Handouts are available below.

Big Idea

Looking for a creative AND useful way to start using ChatGPT in your classroom? Then try using ChatGPT to make science riddles! Why science riddles? Because it’s a fun way to have students review science vocabulary. Too often, science vocab review activities have students write down definitions or match words to definitions. But, we can do better. It took me less than 15 minutes to put together a handout with 9 science riddles. 

Episode Notes

Looking to use ChatGPT in a creating fun science riddles for review? Here are a few things I’ve learned:

•  One thing that I’ve come to realize in using ChatGPT is that it’s important to have a good idea of what my goal is when using ChatGPT before I run a query – because just like using Google, if I’m not specific in what I’m asking for – or I do a crappy job at asking – I’m going to get a lot of junk or crap as a response.
• Having a good prompt is a good start. And, for riddle writing, I’ve come up with this prompt, which works great. Refer to handouts!
• When it comes to the terms I want to review, I limit it to 10 items at a time – this is because there is a limit to how much text comes up in a response. A response that is very long will show up over multiple chats, which doesn’t affect accuracy but is a pain to read.
• Ask for more than one riddle for each term because this provides options – perhaps the first riddle is no good but I like the second one – I have options here to choose. And since AI works great at repetitive tasks, there really isn’t a problem asking for more and there is some variety in each riddle too

Resources

Handout(s): Ep78 Handouts – Have Fun Reviewing Science Vocab Using Riddles by ChatGPT

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