{"id":"hs-dust-bowl-source-notes","audience":"high-school","category":"research","technique":"grounding","title":"Pull cited research notes from your sources","task":"For a US History project, you're answering: 'Where did Dust Bowl migrants go, and why did they leave?' You have notes from 4 sources, and your teacher said not to use Source D, an anonymous blog. You want at most 3 bullets, each one sentence ending with its source letter in brackets like [A], under 70 words in all, plain text. Use only Sources A to C.","free":false,"materialLabel":"Your source notes (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"US History - Unit 7 project research - Dust Bowl\n\nSOURCE A - State Historical Society online exhibit, \"Leaving the Plains\" (2019)\nAbout 2.5 million people left the Great Plains states during the 1930s. Roughly 200,000 of them moved to California, many following Route 66 west. Others moved to nearby cities in their own states.\n\nSOURCE B - our textbook, ch. 14, p. 412\nYears of drought and over-plowing of the grasslands caused huge dust storms that buried fields and ruined crops. Many farm families lost their land when they could not pay their bank loans.\n\nSOURCE C - Oral history archive, interview with a woman whose family left Oklahoma in 1936\n\"We went west because my uncle wrote that there was fruit-picking work in the valley. The pay was low and we lived in a camp the first year.\"\n\nSOURCE D - blog \"HistoryHacks4U\" (no author, no date)\n\"2.5 MILLION Okies flooded into California!!! Most of them ended up as movie extras in Hollywood.\"\n\nMr. Okafor's note on my research log: \"Don't use Source D. No author, no date, and the numbers are wrong.\"\n\nproject due Dec 5, presentation Dec 8. need 3 more sources for the bibliography","rules":[{"type":"maxBullets","max":3},{"type":"maxWords","max":70},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Asking for a \"summary of the sources\"","why":"The AI summarizes each source in turn, Source D included, instead of answering your question.","fix":"Give it the question: \"Answer: where did migrants go, and why did they leave?\"","checks":["r2","maxBullets"]},{"title":"Trusting the AI to count words","why":"AI is bad at counting. Ask for a total and it often lands 20% over.","fix":"Cap each bullet: \"each bullet one sentence under 18 words.\"","checks":["maxWords"]},{"title":"No citations","why":"AI writes smooth notes without saying where each fact came from, and you can't build a bibliography from that.","fix":"Add: \"End each bullet with its source letter in brackets, like [A].\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Trusting every source equally","why":"The AI treats the blog like the textbook, and its exaggerated number sounds confident.","fix":"Say: \"Never use Source D. Use only Sources A to C.\"","checks":["r1","r2"]},{"title":"Notes that need cleanup","why":"AI adds a heading and bold labels you'd strip out before pasting into your research doc.","fix":"Add: \"Plain text, no bold or headings, no intro.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the research question","patterns":["where.{0,30}(go|went)","why.{0,20}(left|leave)","question"]},{"label":"Asks for citations","patterns":["\\[a\\]","cite","source letter","bracket"]},{"label":"Excludes the blog","patterns":["source d","blog","only (sources )?a.{0,5}c"]},{"label":"Limits the bullets","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,15}bullet","bullet.{0,20}\\b(3|three)\\b"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"The AI can't tell a museum exhibit from a sketchy blog unless you say so. Give it your question, the sources it may use, and how to cite each line.","rubricLabels":["Every bullet ends with the letter of the source it comes from in brackets (like [A] or [B])","Uses nothing from Source D: if it gives how many migrants went to California, it says about 200,000 (Source A), not 2.5 million, and it doesn't mention Hollywood or movie extras","Answers both parts of the question (where migrants went, and why they left) using only facts from Sources A to C, with no outside facts"]}