Give teachers a preview of your lesson resource. Introduce the topic and learning goal, then invite them to explore the full material.
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How credits workSee it in action with NASA GPM water-cycle lesson.
A classroom lesson preview built from NASA’s public lesson material, with embroidered water-cycle illustrations.
Prompt
Create a 35-second lesson-preview teaser ad for upper elementary and middle school science: the water cycle. Purpose: a preview for NASA GPM’s Exploring the Water Cycle lesson and a classroom launch video. Use https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/node/199 for the lesson facts. Format: fast-paced, high-energy engagement teaser — hook only, reveal no solutions or final answers. Core objective: introduce investigating how water moves between Earth’s surface and atmosphere, showing a stitched droplet moving between an ocean, a cloud and land as a conceptual illustration on screen. Key vocabulary to flash: evaporation, condensation, precipitation. Visual style: embroidered thread lines and quilted fabric shapes with clear, readable labels, with bold kinetic typography and an upbeat classroom-friendly track. End on a grabber question and a title card for the resource. Use English narration. Keep the illustration scientifically accurate and do not invent lesson contents, student results or endorsements.
Selected style
Embroidery
Every drop of water on Earth is on the move! Up from the ocean… into the clouds… down onto the land… and around again. Along the way, it changes. Evaporation. Condensation. Precipitation. Your mission: investigate how water moves between Earth's surface and the atmosphere. So… what keeps it moving? Find out in Exploring the Water Cycle.
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An education ad video for educators is a short, hook-only teaser — usually about 35 seconds — that previews a single lesson to sell a Teachers-Pay-Teachers product or launch it with your class. You give ngram the grade and topic, the one objective the lesson teaches, the key vocabulary, and the look you want, and it writes a fast-paced script, animates a math-whiteboard style scene with bold kinetic typography, and lands on a grabber question — all without revealing the answers. You fill in the blanks; ngram builds the teaser.
Five beats, about 35 seconds — the shape almost every lesson-preview brief converges on.
Open on a giant, colorful number or a single provocative image bouncing on screen — no title, no logo yet. This is the scroll-stopper that makes a student look up and a scrolling buyer pause.
State what the lesson is about in one line of kinetic typography. The grade and topic land as bold text over the whiteboard so buyers instantly know it matches their standards.
Animate the one visual moment that makes the concept intriguing — a grid filling in, an area model slicing, place-value disks unbundling — but stop right before the answer. Curiosity, not instruction.
Punch the key terms on screen in quick succession so students preview the language they'll use and buyers see the lesson's rigor. Fast cuts, bold type, on-beat with the music.
Close on a grabber question that kickstarts the lesson ("Can you find the pattern?") and a clean title card with your product name — the cue to open the resource in class or buy it on TpT.
The pacing and language shift with the age group. Set the grade and ngram tunes the vocabulary, the on-screen text density, and the tone.
Math whiteboards are the default, but the same hook-only structure works across the curriculum — swap the visual moment for your subject.
Keep it to 35 seconds for a feed teaser, or extend to 45 for a story-format grabber with a longer cliffhanger setup.
Captions-only for muted autoplay on TpT and social, or add an upbeat AI voiceover for a YouTube or classroom launch cut.
Match where the preview runs — vertical for Reels and Stories, square for the TpT product thumbnail, wide for a smartboard.
A high-energy, story-style open with a longer cliffhanger — great for kickstarting a lesson live in class rather than a quick feed ad.
Extend to 45 seconds and open on a short story or scenario before the grabber question lands. Add vibrant colors and fast-moving animated graphics, and end on a cliffhanger the lesson will answer.
For the product preview that autoplays muted in the TpT feed — large high-contrast captions carry the whole message.
Remove voiceover. Use large, high-contrast on-screen captions synced to each beat, and set the aspect ratio to 1:1 for the product thumbnail.
Preview a whole unit or bundle instead of one lesson — flash three topic cards fast before the closing title card.
Preview a bundle: after the grabber, flash three lesson-topic cards in quick succession (one per resource in the bundle), then close on the bundle name and a single grabber question.
Add seasonal urgency for a store sale or a new-unit drop at the start of a term.
Add a bold on-screen banner ("New this week" or "Back-to-school sale") and close on an urgency line plus the product name instead of only a grabber question.
"Use this template" drops you into the editor with the prompt prefilled.
Swap the brackets for your grade and topic, objective, visual moment, vocabulary, and style.
Review the proposed plan and its script, then approve it to create your video. Preview the result and ask ngram to adjust the pacing, visuals or narration.
Prompts educators actually used to preview lessons and teach with video — and the patterns behind them.
The jobs teachers and course sellers hire short video for.
The people who use this recipe to promote lessons and resources.
The ngram capabilities a lesson-preview teaser leans on.
Wire ngram into the tools you already use to promote your store.
whenThe finished lesson-preview teaser is ready for a channel upload
thenWrite the YouTube post for the lesson-preview teaser, then publish it.
whenThe finished lesson-preview teaser is ready for an X update
thenChoose one X publish time for the lesson-preview teaser.
whenyou're on your TpT product page
thenstart a preview teaser from the browser in one click
whenyou publish a new resource
thenauto-trigger a teaser render and notify yourself
whena store webhook fires
thengenerate the teaser in a self-hosted flow
Quick utilities for the pieces of an education teaser.
Drop in the lesson materials you've already made.
Copy the prompt, fill the five blanks for your topic, objective, and vocabulary, and generate a teaser that sells the resource without spoiling the answer.
Video generation uses credits. Review your estimate in ngram. MP4 downloads require Basic or higher.
How credits workFollow a workflow from source material to a video you can review, share and make again.
Each new lesson resource or classroom introduction
Give Claude the learning goal, key vocabulary and a question to leave open. Review ngram’s scene plan, then create a short preview that invites viewers into the lesson.
A lesson objective, vocabulary, preview example and resource titleA short educational teaser with an open question and resource title
Ways to run: Claude
Each course module or lesson revision
Give Claude one module’s objective, worked example and practice task. Review ngram’s teaching sequence, then create a lesson learners can follow and apply.
One module outline, supporting material and a worked exampleA complete lesson with an actionable practice task
Ways to run: Claude
Each new lesson
Give Claude your teaching notes, learner level and worked example. Create a narrated lesson with ngram, review the visual explanation and reuse the request for the next concept.
Teacher-reviewed notes and a worked exampleA narrated concept lesson
Ways to run: Claude