deliver it to your students. When you paste the text into TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Import screen, it will be automatically turned into an interactive, autograded file ready for your classes.

Multiplication of Decimals Independent Learning Packet

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Grade: 5

Subject: Math

Standard: TEKS 5.3E (Solve for products of decimals to the hundredths, including situations involving money, using strategies based on place-value understandings, properties of operations, and the relationship to the multiplication of whole numbers)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Import Content and ChatGPT

How To Make This AI-Generated Content:

Go to ChatGPT and ask it to create an independent work packet based on standard or topic for your grade level. ChatGPT made a 5-part activity for us.
Go to TeacherMade and open a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Click the “Prompt Assistant(NEW)” button on the toolbar and select “Import Content.”
Copy one part of the ChatGPT activity and paste it into the box in TeacherMade. Click the “Go!” button.
TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant will create a new slide to your activity and add a preformatted and auto-gradable version of the ChatGPT activity you imported.
Repeat this process for every part of the activity from ChatGPT. Each time, TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant will create a new slide for you automatically.
Check every problem carefully. Add some color and pictures to make your activity more inviting, and you are ready to go!

Remembering D-Day Through the Eyes of a Veteran

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Grade: High School

Subject: English II / Social Studies (interdisciplinary activity)

Standard: TEKS E2.4H (Synthesize information from multiple texts to create new understanding.)

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Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Generate Questions

How To Make This AI-Generated Content:

Go to the TeacherMade website and open a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Find a YouTube video about your subject matter that you would like to use. Make sure to watch the video. Then copy the transcript.
Click the green button in TeacherMade to open the PromptAssistant (New).
Choose the “auto generate” and click “Passage.”
Fill out the form with the appropriate information. In the “Topic” section, tell PromptAssistant exactly what you need. In our case, we wanted to compare a video to a written passage so this is where we pasted the transcript of the YouTube video. We also included some wording from the standard we want to cover. Click “Generate Passage.”
Read through your passage and make sure you’re happy with it. If you are, click “Add Passage.” You will be asked if you’d like to generate questions to go with your passage, click “Yes.”
Fill out the form you’d again. This time in the “Prompt” section, tell it what you’d like the questions to assess. Choose the types of questions you want. Also decide how many questions you’d like it to generate. We suggest generating more than you need so that you can pick the ones you like the best. Click “Generate Questions.”
Read through your questions and select the ones you want to use for your assignment. Click “Add Questions.”
You will now have a passage slide and a questions slide. We added an extra slide at the beginning to insert directions and our video. If you have a video, you’ll need to do that as well.
Finally, do any formatting you’d like and then your activity is ready to be assigned to your students and Autograded for you by TeacherMade!

Understanding Similar Shapes

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 7

Subject: Mathematics

Standard: TEKS 7.5A (Generalize the critical attributes of similarity, including ratios within and between similar shapes)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here and Claude

Tools: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Import/Paste Content and Claude

How To Make This AI-Generated Content:

Open the free version of Claude using the link above.
Tell Claude to create an engaging assessment for your standard or topic.
Start a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade.
Open the TeacherMade Prompt Assistant and click on the “Import Content” button. Copy the output from Claude into the box and click “Go!”
Prompt Assistant will format your activity for you. Polish your slides using TeacherMade’s built-in tools. (We split items into different slides, added background color, and inserted a few images).
Be sure to review the final activity for accuracy. Assign it to your students and let the assessment begin!

The Story of the Poppy: A Symbol of Remembrance

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Grade: 8

Subject: ELA / Social Studies (interdisciplinary activity)

Standard: TEKS 8.9D (Describe how the author’s use of figurative language achieves specific purposes.)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here and ChatGPT

Tools: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Import Content and ChatGPT

How To Make This AI-Generated Content:

Navigate to the ChatGPT website. Tell Chat what you would like your passage to be about. In our case, we wanted a brief introduction and the famous poem about the poppy becoming a symbol of Veterans Day.
Read through what Chat comes up with and make any necessary changes.
Go to TeacherMade and Open a new Blank Activity in Slide View.
Open PromptAssistant (New) by clicking on the green button, then choose “Import Content.”
Copy and paste your passage from ChatGPT and click “Go!”
Since we had a passage and a poem, we used TeacherMade’s new slide splitting feature by clicking on the “Slide” dropdown menu and then selecting “Split Slide Into Parts.” You can then choose where you want to split slides. We picked the line between the passage and the poem.
Next, click the “PromptAssistant (New)” button again. This time select “Questions.” Fill out the form. In the Passage box you’ll need to copy and paste your passage from ChatGPT. In the Prompt box type in what you would like the questions to assess. You can include some wording from your standard. Select how many questions and what types you’d like (we recommend choosing all 20 and then going through and picking the ones you like the best!) and click “Generate Questions.”
Once you’ve selected the ones you want to use click “Add questions.” You’ll now have another slide with your questions.
Make any formatting changes you’d like. Add some pictures, a background color, and anything else you want to add.
You’re ready to assign your auto-graded activity to your students!

Lewis Dot Structures of Elements

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: High School

Subject: Chemistry

Standard: TEKS C.6D (Express the arrangement of electrons in atoms of representative elements using electron configurations and Lewis valence electron dot structures)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here and Gemini

Tools: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Import Content and Gemini

How To Make This AI-Generated Content:

Use the link above to go to the free version of Gemini.
In Gemini’s prompt box (marked “Ask Gemini”), paste the standard you would like a passage about. It is useful to specify a grade level, subject, and desired word count. Gemini will create a passage about your topic.
Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade. Create a “TeacherText” box and paste in the passage from Gemini.
Open the TeacherMade Prompt Assistant and under “Auto generate new content,” select the “Questions” button. Paste the passage from Gemini into the “Passage” box and fill out the other parameters for your assessment items. Click “Generate Questions.”
Select the questions you would like to use, and click “Add Questions” to create a new slide with the questions.
Format the activity. We grouped the assessment items by type onto different slides and added background color and images.
Proofread the entire activity for mistakes. And then… you’re done!

Veterans Day for Kids

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 3

Subject: Social Studies

Standard: TEKS 3.11 (The students understand the role of heroes in shaping the culture of communities, the state, and the nation.)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Content Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI-Generated Content:

Find the YouTube video that you would like to use for your activity. Make sure to preview it. Copy the transcript.
Go to TeacherMade and open a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Open PromptAssistant (New) by clicking on the green button. Select “Create Content, Questions.”
Fill out the form. In the Passage box paste the transcript from your YouTube video. In the Prompt box say that you would like questions that assess your standard. You can include some wording from your standard. You can also enter your standard below.
Make sure to select the question types and how many questions you want. We recommend requesting more than you need so that you can choose the ones you like the best. Click “Generate Questions.”
Read through the questions and select the ones you want to use. Then click “Add Questions.” You will then have a slide with your questions along with the answer key already completed for you!
Add a new slide and use TeacherMade’s Insert Video tool in order for students to view the video. All you need is the URL for the video. It’s that easy.
Add directions and do any other formatting. Once you’re finished with that, your activity is ready for your students.

Veterans Day – Honoring America’s Heroes

Grades: High School
Subject: US History, Civics
Description: Looking for an engaging activity to teach students about Veterans Day, celebrated on November 11th? In this nonfiction article, students will explore the history and significance of Veterans Day—when it’s celebrated and why it matters.
Item Types: Match Table Grid, Short Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Matching and Creating Plots

Grades: 3–5
Subject: Math
Description: This activity on stem-and-leaf plots offers students multiple ways to demonstrate their understanding! It’s a comprehensive activity that has everything needed for students to master these plot types!
Item Types: Matching, Number Box, Checkboxes

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

The New Guardians of Our American Galaxy

Grades: 6–8
Subject: English, Social Studies
Description: In this reading activity, students will learn about when and why the U.S. Space Force was created and the important tasks it handles. They’ll then watch a recruitment video highlighting the Space Force’s mission and the roles of its team members. This activity offers a comprehensive look into the Space Force and its unique role in our country’s military.
Item Types: Dropdown Menu, Number Box, True/False, Multiple Select, Multiple Choice, Open Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Anatomy: Organs, Digestive System & More

Grades: 6–8
Subject: Science
Description: Perfect for review or as an assessment, this Identify and Label activity covers all major body systems.
Item Types: Dropdown Menus

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Theodore Roosevelt: His Experience as a Veteran and His Political Career

Grades: High School
Subject: U.S. History, Civics
Description: Read all about Theodore Roosevelt and discover how his experiences as a veteran shaped his political career! After reading, students will answer 10 multiple-choice and 5 multi-select questions to assess their understanding. This activity is perfect for Veterans Day!
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Multiple Select

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Counting Coins

Grades: K–2
Subject: Math
Description: How many cents are in each box? In this activity, students will identify the value of each coins in the box, calculate the total sum, and practice essential counting and addition skills. Perfect for use after a lesson, as review practice, or in small group centers, it offers an engaging way for students to master counting coins!
Item Types: Number Box

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

October 27th, 2024

Laura Bresko — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:29:57 +0000

Please Remember: Students don’t need TeacherMade accounts. You send them TeacherMade Activity links via Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, Brightspace, etc. It’s faster and safer this way.

To view the October 20th edition, please click here.

See Student Work Easily

Tracking student progress is simpler than ever with TeacherMade’s student review feature. From your homepage, click the “Students” button on the left to view recent assignments, check submissions, and manage activities. Easily review assignments by week, month, or year, and access each student’s work with options to reset, reopen, or mark as completed. Perfect for monitoring individual progress, parent-teacher conferences, or administrative meetings, this tool keeps you on top of student engagement all semester!

Our AI Generation feature is almost ready to come out of the oven– it’s in final QA!! Expect it to go live some time this week.

We hope you will love the timesaving power of content creation and assignment delivery, student feedback, grading, and reports all in one single app. We’ve certainly been enjoying it during beta testing and have used it once again to create 6 awesome activities for you. Welcome to TeAIcherMade.

Samhain: The Ancient Origins of Halloween and Its Evolution

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: HS

Subject: ELA/History

Standard: TEKS E1.4G (Evaluate details read to determine key ideas)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tools: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate and ChatGPT’s DALL-E

How To Make This AI-Generated Content:

Go to the TeacherMade website and open a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Click on the green “PromptAssistant (New)” button and choose to generate a passage and questions.
Fill in the form. In the “Prompt” box give your directions. You can include some wording from the standard you are assessing in order to make sure your passage will meet your needs. Click “Generate Passage.”
Read over your passage and make sure it’s to your liking. If it is, click “Add Passage.”
Now it’s time to create our questions. Fill out the form and in the prompt box say that you’d like to create questions based on the passage. You can again include any wording from your standard that you want to make sure is assessed. We are also using a YouTube video, so in the Prompt box we also included the transcript from the YouTube video and said that we wanted questions both from the passage and the video. It worked great! You’ll also need to choose how many of each question type you’d like provided. Click “Generate Questions.”
Read over your questions and select the ones you want to include in your activity. Click “Add Questions.”
Now your activity is ready to be formatted and then assigned to your students! We added an additional slide before the passage to insert our video and add some directions. We also used ChatGPT’s DALL-E to create an image to go along with our passage. Once your formatting is done, it’s ready to assign to your students!

