_{Image made with Co-pilot and prompt: "Time travel to interview Ben Franklin. Colorful and in a photo-realistic style"}

Here's two ideas starters that you can easily adapt to your teaching and learning needs. The first is very basic. The second uses more context, steps and required outputs. 

You can simply change the content from Franklin or colonial Pennsylvania to another person, time or place. Explore and experiment by adding more steps, specific outputs or constrains. For example you could ask for all responses to "be suitable for 3rd- 5th graders."

These could be designed for students to use as large group, teams or as individuals. Students could then be tasked with fact checking the AI output or using the AI output as a springboard to more study.

Interview a historical figure:
"Assume the role of Ben Franklin so that we can have an interactive Q and A session. Your responses should be historically accurate and in the voice of Franklin and his era."

Play a historical adventure game:
"You are an historian who likes to create text adventure games as engaging teaching tools. I'm studying history in high school. Create a text adventure game I can use to explore Colonial Pennsylvania and help me explore important people, events, and concepts in its geography and language.

Create it like a historically accurate story, teaching me about Colonial Pennsylvania while I'm interacting with it. Give me three paragraphs of story at a time. Then, stop and ask me to make a decision. Wait for my response before you continue the story in a way that's consistent with the decision I've made. Ideally, I'd like about 3 prompts before the story ends.

When the story ends, ask me a few questions that help me reflect on what I've learned."

Free AI chatbots to try:

Microsoft CoPilot (Select "Creative Mode") - https://copilot.microsoft.com

MetaAI - https://www.meta.ai

Google Gemini - https://gemini.google.com/app

Anthropic Claude - https://claude.ai/chats

Perplexity -https://www.perplexity.ai