Educational Worksheets
Add to your AI app. Install it once as a Claude Skill, a ChatGPT GPT, or a Gemini Gem. Claude works best.
Use when you're a teacher making a worksheet and want it to fit your lesson, not a generic template. It asks what the worksheet is for and how the page should flow first, and builds the printable page last.
The problem it solves
Ask a chatbot to “make me a worksheet on X” and you get a template. It picks a structure for you, fills in plausible content, and quietly makes the design decisions you should have made.
This flips that. It’s a design partner, not a template dispenser. It won’t make anything until you’ve answered a few questions — what students should be able to do afterwards, how the page should flow, what good use of the space looks like for this content. Then it offers a couple of layout options per section, with the trade-offs, and only builds once you’ve picked. The page reflects your decisions, not a default.
How it works
Four steps before any page appears:
- Purpose & context — the learning goal, the students, the constraints (in class or homework, one page or several, photocopy-safe or not).
- Content & structure — what students read, what they produce, the order it flows in, and whether each “rule” is really a rule or just a tendency.
- Layout options — two or three approaches per part, each with its trade-off named. You pick.
- Confirm, then build — a recap of the decisions before the page is made.
What you get
A print-ready page: clean icons, photocopy-safe styling (it still reads fine in black and white), and page breaks that fall where they should. Open it in a browser and print.
A few things it’s careful about
- It treats you as the designer. Where there’s a real choice, it shows the options and the cost of each, instead of deciding for you.
- It won’t mislead students. If a “rule” is really just a tendency, it says so and shows both forms, rather than marking a natural answer wrong.
- It earns every part of the page. Enough room to write, sized to the answer — no half-empty space, no cramped boxes.
Get a copy
Download it below and install it in your AI app. Claude gives the best results — it follows the design steps most faithfully — but it also runs as a custom GPT in ChatGPT or a Gem in Gemini. (Microsoft Copilot’s basic tier can’t run it well: it skips the questions and hands back a template. I tested that at HU.)
Teach and get stuck on a worksheet, or want me to run it with you on one? Email me — I’m happy to help.