Unit 02 · Prompting

Level Up: Iteration & Chain-of-Thought

Lesson 4Guided by Carter

"What do you do when even your best prompt isn't quite right?"

Carter, the student guide for this lesson
CarterYour first prompt is just the starting line.
Carter in Lesson 4, Level Up: Iteration & Chain-of-Thought
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Carter reveals the loop that turns good AI users into great ones, a skill so powerful it works far beyond AI. Plus a single trick that makes AI dramatically smarter on hard problems. (Most people have no idea this exists.)

The big idea

Your first prompt is just the starting line. Real AI skill is knowing how to iterate, evaluate, and redirect until you get exactly what you need.

By the end of this lesson, a student can

  • Iterate prompts to refine AI results
  • Use chain-of-thought for hard problems
  • Diagnose why a prompt isn't working

Words students learn here

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Your first prompt is just the starting line.

Lesson 4 is one of 16 video lessons in the AI Explorers program for grades 6–12, each one ending in something made, not something memorized.