{"id":"res-tch-bee-unit-kid-sources","audience":"teachers","category":"research","technique":"constraints","title":"Pick kid-friendly, trustworthy sources for a 5th grade unit","free":false,"task":"Your 5th graders start a research project on honeybees, and you want a short list of sources for the class page. Your rules: written for grades 3-6, from a museum, government agency, university or the school library database, and not selling anything. You want exactly 3 numbered picks, each with a reason under 12 words, using only the details in your list, plain text, nothing else.","materialLabel":"Your saved source list (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"HONEYBEE UNIT - possible sources for the class page\n\n1. \"Bees Need Us!\" - Pine Valley Natural History Museum kids' page. Reading level: grades 3-5. Free.\n2. \"Honey Bee Colony Collapse: A Review\" - university research journal article. Reading level: college.\n3. \"BuzzBox Bee Kit for Kids - Shop Now!\" - toy company page with fun facts. Reading level: grades 2-4.\n4. \"All About Pollinators\" - US Department of Agriculture kids' section. Reading level: grades 4-6.\n5. \"Inside the Hive\" - KidsInfo database (school library subscription), encyclopedia entry. Reading level: grades 3-6.\n6. \"Bee facts my grandpa told me\" - personal blog, no author credentials. Reading level: grades 3-5.\n7. \"Beekeeping 101\" - Lakeside State University extension guide for adult hobbyists. Reading level: adult.","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not giving your rules","why":"The AI favors the most authoritative-sounding sources, like the university article, even when kids can't read them.","fix":"Spell it out: \"Grades 3-6 reading level, trusted publisher, not selling anything.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Missing the sales page","why":"The toy page has kid-level fun facts, so it can slip in unless you rule out sellers.","fix":"Add: \"No pages selling a product.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Getting lesson ideas","why":"The AI adds activity suggestions for the unit, which buries your 3 picks.","fix":"Say: \"Output only the 3 picks.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Not saying how many","why":"The AI decides the length itself and usually returns more picks than you can use.","fix":"Be exact: \"exactly 3 numbered picks.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Getting markdown back","why":"AI defaults to bold labels and headings, which show up as stray symbols in the class web page.","fix":"Ask for \"plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Gives the reading level","patterns":["grades? ?3","reading level","5th grade","kid"]},{"label":"Names trusted publishers","patterns":["museum","government","universit","library database"]},{"label":"Rules out sellers","patterns":["selling","no (ads|stores|shops)","commercial"]},{"label":"Says exactly how many","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,25}(pick|source)","exactly \\d+"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"For young readers, a good source has to be both trustworthy and readable. Give the AI both rules and rule out anything that's selling something.","rubricLabels":["The 3 picks are exactly items 1 (museum kids' page), 4 (USDA kids' section) and 5 (KidsInfo library database), the only sources meeting every rule","No pick is the college-level journal article, the adult extension guide, the toy company page or the personal blog, and each reason uses only details from the list","Outputs only the 3 numbered picks: no intro, no list of rejected sources, no lesson ideas"]}