Understanding the Preamble to the Constitution

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 5

Subject: Social Studies

Standard: TEKS 5.14B (Explain the purposes of the U.S. Constitution as identified in the Preamble.)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate Questions

How To Make This AI-Generated Activity:

Navigate to the TeacherMade website and open a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Find a YouTube video that meets your standard. Copy the transcript so that you can use it to create questions.
Open Prompt Assistant by clicking on the green button. Choose to generate questions.
Fill out the form. In the “Passage (optional)” box, paste the transcript of your YouTube video. In the “Prompt” box write that you would like to generate questions that go along with the transcript posted in the Passage box. You can include some wording from your standard to make sure that the questions align correctly. Choose the number of each question type you’d like to start with. Click “Generate Questions.”
Look through your questions and select the ones you’d like to use. Once you have done that, click “Add Questions.”
A slide will populate with all of the questions you selected. You can now insert a new slide before the questions and use the Insert Video tool so that students can view the video before answering the questions.
We used a second video, so we repeated the previous steps for the additional video.
Now you can add directions, format, or add anything else you’d like. Once you’re happy with the way it looks, it’s ready to assign to your students!

Speed vs. Velocity vs. Acceleration

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 8

Subject: Science, Math

Standard: TEKS 8.6B (Differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI-Generated Activity:

Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade in the “slide view.”
Click the “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button on the toolbar.
Select the button labeled “Passage and Questions.”.
Enter the grade level and subject you want a passage for. We selected 8th grade science. In the “Prompt” box, paste in the text of the academic standard or specific topic. Click “Generate Passage” on the bottom right.
Read over the passage and edit (if necessary) in the Prompt Assistant window. Then click “Next.”
On the next page, tell Prompt Assistant how many of each kind of question you want it to make. In the “Prompt” box, enter any additional instructions or information you want it to consider. (We asked it to make math application items.) Click the “Regenerate Questions” button.
Click the checkboxes beside the questions you decide you want to use. Click the “Add Questions” button when you are finished.
TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant will create a slide with the passage and another with the questions. After reviewing and putting on your finishing touches (like the pictures we added), it’s ready to go!

Human Migration and Its Impact on Europe

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 6

Subject: Social Studies

Standard: TEKS 6.3B (Explain ways in which human migration influences the character of places and regions.)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI-Generated Activity:

Begin by opening a New Blank Activity on TeacherMade. Make sure you select “slide view.”
Click the green “Prompt Assistant (New)” button and choose to generate a passage and questions.
Fill in the form. This one is for the passage. Since we are creating a Social Studies passage, we chose “informational” for the genre. In the “Prompt” box explain a little bit about what you want your passage to be about. You can include some wording from your standard. Click “generate passage.”
Read over the suggested passage to make sure it meets your needs. If you don’t like something, you can update your prompt and click “Regenerate Passage.” Once you like what you have, click “Next.”
The next form is to create your questions. This time in the “Prompt” box you can say that you’d like to create questions to go along with the passage. You can again include some wording from your standard to make sure that the questions assess it correctly. Click “Regenerate Questions.”
Now read over your questions and make sure you “check” the ones you want to use and “uncheck” the ones you don’t. When you’re happy with your selections, click “Add questions.”
Now you will have 2 slides—one with your passage and one with your questions. You can format however you’d like. We chose to add an image and some directions along with a colorful background with the help of ChatGPTs DALL-E (for the image) and TeacherMade’s built-in editing tools for everything else! When you’re done with that, your activity is ready to assign to your students!

When Earth’s Spheres Collide!

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: High School

Subject: Environmental Science

Standard: TEKS E.6A (Define and identify the components of the geosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere and the interactions among them)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI-Generated Activity:

Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade in the “Slide View.”
Add an exciting video to pique student interest using the “Insert” button. Add a TeacherText box with any instructions.
Click the “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button on the toolbar.
Select the button labeled “Passage and Questions.”
Enter the information in the boxes. Paste the text of the academic standard or topic in the “Prompt” box. Click the “Generate Passage” button.
Edit the passage in the Prompt Assistant window. If you would like to try a different passage, click “Regenerate.” When you have the passage the way you want it, click “Next.”
On the next screen, use the dropdowns in Prompt Assistant to select the amounts and kinds of questions you want. Enter any additional instructions in the “Prompt” box. Click the “Regenerate Questions” button.
Select the questions you would like to use. Click the “Add Questions” button to create a new slide with the selected questions in your activity.
Now you should have slides with the passage and the questions you created in your activity. Spiff it up a bit with TeacherMade’s built-in editing tools, and assign it to your students.

The Witch’s Garden

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 4

Subject: Science

Standard: TEKS 4.7A (Examine properties of soils, including color and texture, capacity to retain water, and ability to support the growth of plants)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate and ChatGPT’s DALL-E

How To Make This AI-Generated Activity:

Open a New Blank Activity in “slide view” in TeacherMade.
Click the green “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button.
Select the “Passage and Questions” button.
Enter the grade level, subject, and genre for your passage. (We chose “narrative” because we wanted a story including science.) In the “Prompt” box, paste in the text of the academic standard or specific topic.
Read over the passage and make any edits right in the Prompt Assistant window. (You might want to delete the first sentence where it says “Here’s a passage…” and replace it with the title.) Then click “Next.”
On the next page, tell Prompt Assistant how many of each kind of question you want it to make. In the “Prompt” box, enter any additional instructions or information you want it to consider. (We asked it to limit questions to the science concepts in the story.) Click the “Regenerate Questions” button.
Click the check boxes beside the questions you want to use and click the “Add Questions” button when you are finished.
TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant creates slides with your passage and questions. After reviewing and putting on your finishing touches, it’s ready to use!

Pumpkin-Spiced Activities Made By Teachers Just Like You

The activities below were selected from the Shared Library by Team TeacherMade. Remember, when you’re in a pinch, the Library is the first place to look.

Watch, Listen, Learn: Dia de Los Muertos

Grades: 3–5
Subject: Social Studies
Description: In this activity, students will watch an engaging video to learn about Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Afterwards, they will answer a variety of questions to assess their understanding of the topic. The questions will even include a matching section with pictures from the video, which is sure to be a student favorite! This is a fun and effective way to check their listening comprehension.
Item Types: Dropdown Menu, Multiple Select, Matching, Custom Buttons

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Counting Ghosts, Ghouls, Mummies, and Pumpkins, too!

Grades: K–2
Subject: Math
Description: Looking for a spooky math activity for your students? They’re sure to love this Halloween-themed task! In this activity, students will count how many Halloween items are in each section, then write their answers in the provided boxes. It’s a great way to assess their counting skills from 0-10. At the end, there’s a challenge that offers excellent extension work for your higher-level learners—they’ll have to add up the total number of pumpkins, mummies, ghouls, and ghosts! This is a perfect activity for Halloween math or for use in centers to get into the holiday spirit!
Item Types: Number Box

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

The Bread of the Dead: Pan de Muerto

Grades: 6–8
Subject: Social Studies, Math
Description: Pan de Muerto, the “bread of the dead,” is a key part of Día de los Muertos celebrations. In this comprehensive reading activity, students will dive into the rich cultural significance of this traditional bread, while also receiving a recipe to make it at home with their guardians! After exploring the passage, students will answer 14 questions designed to not only test their reading comprehension but also challenge their math skills and ability to follow detailed recipe steps. This activity truly has it all!
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, Short Answer, True/False, Number Box, Open Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Día de Los Muertos y Mariposas

Grades: High School
Subject: Social Studies, English
Description: Do you know how Día de los Muertos began? It may be connected to the annual monarch butterfly migration! In this reading comprehension activity, students will explore the significance of the monarchs’ migration to central Mexico and learn ways to help protect them. Afterward, they’ll answer 12 questions to assess their understanding, including an open-ended question where they can practice the RACE format. This activity is both informative and engaging!
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Dropdown Menu, Multiple Select, Hot Spot, True/False, Open Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Halloween Figurative Language

Grades: 6–8
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: Figurative language is always a hit with students, and pairing it with Halloween makes it even more exciting! In this activity, students will read eight figurative language phrases. After identifying the type of figurative language (whether it’s a hyperbole, idiom, metaphor, proverb, or simile), students will explain its meaning and craft their own sentence to share with the class. This activity works great for partner work, as a bellringer, or even as an independent task!
Item Types: Dropdown Menu, Open Answer

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

Grade K Math Picture Patterns Drag and Drop – Fern, Dinosaur, etc

Grades: K–2
Subject: Math
Description: Use this activity to practice sequencing and patterns in class! Students will drag the next picture in each row to complete the pattern correctly. They’re sure to love the fun dinosaur and volcano graphics featured in this activity!
Item Types: Drag and Drop

TeacherMade Content Link: Click Here!

AI Prep Rally Newsletter – October 20th, 2024

Laura Bresko — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 04:54:37 +0000

Please Remember: Students don’t need TeacherMade accounts. You send them TeacherMade Activity links via Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, Brightspace, etc. It’s faster and safer this way.

To view the October 6th edition, please click here.

Is Halloween Weaving Its Magical Web at Your School?

The magic of Halloween is creeping through the halls of schools across the country, bringing with it excitement, creativity, and a dash of spookiness! To help channel that energy into learning, we’ve brewed up Halloween-themed activities that combine the fun of the season with focused, engaging lessons. From solving math mysteries to language arts word play, these activities will keep students immersed in learning while celebrating the festive spirit. The trick is to keep learning going; the treat is ghoulishly good TeacherMade activities that your students will want more of!

New Feature: Split Slides

Ever uploaded a document into TeacherMade and wished you could split it into separate, easy-to-follow slides? Now you can! Our Slide Splitter lets you break up long documents by simply clicking where you want them divided. Rearrange or remove the splits with ease, and in seconds, your document transforms into multiple slides for smoother viewing and access to more tools. Watch the video to see how this new feature makes document editing even easier!

