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🎁 Reader Appreciation Week: Earth Day Escape Room Bundle 

Celebrate Earth Day all month with this Escape Room bundle from VirtualEscapeRooms.org! Perfect for classroom engagement or a fun family activity.

This packet offers a variety of activities that can be used flexibly in the classroom, catering to different moments like the start of class, for students who finish their work early, or as a general reward or fun activity for everyone.

🌎 Earth Day Escape Room

Get ready for a top-secret mission where you'll embark on three exciting adventures, each holding a hidden message waiting to be uncovered.

🕵🏽‍♂️ Secret Agent Codebreaker - Earth Day Jokes & Riddles

The secret messages included in this packet are fun and engaging for students. They can be used in various ways, such as a bell ringer to begin class, for early finishers, as a reward activity, or as a fun time filler for the whole class.

🧩 Earth Day Activity Pack

This Earth Day activity packet is full of fun coloring pages, comprehension text and questions, and puzzles like mazes, word searches, crosswords, and sudoku.

🔥 How to get it:

• 🧺 Open your basket by clicking on the yellow gift box here.

• 🌏 Click on the Earth Day Activity Bundle

• 🖱️ Click “GET THE BUNDLE”

• 🥳 Use code DITCHBOOK at checkout to get it for FREE.

💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

🤖 10 powerful ways to use custom chatbots in the classroom

Soon after ChatGPT was released in 2022, I kept saying, “One of these days, we’ll have chatbots like this — but for students.”

That day is here.

I’ve used SchoolAI (SchoolAI.com) in my own classroom to make Spanish tutor chatbots for my own students. They’re called Spaces.

It was easy. All I did was type what I wanted the chatbot to practice with my students. I included content we were studying, the tone I wanted the bot to take, and what kinds of questions I wanted it to ask.

Then I shared a link with my students.

I loved being able to watch the teacher dashboard in SchoolAI while my students were working. It would provide insights on how the student conversations were going — and I could go back and watch the transcript any time.

This works with any grade level — elementary school, middle school, high school — because the chatbot customizes what it delivers based on grade level.

🤔 Sound like something you want to do?

Today’s post — 10 powerful ways to use custom chatbots in the classroom — will walk you through everything. It’ll show you …

• how to find pre-made chatbots you can give your students — no prep necessary.

• how to customize those pre-made chatbots to fine tune them to what you need

• how to make your own chatbots specific to your needs (that’s what I did)

The SchoolAI Spaces chatbots include

💰 Is SchoolAI free? SchoolAI has a great free plan that gives you 50 student sessions per day.

• For me, that means every student in two or three class periods can have a chatbot session every day. On the free plan, I can just rotate through my classes day by day using my 50 sessions per day.

• If you have the same students all day, it means each of them can have a chatbot session every day.

• The free plan also includes teacher tools (lesson plan generator, quiz generator, worksheet generator, etc.) and Coteacher.

You can upgrade to Pro account for $14.99/mo with 500 student sessions per day. That means you can give every student you have multiple chatbot sessions each day. A Pro account also includes Pro teacher tools, Coteacher, and Spaces.

Read more: 10 powerful ways to use custom chatbots in the classroom

👋 How we can help

There are even more ways I can support you in the important work you do in education:

1. Read one of my six books about meaningful teaching with tech.

2. Take one of our online courses about practical and popular topics in education.

3. Bring me to your school, district or event to speak. I love working with educators!