school-skills

Plan age-calibrated craft projects for kids ages 2-10 — supply list, step-by-step instructions, safety notes, mess level, prep time, variations, cleanup, and learning connections. Use whenever a teacher or parent asks for a classroom or home craft. Triggers on "craft for pre-k about fall leaves", "easter craft ideas for 2nd grade", "simple paper craft with my 5 year old", "thanksgiving class craft no scissors", "rainy day low-mess craft for 4 year old", "valentine's day craft for 20 second graders", "craft using only construction paper and glue", "mother's day kindergarten craft", "ocean animals 1st grade craft", "15-minute preschool craft", "earth day recycled-materials craft", "what can I make with my 3 year old", and similar K-5 / PreK project requests. Redirects copyrighted-character requests (Elsa, Bluey, Mickey, Pokémon) to the underlying theme. Does not fetch stock photos — uses italicized visual-description cues per step instead.

Plan circle time, morning meeting, or opening routine for PreK-2 classrooms. Use this whenever a teacher asks for a preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade morning meeting, greeting, song, calendar/weather, theme discussion, movement activity, story time, SEL check-in, or closing ritual. Triggers on "plan circle time for monday", "morning meeting for kindergarten about feelings", "preschool circle time songs", "what should we do for circle time about fall", "calendar and weather for 1st grade morning meeting", "PreK morning meeting plan for the letter B", "give me a 15 minute circle time about apples", "2nd grade morning meeting SEL check-in", "circle time plan rainy day indoor", "kindergarten greeting song and story", "morning meeting routine for first week of school", "transition songs for preschool circle time", "PreK circle time about community helpers", and similar PreK-2 morning-meeting requests. Produces a full, ready-to-run plan with original lyrics set to public-domain tunes, picture-book su

Turn a topic, chapter, or pasted source into a visual graph — mind maps, concept maps, prerequisite trees, cause-effect networks, taxonomies, process flows, or timelines. Triggers on student phrasings like "mind map of the french revolution", "concept map for photosynthesis", "show me how these ideas relate", "visualize this chapter", "map out the relationships in this reading", "map my notes", and on teacher phrasings like "diagram of this chapter for my 7th graders", "prerequisite tree for calculus", "cause and effect map of WWI", "draw a taxonomy of vertebrates", "flowchart the scientific method", "timeline of the civil rights movement", "markmap of these notes". Emits Mermaid (default), Graphviz DOT, or Markmap syntax plus an optional rendered PNG/SVG via the bundled renderer — falls back to syntax + install hints when renderers are missing. Calibrates node count and vocabulary to grade level.

One-shot standards-aligned lesson plans — Common Core, NGSS, TEKS, IB, Cambridge, state frameworks. Takes a topic, grade, and duration; returns a fully formatted plan with objectives, standards, materials, Gradual Release pedagogy (I do / we do / you do), 13 sections, and ELL/SPED/Gifted differentiation. Covers K-12, college, and homeschool. USE THIS SKILL when the user says "write a lesson plan," "I need a lesson on X for Y grade," "plan a lesson," "45-minute lesson on," "Common Core lesson," "NGSS lesson," "emergency sub plan," "homeschool lesson," "multi-day unit," "IB MYP lesson," "first-year-teacher SOS," "TEKS-aligned lesson," or any phrase combining a topic + a grade + a duration. Output: markdown with YAML footer for sibling-skill handoff; optional PDF.

Turn an assignment prompt into a ready-to-use grading rubric (a.k.a. scoring guide / grading guide) with zero blank cells. USE THIS SKILL when a teacher, professor, TA, or parent says "I need a rubric for…", "make me a scoring guide", "how should I grade this?", "build an analytic rubric", "holistic rubric for a narrative", "4-point mastery rubric", "rubric aligned to Bloom's / DOK / SOLO / CCSS / NGSS", "turn this assignment into a rubric", "student-facing rubric I can hand out", "grading criteria for [project]", "help me grade this essay", "what should I look for when grading", or "rubric for my kid's homeschool project". Handles K-2 through graduate, analytic or holistic, points or qualitative. Outputs markdown table + CSV with fully populated descriptors in every cell.

Tutors a student through a problem via guiding questions without ever handing over the answer. Triggers on phrases like "help me understand", "I'm stuck on my homework", "tutor me through this", "walk me through how to solve", "explain step by step", "I don't get why", "I need to understand X for my exam", or teacher phrasings like "tutor my 7th grader on fractions, don't just give the answer", "Socratic-style tutor this student". Refuses to complete assignments. Offers hint-ladder mode when the student hits a wall and recap-learnings mode at session end. Calibrates to grade level K-2 through grad school.