Prompt Engineering Guide for High School Students - Revolutionaries of the Eighteenth Century

As an educator in this fast-paced digital era, I created this guidebook to equip fellow teachers with the tools to train students in the art of crafting thoughtful prompts for AI chatbots. Having witnessed firsthand the meteoric rise of natural language processing and generative AI, I felt an urgency to ensure students can maximize these technologies through prompt engineering.

Within these pages, you'll find lesson plans, student handouts, and supplementary materials to seamlessly integrate prompt engineering into your curriculum. I lead you step-by-step through techniques like increasing prompt complexity, incorporating diverse elements, and emphasizing clarity and precision. You'll also find tailored prompts and sample AI outputs for historical figures like Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, Immanual Kant, Patrick Henry, Sacagawea, and Mozart so students can apply their skills while reinforcing content knowledge.

My goal is to provide a roadmap for you to mold digitally literate students who capitalize on the best that AI has to offer us. This begins with understanding chatbot capabilities and limitations, enforcing ethical digital citizenship, and equipping learners to frame prompts that yield accurate, in-depth responses. The prompts we craft today will impact how future AI systems learn and evolve as tools.

As an educator with twenty years of classroom experience, I know how valuable your time and energy is. That's why I've designed these ready-to-implement lessons to save you time while upskilling your students. My hope is that this guide will empower you to prepare children not just for standardized tests but for the real-world critical thinking needed in AI-driven workplaces. Let's teach them to be articulate "prompt engineers" who thrive with technology as a tool rather than allowing it to use them.