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 suggestions, age-calibrated discussion, and transition cues.

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.

Turns raw class material — pasted notes, slide-deck PDFs, or class transcripts — into a 7-section study guide (outline, key terms, concept summaries, Mermaid diagrams, worked examples, 10-20 practice questions, one-page cheat sheet). USE THIS SKILL when a student says "turn my notes into a study guide," "summarize this lecture for the test," "make a study guide from these slides," "I have a transcript from class, help me review," "convert this PDF of my bio lecture into a study guide," "here's a YouTube lecture transcript, extract the key points," "make me practice questions from this chapter," "I need a cheat sheet for tomorrow's exam from these notes," "help me review — I'll paste my lecture notes," OR when a teacher says "make a study guide for my students from this lecture," "build a review handout from my slide deck," "give my class a review sheet from these notes." Accepts pasted text, PDF uploads (Claude-native PDF handling), VTT/SRT/plaintext transcripts, and multi-lecture series. Calibrates depth to grade 6-8, 9-12, college (default), or graduate. Output: markdown study guide; optional PDF.

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.