A 35-second lesson-preview ad, built for educators who sell on Teachers Pay Teachers
This recipe comes straight from the briefs teachers write for ngram. Drop in your topic, your objective, and the vocabulary students need to know, and get a fast-paced teaser that hooks the class and sells the product — without revealing a single answer.
What this template is
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.
The template prompt
Copy it, swap the five brackets for your lesson, and paste it into ngram — or hit "Use this template" to open the editor with it prefilled. The slots mirror the brief teachers already write: topic, objective, visual moment, vocabulary, and style.
Create a 35-second lesson-preview teaser ad for [grade-and-topic]. Purpose: a commercial preview for my Teachers Pay Teachers product and a classroom launch video. Format: fast-paced, high-energy engagement teaser — hook only, reveal no solutions or final answers. Core objective: introduce [core-objective], showing [key-visual-moment] on screen. Key vocabulary to flash: [key-vocabulary]. Visual style: [visual-style], with bold kinetic typography and an upbeat classroom-friendly track. End on a grabber question and a title card for the product.
| Slot | What to put | Example |
|---|---|---|
| [grade-and-topic] | Grade and topic | Grade 5, Module 6 — Patterns in the Coordinate Plane |
| [core-objective] | The one thing the lesson teaches | identifying and comparing number patterns and generating ordered pairs from an input-output rule |
| [key-visual-moment] | The concept to show on screen (no answer) | plotting horizontal and vertical lines that share coordinates on a grid |
| [key-vocabulary] | 3-4 terms to flash | number patterns, coordinate plane, ordered pairs, input-output rule |
| [visual-style] | Look and feel | high-contrast digital math whiteboard |
What the template builds
Five beats, about 35 seconds — the shape almost every lesson-preview brief converges on.
- 1
The grabber
5sOpen 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.
- 2
Name the topic
6sState 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.
- 3
Tease the concept
15sAnimate 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.
- 4
Flash the vocabulary
6sPunch 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.
- 5
Cliffhanger and title card
3sClose 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.
Make it yours
Grade band
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.
Subject
Math whiteboards are the default, but the same hook-only structure works across the curriculum — swap the visual moment for your subject.
Duration
Keep it to 35 seconds for a feed teaser, or extend to 45 for a story-format grabber with a longer cliffhanger setup.
Narration
Captions-only for muted autoplay on TpT and social, or add an upbeat AI voiceover for a YouTube or classroom launch cut.
Aspect ratio
Match where the preview runs — vertical for Reels and Stories, square for the TpT product thumbnail, wide for a smartboard.
Common variations
Story-format grabber (45s)
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.
Silent captioned cut for the TpT thumbnail
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.
Bundle teaser
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.
Back-to-school launch cut
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.
How it works
Open the template
"Use this template" drops you into the editor with the prompt prefilled.
instant
Fill the five blanks
Swap the brackets for your grade and topic, objective, visual moment, vocabulary, and style.
1-2 min
Generate and adjust
ngram builds the five scenes with kinetic typography and music. Tweak the pacing, swap the grabber question, or change the aspect ratio in the editor.
3-5 min
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Real education ads from this recipe
Prompts educators actually used to preview lessons and teach with video — and the patterns behind them.
Use cases this fits
The jobs teachers and course sellers hire short video for.
Who makes these
The people who use this recipe to promote lessons and resources.
Features behind this template
The ngram capabilities a lesson-preview teaser leans on.
Get the teaser in front of buyers
Wire ngram into the tools you already use to promote your store.
whena lesson teaser finishes rendering
thenpublish it to your channel as a preview or class launch video
whenyou approve a new teaser
thenpost it captioned to your teacher-community feed
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 new bundle goes live
thenkick off a fresh teaser in a scenario
whena store webhook fires
thengenerate the teaser in a self-hosted flow
Tools for lesson-preview video
Quick utilities for the pieces of an education teaser.
Turn what you already have into a teaser
Drop in the lesson materials you've already made.
Frequently asked
Preview your next lesson in 35 seconds flat.
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.