Learning Goals
5 minBy the end of this lesson you can:
- Write the strongest prompt you can for a given goal.
- Judge prompts fairly using a rubric.
- Explain why one prompt beats another.
Warm-Up · Which Prompt Wins?
8 minYou've built a whole prompting toolkit. Time to compete with it.
Two prompts both aim to get a fun fact about tigers. "tiger fact" versus "You are a fun zoologist. Give me one surprising tiger fact for a 10-year-old, in one exciting sentence." Which wins, and why?
Reveal
The second — it has a role, a clear task, an audience and a format. That's exactly what we'll score for in today's battle.
The Battle Rules
12 minThis is a challenge lesson — quick rules, then we play. Every prompt is scored out of 6 using this rubric.
| Points | What we check |
|---|---|
| 1 | Has a clear Role |
| 1 | Has a clear Task |
| 1 | Has useful Details (audience / topic / amount) |
| 1 | States a Format or tone |
| 1 | Is safe and kind (no personal data) |
| 1 | Actually got a useful answer |
Same goal for everyone, same rubric. A prompt wins on quality, not luck.
Worked Round · Judged Aloud
13 minGoal: get a 4-line poem about the Petronas Towers for a 9-year-old. Two entries:
poem about towers
You are a children's poet. Write a cheerful 4-line rhyming poem about the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, for a 9-year-old.
Let's score them:
- Entry 1: no role, weak task, no details/format. Score: about 1/6.
- Entry 2: role ✓, task ✓, details ✓, format/tone ✓, safe ✓, useful ✓. Score: 6/6.
Entry 2 wins — and you can say exactly why, point by point.
Battle Rounds
20 minPlay three rounds. For each goal, write your best prompt, test it on the class chatbot, then swap and score a partner's prompt with the rubric.
- Round 1: get 5 fun facts about the rainforest for a 7-year-old.
- Round 2: get a step-by-step plan for a class bake sale.
- Round 3: get a short, funny safety reminder for the science lab.
After each round, the highest-scoring prompt is read out — and its author explains their winning ingredients.
All prompts must be school-friendly with no personal details. A prompt that breaks the safety rule scores zero, however clever.
Mini-Challenge · The Championship
12 minOne final, trickier goal: get the AI to explain how a rainbow forms AND give a quick question to test yourself — in one prompt.
It works if your single prompt scores 6/6 and gets both the explanation and the question in one go.
Show a championship-winning prompt
You are a fun science teacher. Explain how a rainbow forms to a 10-year-old in 3 short sentences, then ask me one easy question to check I understood.
Recap
5 minA winning prompt has a role, a clear task, useful details, a format or tone, stays safe, and gets a useful answer. You can now write strong prompts and judge them — real prompt-engineering skill. That completes the prompt-craft unit!
Vocabulary Card
- rubric
- A scoring guide that lists what makes an answer good.
- iterate
- Improve your prompt and try again to score higher.
- prompt engineering
- The skill of writing prompts that get great results.
Homework · Your Best Prompt
≤ 20 minGoal: get a healthy after-school snack idea using foods from a Malaysian kitchen. Write your best single prompt for it, then score your own prompt out of 6 and explain why it would win.
Sample · Winning Prompt
You are a friendly nutritionist. Suggest 3 healthy after-school snacks a 10-year-old can make from common Malaysian kitchen foods, as short bullet points with one reason each.
Score 6/6: role ✓, task ✓, details (audience, 3, local foods) ✓, format (bullets) ✓, safe ✓, useful ✓.
Yours will be different — aim for all six rubric points.