GIANT Comic Book: The Adventures of 27 Science Detectives & Prompt Engineers
For four weeks, The GIANT Room joined students and teachers to learn about AI literacy, storytelling, and science. As part of the school’s Plant and Animal Relationships unit, we investigated a real-world mystery: why did no new chalta trees grow in the Bengal Tiger Reserve from 1995 to 2015? What do chalta trees need to grow? And what is the connection between chalta fruit, elephants, and poop?
During the unit, students dove deep into how plants depend on animals in their habitats, assuming the role of plant scientists reporting to the lead scientist at the Bengal Tiger Reserve. Motivated to figure out the cause of this real-world mystery, students investigated the problem, and then pursued a chain of reasoning that took them from considering how plants get what they need to grow to understanding how seeds depend on animals for dispersal. Students use their newfound understanding to try to get to the bottom of the mystery!
While working to solve it with The GIANT Room team, students created their own collectible animal trading cards using generative AI, brainstormed with text-based AI to come up with theories on how their animal was involved in the mystery, drew comics of these theories, and even worked together to come up with what their area of the forest looked like using block-based prompt engineering.
We want to thank the school and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center for their partnership, and to the Robin Hood Foundation for funding the program and making this publication possible.
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