AI prompts for homeschooling · San Jose
Prompts that earned their place at our table.
I homeschool four kids and I use AI every week — but most prompts people share produce confident nonsense. These are the ones that survived contact with a real school day. Copy any of them. Then tell me whether it worked for you.
- Prompts in the library
- 8 · free to copy
- Questions open for votes
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- What it costs
- Nothing, ever
Prompts, and how I actually use them
Each one is written to be pasted straight in. Square brackets are the parts you replace. Where a prompt has an instruction that looks fussy, it's usually there because leaving it out produced something useless.
No prompts match that. Ask for one and it may end up here.
What should I work on next?
Ask for a prompt you wish existed, or a homeschooling problem you'd like AI to help with. Everything posted here is public, and anyone can vote. I work top-down. The ones with the most votes get built into prompts and added to the library.
Nothing on the board yet. Be the first.
Julie Handel
I trained in accounting and I've homeschooled four children in San Jose for the last decade. I started keeping these prompts because I kept re-typing the same instructions and kept getting the same failure — plausible, confident output that fell apart the moment a real seven-year-old sat down in front of it.
So the ones here are the ones that held up. Most of them are long because the constraints are doing the work. The instruction telling the model not to recommend books it isn't sure exist is not decoration; it is the difference between a usable list and an afternoon at the library looking for something that was never written.
Nothing here is a course, and I'm not selling anything. If a prompt fails for you, say so on it — that's more useful to the next parent than another success story.