TeacherMade Activity Link:

Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 4

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 4.6G (Evaluate details read to determine key ideas )

Content Site: Kids Story Creator

TeacherMade Tool: Prompt Assistant – Import

How To Make This AI Activity:

Navigate to the CustomGPT called Kids Story Creator.
Input any directions that you have. We said we wanted a story for 4th graders with a slight Halloween focus to evaluate TEKS 4.6G, evaluating details to determine key ideas. We also said that we wanted multiple choice and true/false questions to assess students.
The cool thing about Kids Story Creator is that it breaks your story into different slides. In this case, it even put a question on each slide. This makes it very easy to import into TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant! Kids Story Creator will also give you images if you’d like.
Open a New Blank Activity in Slide View in TeacherMade.
If you have a title slide, use Teacher Text and create insert your directions and an image if you have one.
Click the green PromptAssistant button to open. Choose input content. Copy the portion of your story that you’d like on the next slide and click Go! Note: if you have any questions on the slide, make sure your answer key is included.
Repeat step #6 until you have all of your story slides created.
Do any formatting you’d like. Add a background color and any images you’d like to include. Your activity is ready to assign to your students!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 3

Subject: Math

Standard: TEKS 3.8A (Summarize a data set with multiple categories using a frequency table, dot plot, pictograph, or bar graph with scaled intervals)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI Activity:

Open a new blank activity in TeacherMade in the slide view.
Click the “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button and select “Passage.” Fill out the form and add the text of the standard in the “Prompt:” box. (We edited the standard to focus on just dot plots.) Click “Generate Passage.”
If everything looks good, click “Add Passage.” Format the passage to your liking.
Now let’s add the questions. Click the “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button in TeacherMade, select “Questions.” In the box that says passage, rather than paste in the passage, instead we created a new dot plot to use for the questions and pasted it in the box.
In the box that says “Prompt:”, tell Prompt Assistant to create questions assessing the standard (paste in the text of the standard) using the example in the passage box. This will ensure all of the questions are about the new example you created.
Check the type and number of questions you want, and click “Generate Questions.”
Select the questions you want to use, and then click “Add Questions.”
Review the activity and make any edits or formatting changes you want to make. Your activity is ready to go!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 6

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 6.8C (Analyze how playwrights develop characters through dialogue and staging.)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate and ChatGPT’s Dall-e

How To Make This AI Activity:

Open a New Blank Activity in slide view in TeacherMade.
Click the green “PromptAssistant (NEW)” button and select “Passage and Questions.” Fill out the form. In the “Prompt” section, include the wording of your standard that you’d like to focus on. (We also told it that we wanted a subtle Halloween theme for this particular passage.) Click “Generate Passage.”
Read over the provided passage. If you like it, go ahead and click “Add Passage.”
Now it’s time to add questions. Fill out the form and in the “Prompt” box tell it to create questions based on the previous passage that assess your standard. Again, make sure you have the wording of the standard pasted in to ensure your questions meet your needs.
Choose the type and number of each question type you want, and click “Generate Questions.”
Look over the questions and select the ones you’d like to include in your activity. Click “Add Questions.”
Review your activity and make any changes or format to make it look nice for your students. We used ChatGPT’s DALL-E to create images to go along with the passage. Insert those into your slides using TeacherMade’s “Insert Image” tool and you’re done!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: 7

Subject: Math

Standard: TEKS 7.4D (Solve problems involving ratios, rates, and percents, including multi-step problems involving percent increase and percent decrease, and financial literacy problems)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign Up for An Account Here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI Activity:

Start a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade.
Tell Prompt Assistant to create questions assessing the standard (paste in the text of the standard in the “Passage” box) and direct it to follow a theme in the “Prompt” box (we chose Halloween).
Check the type and number of questions you want, and click “Generate Questions.” (We chose “Math Questions.”
Select the questions you want to use, and then click “Add Questions” to put them into your activity.
Separate each question onto its own slide in TeacherMade by making new slides and pasting in each individual problem.
Next, open up ChatGPT and ask it to create an illustration for each problem. Use the “Insert Image” tool in TeacherMade to add the pictures to your slides.
Review the activity and make any edits or formatting changes you want to make. Your activity is ready to go!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: HS

Subject: English I

Standard: TEKS E1.6B (Analyze how authors develop complex yet believable characters in works of fiction through a range of literary devices, including character foils.)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI Activity:

In TeacherMade, open a New Blank Activity in slide view.
Open PromptAssistant by clicking the green “PromptAssistant (New)” button and choose “Passage and Questions.”
Fill out the provided form. In the “Prompt” box paste the wording of your standard, if there’s a certain part of the standard you’d like to focus on, simply write that into the box as well. You can choose any genre you’d like and click “Generate Passage.”
Read over the passage provided. If there’s anything you don’t like or if you have additional suggestions type that into the “Prompt” box and then click “Regenerate Passage.” As soon as you like what you see, click “Add Passage.”
Now it’s time to add our questions. In the “Prompt” box you can say that you’d like to create questions to match the passage. Paste in any wording from the standard you’d like the questions to focus on. Decide how many of each question type you want and click “Generate Questions.”
Read over the questions and select the ones you’d like to include. You can always “Regenerate” if you’d like to make any changes. As soon as you’re happy with the questions you have selected, click “Add Questions.”
Now you have your new activity. You can format it however you’d like. We used ChatGPT’s DALL-E to create an image and inserted it with TeacherMade’s “Insert Image” tool. When you’re done formatting, your activity is ready to assign to your students!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

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Grade: 8 or High School

Subject: Algebra I

Standard: TEKS A.3B (Calculate the rate of change of a linear function represented tabularly, graphically, or algebraically in context of mathematical and real-world problems)

Website: Gemini and TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Import Content

How To Make This AI Activity:

Find a good YouTube video for the lesson that aligns with your standard.
Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade, insert the video, and add a title and instructions.
Go to Gemini and paste in the transcript of the YouTube video. Ask Gemini to create more problems like the one in the video.
Click the “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button in TeacherMade, click “Import Content,” and paste the math problems from Gemini into the box. Click Go! TeacherMade will format the questions for you on a new slide.
Double check all of the answers and make adjustments as needed.
Edit the layout and assign it to your students. Done!

Paranormal Activities Made By Teachers Just Like You

The activities below were selected from the Shared Library by Team TeacherMade. Remember, when you’re in a pinch, the Library is the first place to look.

Halloween Jigsaw Puzzle

Grades: PreK – K
Subject: Math
Description: Kindergarteners will love completing this drag-and-drop Halloween puzzle! In this activity, students will drag four pieces of a Jack-o’-Lantern into place to complete the picture. This is a perfect activity for centers!
Item Types: Drag and Drop

Sharing Link: Click Here!

Spooky Synonyms Drag and Drop

Grades: 3 – 5
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: Spooky Synonyms! Holidays offer the perfect chance for students to practice using synonyms, and this Halloween-themed activity is a fun way to do it! Students will read a spooky story, then make it even better by dragging and dropping stronger synonyms to replace the less interesting word in the passage. This is sure to become a Halloween favorite!
Item Types: Drag and Drop

Sharing Link: Click Here!

Halloween Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Grades: 3, 4
Subject: Math
Description: In this fun, Halloween-themed activity, students will work through six addition or subtraction word problems. Not only will they solve each problem, but for some questions, they’ll also explain or choose how they reached their answer! As a final challenge, they’ll create their own spooky word problem for classmates to solve. This activity is packed with Halloween excitement!
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Number Box, Dropdown Menu, Short Answer, Open Answer

Sharing Link: Click Here!

C’est L’Halloween

Grades: High School
Subject: French
Description: In this French activity, students will drag and drop words to complete the popular song C’est L’Halloween. This French Canadian Halloween song by Matt Maxwell is often sung by children in Quebec and other French-speaking regions, celebrating the spooky excitement of Halloween with catchy lyrics about costumes, candy, and holiday fun. It’s a seasonal favorite and a great way to bring the Halloween spirit into your classroom.
Item Types: Matching

Sharing Link: Click Here!

Halloween Fraction Word Problems

Grade: 6
Subject: Math
Description: Get into the Halloween spirit with this engaging fractions activity! Students will solve seven fraction word problems, practicing both addition and subtraction. At the end, they’ll tackle a challenge problem where they can use repeated addition or multiplication. It’s a fun and festive way for all students to boost their fraction skills!
Item Types: Number Box

Sharing Link: Click Here!

SCATTER PLOTS: Line of Best Fit

Grades: High School
Subject: Math
Description: In this interactivity, students will solve twenty-one math problems focused on scatter plots. For the first nine questions, they’ll write the slope-intercept form equation for the trend line in each scatter plot. Then for the next twelve questions, they’ll predict the value of either x or y based on the scatter plot data. This would be great to use for practice or an assessment!
Item Types: Algebra/Formula, Multiple Choice

Sharing Link: Click Here!

AI Prep Rally Newsletter – October 13th, 2024

Laura Bresko — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 04:49:06 +0000

Please Remember: Students don’t need TeacherMade accounts. You send them TeacherMade Activity links via Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, Brightspace, etc. It’s faster and safer this way.

To view the October 6th edition, please click here.

Make TeacherMade Activities Using AI Directly in Our App

Prompting AI directly in TeacherMade is still in beta testing– but only because hurricanes keep interfering with our work! We can say with confidence that the feature will be released by no later than Halloween.

If you’re a power user and would like to be a beta tester in the meantime, please email support@teachermade.com

To make activities for you this week, we’ve used both features in our Prompt Assistant: Import and Generate. We’ve also provided you with the steps we took to make a TeacherMade activity that’s ready to go for you and your students in moments.

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How is AI adoption and usage going at your school? K12 Dive reports on a student usage survey that you may be interested in reading.

Prompt Assistant: Generate

Creating auto-graded activities for your students in TeacherMade is sooo easy.

You’ll use a Super Prompt form, fill it out, and voila! Your TeacherMade activity will be ready to assign to your students.

And of course you’ll be able to make edits, regenerate, and format. So cool and a huge timesaver!! Soon you’ll be able to do it all in TeacherMade!

Drag and Drop: Refresher

The Drag and Drop interaction in TeacherMade is the most complex type of activity to create. It’s also one of the favorites of teachers and students alike.

TeacherMade Kate walks us through the Drag and Drop interaction in this week’s video.

