Prompt Sandwich Template Worksheets

About This Worksheet Collection

This collection teaches students how to design strong, structured prompts using the "prompt sandwich" method-a layered approach that improves clarity, context, and usefulness when communicating with AI tools. Each worksheet guides learners through refining vague instructions, adding role and task details, and shaping prompts for different purposes such as storytelling, journalism, planning, or career exploration. By practicing with templates, comparisons, and creative tasks, students gain hands-on experience with the core elements of effective prompting.

As students progress, they build skills in organization, tone control, contextual thinking, and purposeful writing. They learn how each layer of a prompt influences the quality of the AI's output and how thoughtful revision leads to clearer communication. Whether the focus is world-building, scenario simulation, or functional writing, the worksheets reinforce critical thinking and digital literacy while strengthening students' confidence in working with AI.

Detailed Descriptions Of These Worksheets

Prompt Refinement Challenge
Students take a vague prompt and refine it through five structured layers, adding role, task, context, constraints, and output format. Each step in the chart helps them create a more specific and effective prompt. The activity reinforces clarity, purpose, and organized revision. By the end, learners produce a polished prompt that models strong communication.

Compare Prompt Strength
Learners review two AI responses-one from a weak prompt and one from a strong prompt-to analyze what made the difference. They answer guided questions about clarity, detail, and audience awareness. This task strengthens comparison skills and helps students understand how prompt design affects AI output.

World-Building Prompts
Students design prompts that instruct an AI to create imaginative fictional worlds. They define the role, describe the world-building task, and add rich context to shape the tone and setting. The activity builds creative writing skills and teaches thoughtful instruction-giving for descriptive tasks.

Scenario Simulation Prompts
This worksheet guides learners in creating prompts that allow an AI to run a scenario or simulate a decision-making situation. Students outline the role, key event, and important context, encouraging cause-and-effect reasoning. It supports structured writing and helps students design prompts for hypothetical or alternate-outcome explorations.

AI Career Coach
Students build a detailed prompt that instructs an AI to act as a career coach. They provide background information about their interests, education, and skills, along with tone and task requirements. The activity strengthens functional writing and teaches learners how to communicate effectively in professional contexts.

Entrepreneur Prompt Builder
Learners write prompts that cast the AI as a startup founder or business strategist. They outline the role and task, add relevant business context, and optionally include goals such as profitability or innovation. This worksheet builds purposeful writing skills and encourages practical, entrepreneurial thinking.

Prompt Sandwich Guide
Students learn a three-layer prompt structure-context/setup, task/action, and format/output-presented through a sandwich metaphor. They examine how each layer contributes to clarity and analyze example prompts. The activity reinforces organized communication and foundational prompt-design principles.

Build-A-Story Workshop
Learners coach an AI to write a story by adding one prompt layer at a time, including role, task, context, constraints, and output format. They write their own instructions as they progress, producing a complete story prompt. The worksheet supports narrative planning and strengthens creative writing through structured guidance.

Write Like a Journalist
Students craft a prompt that directs an AI to write in an objective, factual news style. They choose the role, define the reporting task, and set constraints emphasizing clarity and accuracy. This activity teaches journalistic writing principles and hones precision in instruction-giving.

Plan-Building Prompt
Learners develop a prompt that guides an AI to act as a project planner. They define the role, outline the planning task, and add specific event or group details. Follow-up questions help students refine their instructions and imagine realistic outcomes.

Historical Reenactor Prompt
Students build a prompt that instructs an AI to write or speak from a specific historical perspective. They define the role, choose the time period, and include contextual details to promote accuracy and engagement. The worksheet builds historical thinking and teaches students how to provide clear, context-rich instructions.