Planning prompts
Planning prompts make the model produce a plan first, which can be reviewed and corrected before any expensive work happens.
AI for Kids · Class 10 · Module 2 of 9
Advanced Prompt Workflows
Reliable beats clever. Every time, in anything that matters.
8 sessionsSessions 9–16
4 weeksTypical pace
AppliedLevel
Class 10Artificial Intelligence
The big idea
Students construct multi-step workflows with planning prompts, critic prompts that check work against rubrics, and templates that produce consistent quality across different inputs.
Why it matters
Consistency is what makes an AI workflow usable by someone other than its author.
Unpacked
What you will actually learn
Three core ideas, each taught with worked examples and then practised until it feels obvious.
Rubrics and critics
Rubrics and critics have one pass generate and another evaluate against fixed criteria, catching weak output before you see it.
Repeatable templates
Repeatable templates capture the working version so results do not depend on how you happened to phrase it today.
Did you know?
Generator-and-critic setups mirror how editorial teams have always worked. Separating creation from evaluation improves both.
Common mix-up
“More steps means better output.” Each step adds cost and failure risk. Add a step only when it demonstrably improves the result.
Session by session
Your 8-session journey
Sessions 9–16 of the 72-session year, at two one-hour sessions per week.
- 1
Warm-up and big picture
Where this module fits, what you will build, and a hands-on starter that gets everyone curious about planning prompts.
- 2
Planning prompts
Guided teaching on planning prompts, worked through together with the teacher.
- 3
Planning prompts — practice lab
Independent practice, small challenges and one deliberate mistake to diagnose.
- 4
Rubrics and critics
Guided teaching on rubrics and critics, building directly on the previous two sessions.
- 5
Rubrics and critics — practice lab
Applied tasks that combine planning prompts and rubrics and critics in one piece of work.
- 6
Repeatable templates
Repeatable templates introduced and practised, completing the toolkit needed for the project.
- 7
Project build
Guided build session for the module project: Reliable multi-step prompt workflow.
- 8
Test, present and reflect
Finish, test against the checklist, present the work and explain the decisions behind it.
Project lab
Reliable multi-step prompt workflow
Every module ends with something the student built themselves and can demonstrate. This is the piece that goes into their portfolio and gets explained out loud at the end of session 16.
Try this at home
Add a critic stage to your best workflow and measure whether output scores actually improve. Remove it if they do not.
It is finished when
- It works from start to finish without breaking
- You can explain every part of it in your own words
- You tested it and improved at least one thing afterwards
- Someone else used or understood it without your help
By the end of this module
Students finishing Module 2 can:
- Explain and use planning prompts without prompting
- Explain and use rubrics and critics without prompting
- Explain and use repeatable templates without prompting
- Build and finish reliable multi-step prompt workflow
- Test your own work and correct what you find
- Talk an adult through what you made and why
Word bank
The vocabulary introduced here, in plain language:
- critic prompt
- A prompt that evaluates other output.
- template
- A reusable, tested prompt structure.
- reliability
- Consistent quality across many runs.
Module challenge
Think you have got this?
0 XPLevel 1 · Curious Beginner
6 quick questions drawn from this module — vocabulary, the project you build, and a myth-or-fact round. Every wrong answer explains itself, so a mistake still teaches you something.
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