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

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Grade: 3

Subject: Science

Standard: TEKS 3.6A (Explore different forms of energy, including mechanical, light, sound, and thermal in everyday life)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI Activity:

Open a New Blank Activity in “slide view” in TeacherMade.
Click the green “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button.
Select the “Passage and Questions” button.
Enter the grade level and subject you want a passage for. In the “Prompt” box, paste in the text of the academic standard or specific topic. (We decided to only use part of a larger standard about energy, so we told it to only cover light energy.)
Read over the passage and make any edits right in the Prompt Assistant window. Then click “Next.”
On the next page, tell Prompt Assistant how many of each kind of question you want it to make. Enter any additional instructions or information you want it to consider in the “Prompt Box.” (We decided to focus on application of the standard to student’s daily life.) Click the “Regenerate Questions” button.
Select the questions you want to use. You can edit the actual questions later when they are in the activity. Click the “Add Questions” button when you are finished.
TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant creates one slide with your passage on it, and another with your questions. Go through the questions and make any necessary changes. Personalize the passage with color or pictures, and your activity is ready to go!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

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Grade: 3

Subject: ELA

Standard: 3.2B.ii (spelling homophones)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI Activity:

Find a YouTube video you’d like to use for your activity.
Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade. On the first slide, add your video and directions.
Click the green “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button in TeacherMade, and under “Auto generate new content,” select “Questions.”
Paste the transcript of the video you’re using in the “Passage” box. In the “Prompt” box, tell Prompt Assistant what you’d like. We simply said we wanted questions for 3rd grade students about homophones based on the video.
We chose to have PromptAssistant create 5 multiple choice questions, 5 multiple select, 5 true/false and 5 open answers so that we would have a variety to choose from. Click “Generate Questions.”
Preview the questions PromptAssistant generates for you. Uncheck any questions you don’t want to use. Click “Add Questions.”
A new slide will come up with all of your selected questions.
Review your questions and answers. Do any formatting you’d like. Assign to your students!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

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Grade: 6

Subject: Science

Standard: TEKS 6.6B (Calculate density to identify an unknown substance)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI Activity:

Find a YouTube video for the lesson that aligns with your standard.
Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade, insert the video, and add a title and instructions.
Click the “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button in TeacherMade and under “Auto generate new content,” select “Questions.”
In the box for “Passage,” paste the transcript for the video you are using. We told Prompt Assistant to specifically make T/F questions about the video content and Math Answer questions applying the skill by using the “Prompt” box.
TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant will create a new slide and format the questions for you.
Review the answers and edit the layout. (We moved the math problems to a separate slide and added some color to the background). Assign it to your students and you are done!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

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Grade: High School

Subject: Biology – Transcription and Translation from DNA and mRNA to Amino Acids

Standard: TEKS B.6C (Explain the purpose and process of transcription and translation using models of DNA and RNA)

Content Site: Biology Professor on ChatGPT

TeacherMade Tool: Prompt Assistant – Import (Sign up for an account here)

How To Make This AI Activity:

Open the “Biology Professor” GPT using the tool link.
Tell the GPT to create a reading passage with an assessment for comprehension using multiple choice, along with some application questions for TEKS B.6C.
Start a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade.
Open the TeacherMade Prompt Assistant and click on the “Import Content” button. Copy the output from the GPT into the box and click Go!
Format your activity using TeacherMade’s built-in tools. (We added a few diagrams, changed the colors, and moved content to different slides).
Review the activity, add your final touches, and then assign it to your students. Done!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

Click Here to View and Copy

Grade: High School

Subject: Government – The Judicial Branch and Marbury v. Madison

Standard: TEKS G.7C (Analyze the structure and functions of the judicial branch of government, including the federal court system, types of jurisdiction, and judicial review.)

Content Site: Magic School – YouTube Video Questions

TeacherMade Tool: Prompt Assistant – Import (Sign up for an account here)

How To Make This AI Activity:

Log in to Magic School by clicking the link. If you’ve never used it, don’t worry, it’s free for teachers!
Select the YouTube Video Questions tool, or click our link.
Fill in your grade level, question type, number of questions, and the link to the YouTube video you’d like to use, and click Generate. When the questions appear, make sure to read over them for accuracy.
Go to the TeacherMade website and open a New Blank Activity in Slide View. On the first slide, insert your YouTube video. Open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant by clicking the green button.
Click to import created content. Copy and paste the questions and answer key from MagicSchool.
Click Go! A new slide will be created with your questions.
You can stop here and do your formatting, or you can add another video. We repeated the steps with a second video and selected true/false questions this time – but that part is totally up to you!
Once you’re happy with your activity, do any formatting that you’d like to add, and you have an autogradable activity all ready for your students!

TeacherMade AI-Generated Activity Link:

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Grade: 8

Subject: ELA – The Forgotten Melody Passage and Question Set

Standard: TEKS 8.7B (Analyze how characters’ motivations and behaviors influence events and resolution of the conflict.)

Website: TeacherMade – Sign up for an account here

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

How To Make This AI Activity:

Go to the TeacherMade website and open a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Click on the Green “Prompt Assistant (New)” button.
Under “Auto generate New Content” click on “Passage and Questions.”
This first page is just for the passage. Fill in your grade level, subject, and any of the optional information you’d like.
In the Prompt box, tell Prompt Assistant what you’d like it to create. We said we wanted a passage where students can analyze how characters’ motivations and behaviors influence events and resolution of the conflict. (This is wording from the standard we chose.) Click “Generate Passage.”
Read through the passage and make sure it meets your expectations. Click “Next.”
The next screen focuses on creating questions. Make sure your grade level and subject are filled in. In the Prompt box, you can type that you’d like questions to go along with the passage. If you’d like, you can remind Prompt Assistant of the wording of your standard to make sure the questions assess that standard.
In the Prompt box, you can tell it to create multiples of each question type (but no more than 20 total) so that you can decide which ones you’d like to use. Click “Generate Questions.”
You’ll see all of the questions you requested. Read through and decide which ones you’d like to use. For the ones you don’t want to use, simply uncheck the box. When you’re satisfied, click “Add Questions.”
Now you will have 2 new slides, 1 with your passage and 1 with your questions. Format however you’d like and then it’s ready to assign to your students!

A Parade of Activities Made By Teachers Just Like You

The activities below were selected from the Shared Library by Team TeacherMade. Remember, when you’re in a pinch, the Library is the first place to look.

Reading Comprehension (4 Short Passages)

Grades: 1–2
Subject: Reading
Description: This reading comprehension activity is ideal for K-2 classrooms! The passages feature repetitive vocabulary and follow a consistent structure, making them accessible for young readers. Students will read four short passages, each focused on a specific animal or insect, and then answer comprehension questions based on what they’ve read. Perfect for assessments, learning centers, or partner work!
Item Types: Multiple Choice

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Math Counting – Footballs and Leaves

Grades: PreK – K
Subject: Math
Description: How many footballs are in each group? In this activity, students will match the number of footballs to the correct numeral. Use it in centers to help students practice counting skills from 1 to 10 or to assess their understanding—perfect for football season!
Item Types: Matching, Number Box

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Next Dollar Up Task Cards

Grades: 3–5
Subject: Mathematics
Description: Rounding can be a challenging concept for students to grasp, making this activity perfect for reinforcing a lesson or checking for understanding! In this interactive exercise, students will round the amount of money to the nearest dollar to purchase the item shown. Pair this with manipulatives for a hands-on, real-life learning experience!
Item Types: Hot Spot

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

STAAR 2.0 Grade 8 RLA – The Photograph

Grades: 8
Subject: ELA
Description: Looking for a reading comprehension piece? Students will read a short passage about a boy who gains an appreciation for the Navajo tribe, then answer five questions to assess their understanding. These inferential and evaluative questions encourage students to think deeply about the historical fiction text they’ve just read.
Item Types: Dropdown Menu, Multiple Choice, Multiple Select

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

Ancient Egyptian Writing – Hieroglyphics

Grades: High School
Subject: World History
Description: Hieroglyphs have been decoded for hundreds of years, and now your students can try it too! In this interactive activity, students will learn about hieroglyphs and how they were first deciphered. Then, using provided decoding charts, they’ll decode nine messages of their own. Students are sure to enjoy this immersive exploration!
Item Types: Short Answer

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

A.3E Transformations of Linear Functions

Grades: High School
Subject: Algebra 1
Description: Do your students need help learning about Transformations of Linear Functions? Or are you looking for a ready-to-go lesson while you’re at professional development? You’re covered with this comprehensive activity on Transformations of Linear Functions which includes definitions, visual examples of transformations, and practice activities to help students solidify their understanding.
Item Types: Matching, Drag and Drop, Hot Spot, Graphing, Multiple Choice

TeacherMade Activity Link: Click Here to View and Copy

AI Prep Rally Newsletter – October 6th, 2024

Laura Bresko — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 21:03:47 +0000

Please Remember: Students don’t get TeacherMade accounts. You send them TeacherMade Activity links. Let’s keep it safe for our kids!!

To view the September 29, 2024 newsletter, please click here.

From an AI Prompt to An Assignment in 2 Minutes or Less

Prompting AI directly in TeacherMade is in beta testing. It will be released in the next week or so. It’s a super-easy feature under our Prompt Assistant. You’ll have two choices when you use the Prompt Assistant: Import and Generate.

Because we’re so excited about this new TIME_SAVING feature, we went ahead and used it to generate a few activities for you. Check out the “How Do You Do It?” and “AI-Prepped Activities” section below to learn more!

Prompt Assistant: Generate

Creating auto-graded activities for your students in TeacherMade is sooo easy. You’ll use a Super Prompt form, fill it out, and voila! Your TeacherMade activity will be ready to assign to your students.

And of course you’ll be able to make edits, regenerate, and format. So cool and a huge timesaver!! Now you won’t have to switch between programs; you’ll be able to do it all in TeacherMade!

Thank You for Using Our Help Assistant

TeacherMade’s new Help Assistant seems to be helping… that’s what our data says! And for those of you who are wondering if we monitor it, we do indeed. By looking at the questions you’re asking, we see where to add information to the knowledge base.

Thank you for using the Help Assistant. Please know that you can also contact support@teachermade.com. We’re here for you 8 am – 6 pm daily.

Shattered Illusions: A Family’s Hidden Truths

Grade: High School

Subject: English II

Standard: TEKS E2.7C – Analyze the function of dramatic conventions such as asides, soliloquies, dramatic irony, and satire.

Website: TeacherMade

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Visit the TeacherMade website and start a new Blank Activity in Slide View.
Click to open the NEW Prompt Assistant.
Today we are going to use it to generate our entire activity, so click “Passage and Questions”
The next screen is where you decide on the content of the passage. Fill in your grade level, subject, and any other necessary information. When you get to the box for the prompt, you’ll want to tell Prompt Assistant what standard you’re working on. Since we were working on dramatic conventions, we chose genre “drama” and then in the prompt box we told it to create a passage to meet the following standard that we provided.
A passage will be generated for you. You should read through it and see if you like it. If you don’t, you can have it regenerate until you have something you like. Then click “Next.”
Now we will create the questions. In the prompt box, if there is a certain part of the standard to focus on, include that here. We told it to make sure to analyze dramatic conventions. Select the number of each question type you would like to include and click “Regenerate Questions.”
From here you can go through and decide which questions you’d like to use in your assignment. The ones you don’t want, simply uncheck the box. Then click “Add Questions.”
You will now have a blank slide, a slide with your passage, and a slide with your questions. You can either delete the first slide, or use it as an introduction slide (that’s what we did!). Do any additional formatting you’d like and your assignment is ready for students!

