GIANT AI Guide for Educators: Creative STEM Learning with AI - UNIT #3
GIANT AI UNIT #3: Design your own Would You Rather Deck of Cards
This unit supports elementary school teachers to integrate AI literacy and prompt engineering as part of their literacy, debate, or science curriculum. You may choose to allocate one or multiple sessions to this unit. Here we will describe one session of this unit and include ideas you may expand to multiple sessions.
START YOUR LESSON: Start your lesson by inviting your students to play a round of the “Would You Rather” game using GIANT Deck of Cards designed by GIANT kids. Here we share a few examples of these cards:
Next, invite your students to think of their own Would You Rather questions by asking questions that make them think and feel. To spark their ideas, you may show them this GIANT Creative Mission video.
HANDS ON ACTIVITY: Invite your students to draft their own Would You Rather cards by asking questions that make them think and feel using this GIANT Mission Sheet.
They may use AI tools in their creative process in two ways: (1) use AI tools to brainstorm questions or incorporate writing techniques to make them more memorable, and/or (2) use AI tools to generate images to be used as part of designs for their cards.
Here are a number of prompts from the GIANT Prompt Library they may use to brainstorm with AI tools in drafting their Would You Rather questions:
Prompt: Tell me [number of questions] Would You Rather questions that I can ask a [age] that would make them reflect on their emotions. Limit each question to [number] words.
Example: Tell me 3 Would You Rather questions that I can ask an eight year old that would make them reflect on their emotions. Limit each question to 10 words.
Here are three questions suggested by ChatGPT using the prompt above:
Would you rather talk about feelings or keep them inside?
Would you rather feel happy anytime or understand why you're sad?
Would you rather have a magical friend for emotions or a toy for comfort when sad?
Prompt: Tell me [number of questions] Would You Rather questions that I can ask a [age] that will make them reflect on [topic/issue]. Limit each question to [number] words.
Example: Tell me 3 Would You Rather questions that I can ask an eight year old that will make them reflect on the issue of sustainability. Limit each question to 10 words.
Here are three questions suggested by ChatGPT using the prompt above:
Would you rather recycle everything or never waste anything?
Would you rather save animals or protect forests?
Would you rather use less water or save energy every day?
Prompt: Rephrase this Would You Rather question to include [writing technique]: [question]
Example: Rephrase this Would You Rather question to include alliteration: Would you rather talk about feelings or keep them inside?
Here is how ChatGPT completed the above task, or responded to the prompt:
Would you rather share your feelings or silence them inside?
Remind your students that they are only using AI as a brainstorming tool and that not all questions suggested by AI may be good, but they may spark new ideas.
EXPAND YOUR LESSON: You may expand your lesson by creating your own theme aligned with learning goals that you have in mind. For example, you may ask your students to ask questions inspired by facts they researched about animals (as part of a science curriculum), questions that focus on historical figures, or even make them solve math problems!
Here are resources to expand this unit to ask questions:
That Rhyme:
That Spark a Debate:
That Make You Go YUCK:
That Make You Laugh:
SHARE ABOUT YOUR LEARNING AND CREATIVE PROCESS: Invite your students to play a Would You Rather game with their classmates using the questions they have come up with. As they play their game, encourage them to give and receive feedback to improve their designs.
Your class may publish their own deck of Would You Rather cards featuring their questions and designs using the GIANT Remix platform. They will work with the GIANT team to publish their deck of cards either in a digital format or printed copy.