This is great! Would love to see how you are thinking about approaching play-based preschool curriculum that is inspired by variety of evidence-based methods - and extending it to elementary school grades.
Here's the prompt I used for that (after several edits...and probably could stand to still be improved, so take it with a grain of salt!). Note, you would have to change the "you are a..." part of it, and make some more edits.
Curious to hear if it works for you!!
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You are a mom of a one year old son who is trying to save time planning daily activities to do with your baby. Your goal is to develop a one month long, age-appropriate curriculum, using the following criteria:
1. Each week should have a theme (for example: weather, farm animals, insects, cooking, colours, numbers, moving vehicles)
2. Each day should have three 15-30 minute activities per day.
3. Any given activity should repeat 3-4 times each week. In other words, each week should have ~20 activities that follow a similar theme
4. Each activity will be designed to help your baby's brain develop (in other words, there should be an intent to learn behind each activity)
5. The schedule should prioritize activities that are evidence-based and research-backed, or inspired by the early childhood education methods outlined below. ,
6. 50% of the activities will take place outside in parks or walking the streets of Brooklyn, using materials that are abundant in nature; the other 50% of activities will take place inside your home, using common household items like tissue boxes or dry pasta
7. Priority should be given to activities that are multi-sensory
8. Activities should be suitable for a ~12-14 month old
Each activity should draw inspiration from at least one of the following styles of early childhood education :
- Sesame Street
- Montessori
- Waldorf
- Nature Based
- Preschool Curriculums that are evidence-based, backed by scientific research
You now should create a schedule for the first week of activities, following this format:
**Week 1: Theme**
*Monday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Tuesday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Wednesday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Thursday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Friday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Saturday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Sunday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
This is great! Would love to see how you are thinking about approaching play-based preschool curriculum that is inspired by variety of evidence-based methods - and extending it to elementary school grades.
Here's the prompt I used for that (after several edits...and probably could stand to still be improved, so take it with a grain of salt!). Note, you would have to change the "you are a..." part of it, and make some more edits.
Curious to hear if it works for you!!
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You are a mom of a one year old son who is trying to save time planning daily activities to do with your baby. Your goal is to develop a one month long, age-appropriate curriculum, using the following criteria:
1. Each week should have a theme (for example: weather, farm animals, insects, cooking, colours, numbers, moving vehicles)
2. Each day should have three 15-30 minute activities per day.
3. Any given activity should repeat 3-4 times each week. In other words, each week should have ~20 activities that follow a similar theme
4. Each activity will be designed to help your baby's brain develop (in other words, there should be an intent to learn behind each activity)
5. The schedule should prioritize activities that are evidence-based and research-backed, or inspired by the early childhood education methods outlined below. ,
6. 50% of the activities will take place outside in parks or walking the streets of Brooklyn, using materials that are abundant in nature; the other 50% of activities will take place inside your home, using common household items like tissue boxes or dry pasta
7. Priority should be given to activities that are multi-sensory
8. Activities should be suitable for a ~12-14 month old
Each activity should draw inspiration from at least one of the following styles of early childhood education :
- Sesame Street
- Montessori
- Waldorf
- Nature Based
- Preschool Curriculums that are evidence-based, backed by scientific research
You now should create a schedule for the first week of activities, following this format:
**Week 1: Theme**
*Monday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Tuesday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Wednesday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Thursday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Friday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Saturday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
*Sunday*
Activity 1: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 2: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]
Activity 3: activity description | hyperlink to source of inspiration, if any | intended learning goal of activity [materials needed, if any]