7.13B Organisms Maintaining Balance

Grade: 7

Subject: Science

Standard: TEKS 7.13B – Describe and relate responses in organisms that may result from internal stimuli such as wilting in plants and fever or vomiting in animals that allow them to maintain balance

Website: TeacherMade

Tool: TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant: Generate

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open a New Blank Activity in “slide view” in TeacherMade.
Click the green “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button.
Select the “Passage and Questions” button.
Enter the grade level and subject you want a passage for. In the “Prompt” box, paste in the text of the academic standard or specific topic.
Read over the passage and make any edits right in the Prompt Assistant window. (You might want to delete the first sentence where it says “Here’s a passage…”) Then click “Next.”
On the next page, tell Prompt Assistant how many of each kind of question you want it to make. In the “Prompt” box, enter any additional instructions or information you want it to consider. Click the “Regenerate Questions” button.
Click the check boxes beside the questions you want to use. Click the “Add Questions” button when you are finished.
TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant creates one slide with your passage on it, and another with your questions. After reviewing and putting on your finishing touches, it’s ready to use!

5th Grade Financial Literacy – Gross vs. Net Income

Grade: 5

Subject: Mathematics

Standard: TEKS 5.10B – Explain the difference between gross income and net income.

Website: Perplexity

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open Perplexity using the link.
Tell Perplexity to create a 5th grade passage with math problems for your standard and skill–we used a financial literacy standard.
If the passage looks good, highlight the passage, copy, and paste it onto a slide in a TeacherText box in TeacherMade.
Click the “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button in TeacherMade, select “Import Content,” and copy and paste the math problems that Perplexity made. Click Go!
Paste everything into the Prompt Assistant, adjust if needed, and click Go!
Review the activity and make any edits or formatting changes you want to make. We decided to break the passage into 3 slides in TeacherMade. Your activity is ready to go!

Solving Systems of Linear Equations with Gaussian Elimination

Grade: 11

Subject: Algebra 2

Standard: TEKS 2A.3B – Solve systems of three linear equations in three variables by using Gaussian elimination, technology with matrices, and substitution

Website: Pi

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Find a good YouTube video for the lesson that aligns with your standard.
Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade, insert the video, and add a title and instructions.
Go to Pi.ai and paste in the URL of the YouTube video. Ask Pi to create comprehension questions about the video.
Go to TeacherMade and open a New Blank Activity in the “slide view.” Insert the video.
Click the “Prompt Assistant (NEW)” button in TeacherMade, click “Import Content,” and paste the comprehension questions from Pi into the box. Click Go! TeacherMade will format the questions for you on a new slide.
Return to Pi and past the text of the academic standard for the video. Ask Pi to create some math problems to assess the standard.
Copy the problems it creates and paste into TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant. Click the Go! button. TeacherMade will create a new slide and format the math problems for you.
Review the answers, edit the layout, and assign it to your students. Done!

Checks and Balances: Keeping Power in Check

Grade: 8

Subject: Social Studies

Standard: TEKS 8.15D – Analyze how the U.S. Constitution reflects the principles of limited government, republicanism, checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, popular sovereignty, and individual rights.

Website: Twee

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Start on the Twee website by clicking the link provided.
For this example, we are using a YouTube video so scroll down to Audio & Video Question Creator, and click there.
Paste the link for your YouTube video into the box. Decide what question type you want to use, and also select your grade level. Then click “Do the Magic!”
Twee will populate 7 questions of your selected type to go along with your video. Read over the questions and answers to check for accuracy.
Open a New TeacherMade Activity in Slide View. On the first slide use the “insert” and use Teacher Text to write directions, and also insert the video on that slide.
Now open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant and paste in the questions and answer key from Twee.
A new slide will generate with your questions and correct answers already marked. Check them over one more time to make sure there aren’t any mistakes.
Go ahead and jazz up the slides to your liking and it’s ready for your students!

Beyond Literal: Diving into Figurative Language

Grade: 4

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 4.10D – Describe how the author’s use of imagery, literal and figurative language such as simile and metaphor, and sound devices such as alliteration and assonance achieves specific purposes.

Website: QuestionWell

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Navigate to the QuestionWell website by clicking on the link. Click “Try it now.”
Fill in the boxes at the top of the page to choose how QuestionWell will prepare your assignment. We chose 10 multiple choice questions about figurative language at a 4th grade level based on a video.
If you’re using a video, find the one you’d like to use and paste the link into the “based on” box. Click “Generate Questions”. Note: If you’re not using a video this is where you would insert whatever text, file or website you’re using instead.
Read over the questions that QuestionWell generates for you. Check to make sure that they are all accurate and assess the intended skills. Click to check all of the questions you’d like to use for your autograded TeacherMade Activity and click “Export”. We exported to Microsoft Word, but you can choose whatever works best for you. Be sure to tell it to include the answer key.
Open a New Blank TeacherMade Activity in Slide View. On the first slide use the “insert” tool to type your directions and your video.
Click to open the TeacherMade PromptAssistant: Import (found on the menu bar) and paste all of your questions and answer key into the box and click “Go!” You’ll have a new slide with all of your questions made interactive. Your answer key will also be completed. All you have to do is check that everything is correct and formatted to your liking.
Then assign it to your students!

A Parade of TeacherMade Activities Shared By Other Teachers

The activities below were selected from the Shared Library by Team TeacherMade. Remember, when you’re in a pinch, the Library is the first place to look.

Autumn Leaves Matching

Grades: K–2
Subject: Mathematics/Pattern Recognition
Description: This activity is perfect for the fall season! Students will begin by examining two rows of leaves, clicking on the matching leaf in each row. Next, they’ll move on to a full page of leaves, where they’ll select the two that are identical. Students are sure to enjoy this colorful and engaging matching exercise!
Item Types: Hot Spot

Link: Click Here!

Subject Verb Agreement 2

Grades: K–2
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: Teaching subject-verb agreement? In this activity, students will read a sentence and choose the correct verb to match the singular or plural subject. It’s an ideal practice activity for learning centers or as an exit slip after the lesson!
Item Types: Drag and Drop

Link: Click Here!

Multiple Meaning Words

Grades: 3–5
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: Multiple meanings can be tricky for students, especially English language learners, but Teachermade has you covered! In this activity, students will read a sentence and choose the correct meaning of the underlined word from two options. It’s a great way to strengthen skills with homonyms and context clues! With 10 questions to try, this is perfect for use as a bellringer, practice, or assessment.
Item Types: Multiple Choice

Link: Click Here!

A Northern Paiute Legend about the North Star

Grades: 6–8
Subject: English/Language Arts
Description: Perfect for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, this interactive activity focuses on the Northern Paiute Tribe. Students will start by reading a brief introduction of the tribe, and after they will listen to their legend of the North Star. Afterward, they will answer a variety of questions—multiple select, multiple choice, true/false, and open-ended—based on what they’ve learned.
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, True/False, Open Answer

Link: Click Here!

Should We Replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day?

Grades: High School
Subject: Social Studies
Description: Do you think we should replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day? Students will begin by reading about how some states have stopped celebrating Columbus Day and started recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead. They will then listen to a 2019 NPR report on the controversy. Afterward, students will answer questions based on the reading passage and map. This activity is sure to spark debate!
Item Types: Dropdown, Number, Multiple Select, True/False, Multiple Choice, Open Answer

Link: Click Here!

8.2C Convert Between Decimal and Scientific Notation

Grades: 6–8
Subject: Mathematics/Algebra 1
Description: Converting between decimals and scientific notation can be tricky, but TeacherMade makes it easier! In this all-in-one lesson, students will first learn why scientific notation is important, then move on to converting whole numbers and decimals with clear, guided instruction. Still need extra help? A review video is available, followed by questions to assess their understanding. You can use the entire activity or just certain slides, depending on your students’ needs!
Item Types: Matching, Drag and Drop, Hot Spot, Multiple Select, Multiple Choice, Algebra/Formula, Number

Link: Click Here!

AI Prep Rally Newsletter – September 29, 2024

Laura Bresko — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:08:10 +0000

Please Remember: Students don’t get TeacherMade accounts. You send them TeacherMade Activity links. Let’s keep it safe for our kids!!

To view the September 22, 2024 newsletter, please click here.

Sad greetings from Asheville, NC. Since the region is in the news for the devastation from Hurricane Helene, I thought I’d give you a firsthand account. My husband and I go to Asheville in the summers to escape the worst of the Florida heat and hurricanes. We’ve been going to “God’s country” for at least 15 years.

We did escape the heat this summer, but not the disaster of hurricanes. I can say that the devastation is complete in a region that has never, ever experienced such an event. We get the rains up there– I believe the Southern Appalachians are technically a temperate rainforest, but 12 inches in 48 hours will overwhelm anything!! The surface area of a mountain is huge; the rains fall fast and the water goes downhill. The tiniest of creeks and streams swell as they feed the region’s ancient rivers. The French Broad River, one of the oldest in the world and around which Asheville was built, grew to 20 times its depth and overflowed into everything. So did the Swannanoa River, the Nolichucky north of town that took out I-26, and the Pigeon out west of Asheville that took out I-40.

It will be at least a week before power and cell services are restored. Municipal water is another issue entirely. Could be a month– or more as the water treatment plant and infrastructure must be repaired and rebuilt. The only bit of grace the mountains are receiving is cooler temperatures. Anyone who’s ever experienced a hurricane will tell you the days after are the insult of the injurious storm– a meteorological middle finger as it leaves your region. Now you must survive high heat and humidity with no power.

Which brings me to SC and GA. We were able to escape back home to Fernandina Beach, Florida. As we cautiously made our way off the mountains down into SC late Friday afternoon when the roadway was cleared of fallen trees, the temperature soared. It went from the high 60s to the middle 80s in Greenville, SC under cloudy skies. and it only got warmer as we traveled downstate. It wasn’t until we were 72 miles into SC that we finally saw businesses with electricity. In GA and FL where thousands were still without power, it was 80 degrees at 10 pm, well after sunset. Though Asheville is making the news, ALL of the communities in the path of Hurricane Helene are hurting. Surely this will be the costliest weather-related disaster in US history.

What can you do? Besides donations and prayers, you can reduce your own carbon footprint and that of your school. It sounds like I’m preaching, but there is literally nothing else to be done. Hurricane Helene was a weak tropical system off the Yucatan peninsula. In 48 hours it became a Category 4 hurricane when it reached 85 degree waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The theory is that the oceans absorb much of the heat in the atmosphere trapped by the particles from the burning of fossil fuels. Therefore the storms aren’t going away until the oceans cool down. Less particulates in the atmosphere = cooler ocean temperatures = fewer devastating storms.

As a TeacherMader, thank you for using less paper– using less resources and/or “greener” resources is the key to a safer future for everyone. Online learning is not yet green but its on its way. Amazon Web Services is using renewable energy for many of its servers, but it can be doing more. (It’s where TeacherMade is hosted.) Microsoft and Google are also actively moving to renewables. Do what you can where you can; our world will be grateful for the help. — Laura Bresko, CEO

1 Activity = X Assignments

It’s time for some Fall Clean-Up! Instead of copying an activity for every assignment you make, you may want to follow the tips in this video to use one activity in many assignments. You’ll be so much happier with a more organized My Activities view.

