Creating a glossary

If you have been following my prompt of the week series, you will have seen how I used ChatGPT to create an informative text about the excretory system, generated a series of comprehension questions and created a follow-up section of text about how the structure and function of the excretory system explains why we feel thirst after eating salty foods.

To finish off the whole resource, I wanted to generate a list of key vocabulary words with student-friendly definitions. So this is what I asked for:

Identify 6-8 key vocabulary terms from the text and provide a student-friendly definition for each one. Each definition must give the scientific meaning of the term. Do not use analogies in the definitions.

I ended up using the key words and definitions as a matching exercise for students to do before they got into the comprehension questions, but I think they would also be useful as a glossary that students could refer to throughout the reading activity.

Here’s the finished version of the resource.

Have you tried this prompt? Tell us about it in the comments!