Elevate your class experience this holiday season by selecting ONE AI tool to try or learn more about. Engage students with clever festive riddles and word problems you create using ChatGPT, seek personalized gift recommendations from MagicSchool, or learn about winter holidays using School AI.
School AI is a free tool that allows your students to have safe, monitored interactions with AI learning activities* including:
Personalized Engagement: Chat with historic figures or explore books to tailor lessons and captivate students.
Real-time Insight: Monitor student activity during AI sessions for immediate feedback and understanding.
Dynamic Learning: Launch interactive experiences effortlessly, allowing students to type or speak responses.
*This site is currently under the LMSD approval process. Explore these features by modeling as a teacher.
Watch Eric Curts, Edtech Guru, share why School AI's "Spaces" is an invaluable AI tools for classrooms. (start at 6:51)
Dive into the festive spirit with 'Winter Holidays Around The World!' I created my "own" space for you to experience Spaces from the student lens. Ask your class to generate questions to ask and display the chat for all to see.
Explore the unique traditions, foods, and meanings behind each holiday. It's a perfect way to introduce multicultural awareness and foster curiosity during the holiday season.
Improved lesson planning tool with easier formatting for sharing.
Raina, the AI chatbot, offers suggestions and assistance.
Users can build customized resources and export to Google forms
MagicSchool's YouTube Video Questions, Multiple Choice Assessments, and Reading Quiz tools have a new ability—Export to Google Forms
Struggling to find the perfect gift? Let's AI magic give you some suggestions!
ChatGPT is a creative thought partner that can help you brainstorm fun class activities, build lessons, and so much more!
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New to ChatGPT? Watch this quick video to see how it works and get ideas for great prompts.
Below are some fun holiday-themed ideas for you to get started with. For each idea, we've included a fill-in-the-blank prompt that you can copy and paste into ChatGPT, along with samples so you can see what ChatGPT might generate.
Create fun holiday riddles for brain breaks or inspiration for your students to create their own.
Prompt:
I am a (enter grade level) teacher and I'd like your help writing winter themed riddles for my students. I'd like the riddles to be challenging but fun. Students will have no longer than (enter time limit) to solve the riddle. Please make sure all content is appropriate for their grade level, and specific to the holiday season. Please provide the solutions for each riddle.
Below are examples from using this prompt in ChatGPT.
Keep the Conversation going:
Change the length of the riddle: Make the riddles each 6 lines.
Change the difficulty: Make the riddles more rigorous (less rigorous).
Raise engagement by changing your real world problems to be holiday or winter themed.
Prompt:
Can you please help me create five winter and holiday themed word problems for my (grade level and subject) students. We are currently learning to (copy and paste standards/ learning objective). Please provide the solutions to each problem.
Below are examples from using this prompt in ChatGPT.
Science: Christmas Tree Ecosystem
Scenario: Imagine a Christmas tree farm as a small ecosystem. How might the competition among trees for sunlight and nutrients affect their growth?
Reading: "The Snowman's Tale"
Read the following passage and determine the author's purpose:
"In the quiet, snowy night, a lonely snowman stood in the backyard. He watched as children played in the snow, and he longed to join in the fun. The author describes the snowman's feelings and observations in a poetic manner, conveying a sense of yearning and nostalgia." (summary of passage)
Question: What is the author's purpose in describing the snowman's perspective?
Math: Gift Wrapping
Samantha is wrapping rectangular gift boxes for her friends. The length of the gift box is 10 inches, and the width is 6 inches. What is the area of the wrapping paper needed for one gift box?
Keep the Conversation going:
Change the formatting of your questions: Provide the information in table format with a space for the problem, student work, solution and explanation.
Change the difficulty: Rewrite questions 3 and 5 to have a higher rigor.