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So Many Useful Sites Using AI

This week, we continue with ideas for how to use other AI apps in conjunction with TeacherMade. We’ve created 6 new TeacherMade activities using 6 different sites to generate content for your TeacherMade activities. We’ve even some of these sites on our FreeTech4Teachers blog site, if you’re interested in learning more.

Introduction to Newton’s Laws of Motion

Grade: 8 or High School

Subject: Physics

Standard: TEKS P.4D (Calculate the effect of forces on objects, including the law of inertia, the relationship between force and acceleration, and the nature of force pairs between objects using methods, including free-body force diagrams)

Website: SlidesGo and Gemini

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Visit the free SlidesGo site by clicking on the link. SlidesGo uses A.I. to make presentations.
Tell SlidesGo the topic or standard you’re working on and what kind of slides you would like. We said we wanted a colorful slideshow about Newton’s laws of motion.
Look over the presentation and make any necessary edits and formatting changes in the SlidesGo app. We added a blank slide for a YouTube video. Download the presentation as a PDF.
Upload the PDF into a new TeacherMade activity in Slide View.
Insert a video into the presentation in TeacherMade if desired.
Open Gemini and paste in the text from the PDF of the presentation and the transcript from the YouTube video. Ask Gemini to make assessment questions.
Open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant and paste your questions and answer key that Gemini created for you. Click Go!
A new slide will be created by TeacherMade with your questions already formatted for you. Double check that everything is to your liking and make any formatting changes, then you’re all done!

Texas and the Fight for Freedom:
The Role of Texas in the Mexican War of Independence

Grade: 4

Subject: Social Studies

Standard: TEKS 4.2D (Identify Texas’ role in the Mexican War of Independence and the war’s impact on the development of Texas)

Website: Khanmigo

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Visit Khanmigo using the link provided.
Once you’re logged in as a teacher (it’s free!) Click on “Create” and then “Informational Text”
When prompted, fill in your grade level, topic, and text length and click “Help me write an informational text.”
Khanmigo will generate a text for you. Once it does so, look it over and make sure it meets your standards.
On the right side there is a place where you can click on the little eyes, the Khanmigo logo. This is where you can make changes, and also where you can ask it to create questions to go along with the text it just wrote for you. Tell Khanmigo to create some multiple choice questions with an answer key which go along with your passage.
Now move over to TeacherMade. Open a New Activity in Slide View. On your first couple of slides use TeacherText to insert your directions, reading passage, and any images you’d like to add.
Next open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant. Here you will copy and paste the questions and answer key from Khanmigo. Click Go!
You will now have your final slide with the questions and answer key completed for you! Make any finishing touches, and your activity is ready for your students!

Proportional Reasoning with Unit Rates Assessment

Grade: 7

Subject: Math

Standard: TEKS 7.4B (Calculate unit rates from rates in mathematical and real-world problems)

Website: TeachAid

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open the TeachAid A.I. using the link. Open “Create Lesson”.
Fill out the form specifying the standard you are assessing, themes, etc. Note: TeachAid already has many state standards included so you will probably find yours in the dropdown menu.
Generate the assessment. TeachAid will also create a review sheet and explanations of the solutions to each problem.
In TeacherMade, Open a New Blank activity in Slide View.
On the first slide, we used Teacher Text to insert the first half of the review sheet from TeachAid.
Now open the Prompt Assistant in TeacherMade and paste the first set of problems you made in TeachAid. Click Go!
TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant will add a preformatted slide with all of the answers added to the answer key. We repeated the same steps with the second half of the review sheet and problem set.
Double-check your work, make any formatting adjustments and add any pictures you want to use into TeacherMade, and it’s ready for students!

“Whispering Wind” and “City Lights” Poetry Analysis

Grade: 7

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 7.8B (Analyze the effect of rhyme scheme, meter, and graphical elements such as punctuation and capitalization in poems across a variety of poetic forms.)

Website: Brisk Teaching

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Click on the link to access the Brisk Teaching website. You’ll have to install the Chrome Extension, but don’t worry. It’s super easy.
Once you have the Chrome Extension installed, open Google Docs. You’ll see the Brisk Teaching logo in the bottom right corner. Click on it.
A box will open, click on Create. Then click Resource. From here you can choose your grade level and the standard you wish to cover. Also type some directions into the box. We chose 7th grade TEKS 7.8B. We told Brisk that we wanted 2 poems with 3-4 multiple choice questions for each poem to assess the standard. Click “Brisk it!”
Your resource will generate right in Google Docs. There will be a box on the right side where you can type any changes you’d like for Brisk to make for you.
Once you’re happy with your resource, TeacherMade in a new tab and start a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant and copy and paste whatever you’d like to be on your first slide. For us, that was directions, the first poem, and questions. Make sure to include the answer key. Click Go!
If you need another slide, open Prompt Assistant again, and repeat with the material for your next slide.
When you’ve got your entire resource in your TeacherMade activity you can format, add color and pictures then assign your autogradable activity to your students!

Area of Rectangle by Counting Side Lengths

Grade: 3

Subject: Mathematics

Standard: TEKS 3.6C (Determine the area of rectangles with whole number side lengths in problems using multiplication related to the number of rows times the number of unit squares in each row)

Website: EduAide

Tool: Assessment Measures content generator

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Find an appropriate YouTube video for the lesson that aligns with your standard.
Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade, insert the video, and add a title and instructions.
Go to EduAide and select the Assessment Measures tool. Paste the text of your academic standard and paste it into the topic box at the bottom. Select the different item types you want to use and click “Add to Workspace.” (We used the “True/False” and “Scenario-Based” Question tiles.)
Edit the assessment items it creates and click the copy button (overlapping squares).
Paste the items you want to use into TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant and click the Go! button.
Review the answers, edit the format, customize your TeacherMade activity (we added some pictures), and assign it to your students. Done!

Introduction to Supply and Demand

Grade: High School

Subject: Economics

Standard: TEKS E.2A (Understand the effect of changes in price on the quantity demanded and quantity supplied.)

Website: Nolej

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Log in to Nolej by clicking the link.
Click on Create Activities. First, give your activity a title. Now, you will be given a choice as to how you want to provide information. We used a YouTube video we wanted to use about Supply and Demand. Copy and paste the link. Click Generate.
You will need to click Edit Module. Nolej will show you a transcript of your video. Read over it and make sure it covers what you expected it to. Click Continue.
Click where it says “Ready” to view your activity. From here you can click “Edit” at the top and then click “Questions” on the left side. Read through the questions and delete any questions you don’t want to use.
Open a new tab for TeacherMade and then a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
On your first slide insert your directions and video. Then open Prompt Assistant. Our activity had a lot of questions, so we broke it into three slides. In your Prompt Assistant window, paste the first set of questions you’d like to use and then click Go!
Open Prompt Assistant again and repeat as necessary until you have pasted in all of your questions. Each time you click Go! in Prompt Assistant you will get a new slide.
Once everything is in your activity, you can format and make it look nice for your students. You’re all set!

A Parade of TeacherMade Activities Shared By Other Teachers

The activities below were selected from the Shared Library by Team TeacherMade. Remember, when you’re in a pinch, the Library is the first place to look.

Forms of Energy

Grades: K–2
Subject: Science
Description: This activity is perfect as a pre-assessment, post-assessment, or both! Students will analyze 10 photos and determine whether each object is producing light, thermal, or sound energy. It’s more challenging than it seems—they’ll need to think carefully before making their choices!
Item Types: Multiple Choice

Link: Click Here!

Cesar Chavez

Grades: K–2
Subject: Social Studies
Description: Discover the inspiring story of César Chávez! In this engaging activity, students will read a short passage highlighting Chávez’s role in improving conditions for farm workers. Afterward, they’ll answer five questions, including true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and drop-down selections. But that’s not all! Students will also identify two reasons from the passage why Chávez lost his farm and click on three ways the work conditions on the farm are described. This activity covers it all!
Item Types: True/False, Short Answer, Hot Spot, Dropdown Menu

Link: Click Here!

States of Matter

Grades: 3–5
Subject: Science
Description: Solid, liquid, or gas? In this interactive activity, students will examine a series of images and decide which state of matter each item belongs to by clicking on the correct answer. It’s the perfect chance for some collaborative learning—students can pair up to debate and discuss each object’s state, using clues like shape, volume, and particle behavior. It’s a great way to explore the world of matter while sharpening critical thinking and communication skills!
Item Types: Hot Spots

Link: Click Here!

The Wise Owl (Poetry, Play, Prose Comparison)

Grades: 6–8
Subject: ELA
Description: Poem, play, and prose! In this engaging activity, students will read a poem, a play, and a prose passage, all centered around the story of an owl who helps two squirrels become friends. Afterwards they will answer six compare and contrast questions based on the passage including the summary and theme. Since all three stories are told from different perspectives, this is also a fantastic opportunity to teach about narrative viewpoints!
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Multiple Select

Link: Click Here!

Human Brain Parts and Functions

Grades: 6–8
Subject: Science
Description: Need help teaching students about the lobes of the brain and their various functions? This activity begins with students watching an informative video on the cerebral cortex, exploring its anatomy and functions. Next, they will drag labels to identify the correct areas on a diagram of the brain. To wrap up, students will then match each function to the highlighted part of the brain. It’s a dynamic way to engage students in learning about this essential topic!
Item Types: Drag and Drop

Link: Click Here!

The Ghost Dance Wars and the Wounded Knee Massacre US.3A

Grades: HS
Subject: Social Studies
Description: Looking for an activity for Indigenous Peoples Day on October 14? Teachermade has you covered! This versatile slide deck can be used all at once or spread out over multiple days. It includes a bellringer, reading passages on The Ghost Dance Wars and the Wounded Knee Massacre, comprehension questions, and exit slips. Students will analyze artifacts, watch videos, read personal accounts, and even letters to President Biden. It’s truly a one-stop shop for your lesson!
Item Types: Open Answer, Drop Down Menu, Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, Hot Text, Drag and Drop, True/False

Link: Click Here!

Prep Rally Newsletter – September 22, 2024

Laura Bresko — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 06:16:46 +0000

Please Remember: Students don’t get TeacherMade accounts. You send them TeacherMade Activity links. Let’s keep it safe for our kids!!

To view the September 15, 2024 newsletter , please click here.

Happy Fall!! It’s hard to believe it was just two autumns ago when OpenAI made ChatGPT available to the public. And how usage has grown in that short time! The Walton Foundation commissioned Impact Research to do a survey of usage in education in February 2023 and again in April 2024. Check out this slide presentation to see how fast usage has grown among teachers, students, and parents. Spoiler alert: teachers are using AI the most!!

Over the last four issues of our AI Prep Rally newsletter, we’ve demonstrated how to use TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant to paste in content. We used wrapper sites like Magic School and generated materials via custom GPTs. On this first Fall weekend, we cut out the “middle men” and go straight to the LLM sources, like Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot.

