{"id":"vis-tch-history-scene-no-anachronisms","audience":"teachers","category":"image-video","track":"visual","technique":"grounding","title":"Get a historical classroom scene with no modern objects","free":false,"task":"You teach 4th grade history and want an illustration of a one-room schoolhouse in 1885 for a slide, made with Gemini. Get Claude to write one paste-ready prompt, plain text, under 120 words: a prompt paragraph using only the details from your notes, then a last line starting \"Avoid:\" that lists at least 5 modern objects. It must say 16:9, and the children must be illustrated, not photos of real people.","materialLabel":"The brief (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"Lesson 7 notes - School in 1885 (from our textbook, ch. 4)\n\nThe schoolhouse: one room, wooden walls, a wood-burning iron stove in the middle, a water bucket with a shared dipper by the door.\nStudents: ages 6 to 14 together, about 20 kids. Older students helped younger ones.\nSupplies: slates and slate pencils, a few shared books (McGuffey readers), a hand bell on the teacher's desk.\nLight: tall windows and oil lamps, no electricity.\nSeating: long wooden benches with shared desks; younger kids sat in front.\nClothing: girls in long dresses and aprons, boys in trousers with suspenders, many barefoot in warm months.\n\nFrom my class's questions last year: \"Did they have pencils and paper?\" (Mostly slates.) \"Did they have a clock?\" (A wall clock was common.)\n\nA student joked it would be funny to give one kid a tablet. Our district slide template is widescreen.\n\nWant it to look like a picture-book illustration, warm and inviting.","rules":[{"type":"maxWords","max":120},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Generic old-timey scene","why":"The AI draws a vague 'old school' with modern desks and chalkboards from any era.","fix":"Add the details: \"slates, iron stove, benches, oil lamps.\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"No list of anachronisms","why":"Image tools sneak in electric lights, plastic chairs or paper notebooks.","fix":"Add a last line: \"Avoid: tablets, electric lights, plastic, paper notebooks, whiteboards.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Photo-realistic kids","why":"A realistic photo of 1885 children looks like a real historical photo, which it isn't.","fix":"Add: \"Picture-book illustration, not a photo.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"Wrong shape","why":"Without 16:9, the image won't fill the slide.","fix":"Add: \"16:9.\"","checks":["r0"]},{"title":"History lesson instead of prompt","why":"The AI explains 1885 schools with headings.","fix":"Add: \"Output only the prompt and Avoid line, plain text.\"","checks":["plainText","maxWords"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Sets the shape","patterns":["16\\s*:\\s*9","widescreen"]},{"label":"Uses the notes' details","patterns":["slate","stove","oil lamp"]},{"label":"Asks for an illustration","patterns":["illustrat","not (a )?photo"]},{"label":"Lists modern things to avoid","patterns":["avoid","anachronis","modern"]},{"label":"Stays with the notes","patterns":["only (the )?(details|facts)","from (my|the) notes"]}],"hint":"Image tools mix eras freely. Give the AI the period details, ask for an illustration, and list the modern objects to keep out.","rubricLabels":["States 16:9 and asks for an illustration rather than a photo (a picture-book illustration counts)","Uses details from the notes: at least 4 of slates, iron stove, benches, oil lamps or windows, water bucket, hand bell, mixed-age students","Ends with a line starting 'Avoid:' that lists at least 5 modern objects (such as tablets, electric lights, plastic, paper notebooks, whiteboards)"]}