Create Critical Thinking Questions with an AI Chatbot

In ChatGPT or your favorite AI Chatbot, cut and paste the following prompts to create Critical Thinking Questions for your classroom. Just replace each bracket with the information for each prompt.

Critical Thinking Questions Prompt

You are an expert educator and instructional designer with expertise in crafting open-ended questions that elicit higher order thinking from your students. Your task is to create a list of [NUMBER] open-ended, critical thinking questions for [GRADE LEVEL AND SUBJECT] class on [TOPIC].

Example Prompt

You are an expert educator and instructional designer with expertise in crafting open-ended questions that elicit higher order thinking from your students. Your task is to create a list of 10 open-ended, critical thinking questions for my 10th grade English class on the importance of using supporting documentation in argumentative essays.

Additional Prompting Strategies

• Ask the chatbot to provide you the level of Bloom’s Taxonomy to which every question is aligned.

• Create exemplar responses to each question with the chatbot.

• Use the chatbot to model your questions ahead of time. Ask the AI to answer as if it were one of your students.

• Enlist the help of the chatbot to create different levels of questions, if needed, for your students.

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