Prompting LLMs directly is arguably the best bang for your buck!! You can get into a conversation with the AI, customize your content to specifically fit your needs, and possibly do it all for free. (Although… I pay for a ChatGPT subscription and it’s the smartest $20 I spend each month.) If you’re a control freak like me, then LLM prompting is the AI route you want to take!

1 Activity = X Assignments

Thank You for Using Our Help Assistant

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For Best Results: Use LLMs Directly

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the technical category into which ChatGPT, CoPilot, Claude, and Gemini fall.

This week, we’ve created 6 new TeacherMade activities by prompting the different LLMs directly. It’s fun, frustrating, and amazing when you first do it. But over time, you develop the skill known as AI prompting. We’ve been prompting for at least 18 months so we thought we’d lead the way for you. Enjoy!

The Settlement of Texas: Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo Influences

Grade: 7

Subject: Social Studies

Standard: TEKS 7.2F (Contrast Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo purposes for and methods of settlement in Texas.)

Website: ChatGPT

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open ChatGPT using the link.
Tell Chat that you would like to create a reading passage with some comprehension questions for students. We chose Texas settlements for 7th grade. Make sure you include your grade level.
Look over the assignment and guide Chat to make any changes you’d like.
Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade.
Use as many slides as you’d like to insert your reading passage. Use TeacherText and add images if you’d like.
Open PromptAssistant and paste your questions and answer key from ChatGPT. Click Go!
A new slide will be created for you. Look over the questions to make sure everything is correct. Do any additional formatting, and you’re finished!

TEKS 8.5C Periods and Groups on the Periodic Table

Grade: 8

Subject: Science

Standard: TEKS 8.3C (Interpret the arrangement of the Periodic Table, including groups and periods, to explain how properties are used to classify elements)

Website: ChatGPT

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Find an appropriate YouTube video for the lesson that aligns with your standard.
Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade, insert the video, and add a title and instructions.
Get the text of the academic standard from YouTube and paste it into ChatGPT.
Tell the ChatGPT to create fill-in-the-blank questions with an answer bank based on the standard.
Check the answers, then copy the questions and paste into TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant.
Click the Go! button.
Review and edit the format, customize your TeacherMade activity (we added a periodic table slide), and assign it to your students. Done!

The Impact of Social Media on Modern Communication

Grade: High School

Subject: English III

Standard: TEKS E3.4G (Evaluate details read to understand key ideas.)

Website: Claude

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Visit the Claude site by clicking on the link.
Tell Claude what standard you’re working on type of assignment you’d like to create. Including your grade level is also helpful. We said we wanted a reading passage for English III students focusing on key ideas and details with comprehension questions.
Read over the passage and questions that Claude gives you and make any necessary edits.
Open a new tab for TeacherMade and start a New Blank Activity in Slide View.
Use TeacherText to insert your passage. We used 2 slides for this since it was a little on the longer side.
Open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant and copy and paste your questions and answer key that Claude created for you. Click Go!
A new slide will be created with your questions all formatted for you. Double check that everything is to your liking. Format to make it look nice, then you’re all done!

TEKS 2A.6F Linear Inequalities with Absolute Value

Grade: High School

Subject: Algebra II

Standard: TEKS 2A.6F (Solve absolute value linear inequalities)

Website: Gemini

TeacherMade Link:

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open Gemini using the link.
Tell Gemini to create ten assessment items for your standard and skill–we focused on solving inequalities with absolute value by breaking them into two parts.
If the results look good, click the “Copy” button.
Start a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade.
Paste everything into the Prompt Assistant, adjust if needed, and click Go!
Review the activity and make any edits or formatting changes you want to make. We found 3 instructional videos and added them on new slides in TeacherMade in case students get stuck and need more help.
Your activity is ready to go!

Causes and Effects of the Boston Tea Party

Grade: 5

Subject: Social Studies

Standard: TEKS 5.2A (Analyze the causes and effects of events prior to and during the American Revolution including the taxation resulting from the French and Indian War and the colonist response to taxation such as the Boston Tea Party)

Website: Microsoft Copilot

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open Microsoft Copilot by clicking the link.
Tell Copilot that you want it to find a video and create some comprehension questions on a topic that you’re studying. Include your grade level. We chose causes and effects of the Boston Tea Party.
Watch the suggested video and read through the questions. If all looks good, open a new tab for TeacherMade.
Start a new Blank Activity on TeacherMade in Slide View.
On the first slide use Teacher Text to insert your directions and also insert your video link.
Click to open PromptAssistant, then copy and paste all of your questions and answers from Copilot. Click Go!
Look over your activity and make any formatting changes or edits you’d like. You’re done!

Mixtures vs. Solutions

Grade: 4

Subject: Science

Standard: TEKS 4.5B (Compare and contrast a variety of mixtures, including solutions.)

Website: Claude

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open the Claude A.I. using the link.
Give Claude the standard that you’re working on and tell it that you’d like it to create a passage based on the standard.
Copy the passage that Claude created. In TeacherMade, Open a New Blank activity in Slide View.
On the first slide, we used Teacher Text to insert our passage and format.
Now go back to Claude and ask it to make assessment questions about the passage. Be sure to specify what type of questions and how many.
Now open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant and paste in the questions and answers that Claude provided for you. Click Go!
TeacherMade will make a second slide in your activity with your assessment questions. (We repeated this process with different question types so they would appear on different slides.)
And that’s it. Double-check your work, make any formatting adjustments and add any pictures you want, and it’s ready for students!

Hooray for Ready-to-Assign TeacherMade Activities!!

The activities below were selected from the Shared Library by Team TeacherMade. Remember, when you’re in a pinch, the Library is the place to look for 5-star resources shared by other teachers to meet your prep needs.

Reading Comprehension

Grades: K – 2
Description: This reading comprehension activity is perfect for K-2 classrooms! The passages not only feature repetitive vocabulary, but they also follow a consistent structure. Students will read four short passages, each centered around a specific animal, and then answer comprehension questions based on what they’ve read. This activity can be used for assessments, in learning centers, or as partner work, offering versatile ways to engage young learners.
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Matching

Link: Click here!

Money Practice

Grades: K – 2
Description: Are your students learning to identify coins and their values? Then this activity is perfect for you! Students will count the coins and select the correct amount. Add manipulatives for an engaging lesson, or use it as practice or an assessment. The possibilities are endless!
Item Types: Multiple Choice

Link: Click here!

Multiplication Facts 1 through 10

Grades: 3 – 5
Description: Practice, practice, practice! Starting in third grade, students are expected to master their multiplication facts, and fourth and fifth graders often need a refresher. In this interactivity, students will complete a page for each multiplication fact from 1 to 10. Track their progress by observing their time on task. If they need extra practice, explore TeacherMade’s Shared Library for additional multiplication activities!
Item Types: Short answer

Link: Click here!

Benjamin Franklin Worksheet

Grades: 3- 5
Description: This informational passage is all about Benjamin Franklin, offering a great opportunity to teach students about one of our Founding Fathers, who was also an inventor, ambassador, and writer. After reading, students will answer matching and multiple-choice questions to assess their understanding. It’s also a perfect way to introduce or review text features, such as subheadings, glossary, and pictures!
Item Types: Matching, Multiple Choice

Link: Click here!

Finding Slope – 3 Ways

Grades: 6 – 8
Description: Did your students fully grasp the lesson on slope and rate of change? This interactive activity lets them show their understanding in several ways. They’ll start by finding the slope of a graphed line, then match pairs of ordered pairs with the slope of the line through them. Next, they’ll determine which triangles can be graphed on the same line and calculate their slope. Finally, they’ll find the slope or rate of change from tables. This activity offers multiple opportunities for students to showcase their thinking and demonstrate how well they understood the lesson!
Item Types: Drag and drop, Matching, Short Answer, Multiple Choice

Link: Click here!

Beginning Orchestra Quarter One Assessment

Grades: 6 – 8, 9 – 12
Description: In this comprehensive music assessment, students will be asked to match musical symbols to their names, identify and type the note or rest along with its beat value, name the notes for a given instrument, and label the parts of an instrument. This versatile assessment can be tailored to your needs—use it in full or choose specific sections to focus on particular skills. Whether for individual practice, a formal evaluation, or as a review tool, this assessment provides a thorough check of your students’ musical knowledge!
Item Types: Matching, Short Answer

Link: Click here!

Life Cycle of a Star

Grades: 9 -12
Description: This activity covers the various life cycles of a star and quizzes students on each one! Students begin by dragging and dropping star types to match their descriptions, followed by answering five dropdown questions about a star’s life. For the open-response section, they’ll compare and contrast a black hole and a neutron star. Next, they’ll fill in the stages of a star’s life cycle and finish with four multiple-choice questions. This interactive and engaging activity goes beyond the ordinary, offering a fun way for students to explore different question types while learning!
Item Types: Dropdown, Drag and drop, Open Answer, Multiple Choice

Link: Click here!

3A Earth-Sun Relationships – Days, Years, and Seasons

Grades: 9 -12
Description: With daylight saving time approaching, this activity is perfect for your students! In this interactive lesson, they’ll explore the relationship between the sun and the Earth, learning what creates days, years, and seasons. After reading and analyzing the informational graphics, students will answer various question types to assess their understanding. This engaging activity is sure to get your students thinking!
Item Types: Checkbox/Multiselect, Open Answer, Dropdown, Multiple Choice

Link: Click here!

Prep Rally Newsletter – September 15, 2024

Laura Bresko — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 07:03:19 +0000

To view the September 8, 2024 newsletter , please click here.

Why Should I Add a Second Email Address to My Account??

At the start of every semester, our Support Team gets too many emails that start with “I’ve changed schools…” or “I’ve changed my name…” or “I can’t remember…” They’re emails from busy teachers who don’t have another way into their TeacherMade account because their school email address has changed.

To avoid wasting the time to email the Support Team and wait for a response, even though we’re really quick, take a moment to ADD A SECOND EMAIL to your TeacherMade account. You never know when that will come in handy!

Cut Support Time with Help Assistant

TeacherMade’s new Help Assistant is pretty smart– and fast!! It will help you learn a tool, explain a feature, and answer just about every TeacherMade-related question you can throw at it, especially if you write in full sentences.

Not the answer you were looking for? You can always contact support@teachermade.com. We’re here for you 8 am – 6 pm daily.

Chat GPTs Do The Prompting For You

Chat GPT has a cool feature– you can save your best prompts and share them with others. They’re called GPTs and there are 100,000s that have already been shared on the Chat GPT site.

This week, we’ve created 6 new TeacherMade activities using GPTs made by other teachers to show you what’s possible! Discover more about how GPTs can simplify your workflow.

Understanding Extensive and Intensive Properties
Prep time: 5 minutes

Grade: HS

Subject: Chemistry

Standard: TEKS C.4B (Identify extensive properties such as mass and volume and intensive properties such as density and melting point)

AI Tool: Chat GPT: Chemistry Tutor GPT

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open the “Chemistry Tutor” GPT using the tool link.
Tell the GPT to create a reading passage with an assessment using true/false, multiple choice, and open answer questions for TEKS C.4B.
Start a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade.
Copy the output from the GPT to the TeacherMade Prompt Assistant and adjust if needed, and click Go! (Note–we repeated this step for each part of our activity so they would appear on separate slides.)
Review the activity, make edits or add formatting, then assign it to your students. Done!

Get Fit with the F.I.T.T. Principle
Prep time: 6 minutes

Grade: 7

Subject: Physical Education/Health

Standard: TEKS 6.8B (describe the frequency, intensity, time, and type (FITT) principle and how it improves fitness in relation to aerobic and anaerobic activities)

AI Tool: ChatGPT: Physical Education GPT

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Find an appropriate YouTube video for the lesson that aligns with your standard.
Open a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade, insert the video, and add a title and instructions.
Get the video transcript from YouTube and paste it into the “Physical Education GPT” on ChatGPT.
Tell the GPT to create fill-in-the-blank questions based on the video.
Copy the GPT-generated questions and paste the problems into TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant.
Click the Go! button.
Review, customize your TeacherMade activity, and assign it to your students. Done!

Real-World Problem Set: Planning a School Field Trip

Prep time: 4 minutes

Grade: 5

Subject: Math

Standard: TEKS 5.3A (Estimate to determine solutions to mathematical and real-world problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.)

AI Tool: Chat GPT: Math GPT

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open the “Math” GPT using the tool link.
Tell the GPT to create a 5-question problem set about a real-world scenario for your standard–we used TEKS 5.3A.
If the results look good, click the “Copy” button.
Start a New Blank Activity in TeacherMade.
Paste everything into the Prompt Assistant, adjust if needed, and click Go!
Review the activity and make any edits or formatting changes you want to make. We used the same GPT to make some clip art and inserted it into our activity in TeacherMade. Done!

Paraphrasing Practice

Prep time: 6 minutes

Grade: 5

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 5.7D (paraphrase texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order)

AI Tool: Chat GPT: Kids Story Creator

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open the Kids Story Creator tool using the link provided.
Tell the GPT what type of stories and questions you would like to create. Told it to create short paragraphs with multiple choice questions for students to practice paraphrasing. Based on TEKS 5.7D.
If you like what it produces, highlight what you want on your first slide and click “copy”.
Open a New Blank TeacherMade activity in Slide View.
Click the green button to open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant. Paste anything you’d like on the first slide in the box, edit as needed, and click Go!
If you have more than one slide, open the Prompt Assistant again and repeat step 5 as necessary.
Review the activity and format however you’d like to make it look nice. Done!

How Are Landforms Created?
Prep time: 6 minutes

Grade: HS

Subject: World Geography

Standard: TEKS WG.4B (Describe different landforms such as plains, mountains, and islands and the physical processes that cause their development.)

AI Tool: Chat GPT: Geography Geo

TeacherMade Link: CLICK HERE

Open the Geography Geo GPT using the provided link.
Tell Geography Geo which standard you’re working on and any guidance you have as far as what you’d like to create. If you don’t know, it will give you suggestions based on the standard. We decided on landform descriptions with multiple choice and multi-select question types based on WG.4B.
Once you’re happy with what you’ve created, open a New Blank TeacherMade activity in Slide View.
For our activity we inserted Teacher Text on the first 2 slides. The first one has directions, the second has landform descriptions. We copy and pasted this TeacherText directly from Geography Geo.
When you’re ready to insert your questions, open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant. Copy and paste your questions along with the correct answers into Prompt Assistant and click Go!
A new slide will be generated with your questions all set up to be autograded when you assign it! (Be sure to check that everything transferred correctly)
Lastly, do any editing and formatting that you’d like and you’re finished!

Analyzing Plot with Pixar
Prep time: 5 minutes

Grade: 6

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 6.7C (Analyze plot elements, including rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and non-linear elements such as flashback.)

AI Tool: Chat GPT: Lesson Planner by Fetchy

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Open Lesson Planner by Fetchy using the Tool link.
Give Lesson Planner the standard that you’re working on and tell it that you’d like it to create a worksheet or assessment for students. If you’d like to use a video or anything, now is the time to express that. It will provide you with some suggestions. We used 6.7C and wanted a plot video with questions.
Look through Lesson Planner’s suggestions and make any tweaks necessary.
When you’re happy with what you’ve created move over to TeacherMade and open a New Blank activity in Slide View.
On our first slide we used Teacher Text to insert our directions and also embedded our video to make it easy for students to watch.
Now open TeacherMade’s Prompt Assistant and paste in the questions and answers that Lesson Planner provided for you. Click Go!
You will now have a second slide and the hard part is done. Now make any formatting adjustments and it’s ready for students.

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Grade 1 Math Addition and Subtraction Drag and Drop

Grade 1, Grade 2
Description: This math activity can be used for practice, as a bell ringer, or even as an assessment! Students will drag the answer to each addition or subtraction problem to match it with the correct equation on the tree. It’s a quick and fun way to assess your students’ skills!
Item Types: Drag and drop

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Parts of a Computer

Grades 3 – 5
Description: In this interactive lesson, students will explore the main parts of a computer. After completing the reading, they will be able to identify the key components and describe their uses. They will then be assessed by identifying computer parts through a fill-in-the-blank and matching activity. Students will also connect wires, locate parts in a photo, and answer six true-or-false questions. This is a fantastic way to gauge their computer knowledge at the start of the year!
Item Types: Hot spot. True/False, Matching, Short Answer

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International Day of Sign Language

Grades 3 – 5
Description:
Item Types: International Sign Language Day is on September 23rd, and this activity is a great way for your students to learn all about it! Through this interactive lesson, students will explore the history of sign language and the significance of International Sign Language Day. They’ll complete a fun drag-and-drop activity, answer four multiple-choice questions based on the passage, and decode a message using the sign language alphabet. It’s a fun and educational way to celebrate the day!
Item Types: Drag and drop, Multiselect, Short Answer

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The Important Book Poetry

Grades 3 – 5
Description: This interactive activity is perfect for getting to know your students! After listening to The Important Book, they will read a sample poem and use a flow map to create their own. Once they’ve written their poem, they will add a picture that represents it. You can then hold a poetry recital or have students share their work with a partner for a listening and speaking grade. The possibilities are endless!
Item Types: Short Answer, Open Answer

Link: Click here!

Reading Check-ins

Grades 6 – 8
Description: Looking for quick reading check-ins for your class? In this interactive activity, students will read short excerpts and poems, then answer reading comprehension questions covering main ideas, details, context clues, inferences, and descriptions. Each excerpt includes multiple-choice questions and an open answer question. Use this as practice, a bell ringer, or even an assessment!
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Open Answer

Link: Click here!

Understanding the Fall Equinox

Grades 6 – 8
Description: Looking for ways to teach your students about the Fall Equinox on September 22nd? TeacherMade has you covered! Students will begin by reading about the seasons and how they form, then dive into the significance of the Fall Equinox. To assess their understanding, they will complete four multiple-selection and ten true/false questions. Finally, they’ll match the correct dates with Equinoxes and Solstices using an image in the interactivity, making it an excellent way to evaluate their knowledge of diagrams.
Item Types: Multiselect, True/False, Matching

Link: Click here!

Langston Hughes – American Poet

Grades 9 – 12
Description: In this interactive lesson, students will learn about the American poet Langston Hughes. Following the reading, they will answer six multiple-choice questions and then analyze his poem “Dreams.” This is a meaningful way to kick off the school year, inspiring students to pursue their own dreams.
Item Types: Multiple Choice, Open Answer

Link: Click here!

TEKS A.10A Add & Subtract Polynomials

Grades 9-12
Description: In this activity, students will use algebra tiles to solve operations with polynomials. They will first learn how to use the tiles, then apply their skills to add and subtract them. This is not only a lesson but also includes practice problems to reinforce their understanding. Afterward, students will solve equations by answering multiple-choice, short answer, and drag-and-drop questions, applying what they’ve learned.
Item Types: Algebra/Formula, Drag and drop, Multiple Choice
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Thanksgiving Table Trouble!

Grade: 4

Subject: Math

Standard: TEKS 4.4H (Solve with fluency one- and two-step problems involving multiplication and division, including interpreting remainders)

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Thanksgiving Unplugged

Grade: 5

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 5.9C (Explain structure in drama such as character tags, acts, scenes, and stage directions.)

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Proportional v. Non Proportional Relationships – Planning a Turkey Feast

Grade: 8

Subject: Math

Standard: TEKS 8.5H (Identify examples of proportional and non-proportional functions that arise from mathematical and real-world problems)

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The Turkey Whisperer

Grade: 6

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 6.9D (Describe how the author’s use of figurative language such as metaphor and personification achieves specific purposes.)

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Therapeutic Electrical Interventions in the Muscular System

Grade: High School

Subject: Anatomy and Physiology

Standard: TEKS AP.8B (Investigate the therapeutic uses and effects of external sources of electricity on the body system)

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Thanksgiving Perspectives: Traditions and Truths

Grade: High School

Subject: English

Standard: TEKS E2.8D (Analyze how the author’s use of language informs and shapes the perception of readers)

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Thanksgiving Missing Numbers

Grades: K–2

Subject: Math

Item Types: Number Box

Thanksgiving Daily Fix It Up #3

Grades: 3–5

Subject: English/Language Arts

Item Types: Short Answer

Thanksgiving Math Puzzles

Grades: 3–5

Subject: Math

Item Types: Number Box

Thanksgiving Anagrams 1

Grades: 6–8

Subject: English/Language Arts

Description: Students will have fun with these clever Thanksgiving anagrams! They’ll read the Thanksgiving-themed clues or phrases to help them solve the anagram to the left. With twenty-five anagrams to solve, they’ll be engaged the whole time! Great for partner work or independent practice!

Item Types: Short Answer

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

Grades: High School

Subject: English/Language Arts

Item Types: Multiple Choice, Open Response, Drag and Drop

Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt (Geometry)

Grades: High School

Subject: Geometry

Description: Get your students involved in a Thanksgiving scavenger hunt! Using clues, students will identify geometry terms that start with each letter in the word “Thanksgiving.” They may even do a little internet searching to figure out some clues if you wish!

Item Types: Short Answer

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Adages and Puns: Fun With Words

Grade: 5

Subject: ELA

Standard: TEKS 5.3D ( Identify, use, and explain the meaning of adages and puns.)

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Sand Dunes – Why Are They Here?

Grade: 5

Subject: Science

Standard: TEKS 5.7B (Recognize how landforms such as deltas, canyons, and sand dunes are the result of changes to Earth’s surface by wind, water, or ice)

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The Economics of Vehicle Acquisition: Ownership versus Leasing

Grade: High School

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