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Stop Spending Hours
on Lessons You Could
Build in Minutes.

Google's NotebookLM is the AI tool educators have been waiting for. These two cheat sheets give you exactly what to do โ€” and what to say โ€” to make it work in your classroom this week.

  • Generate quizzes, rubrics & study guides in one click
  • Differentiate reading levels without rewriting anything
  • Give students an AI-powered study coach for any unit
  • Works with your existing materials โ€” no subscription needed
For Teachers

Teacher Cheat Sheet

Studio tools, copy-paste prompts & 5 ready-to-use classroom strategies

For Students

Student Guide

Power prompts, active learning techniques & an AI ethics checklist

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Two Guides. One Tool. Endless Classroom Possibilities.

NotebookLM is powerful โ€” but only if you know the right moves. These cheat sheets cut through the learning curve and give you the exact features, prompts, and strategies that actually save time in a real classroom.

Teacher Sheet

The Studio Toolkit

A quick-reference guide to every Studio feature โ€” Audio Overviews, Study Guides, Flashcards, Quizzes, and more โ€” with plain-English explanations of what each is best for.

Teacher Sheet

Effective Teacher Prompts

Copy-and-paste prompts for real lesson planning: generate questions by standard, build rubrics from your syllabus, surface prerequisite knowledge, and more.

Teacher Sheet

Top Secret Insider Tips & Hacks

The moves most teachers never find: customize Studio output length and format, request slides and infographics in any style, revise slides on demand, and fix text errors using Canva's Text Grab.

Student Guide

Power Prompts for Studying

A student-facing table of goal-driven prompts โ€” from Big Picture overviews to Socratic tutoring mode โ€” that help students take real ownership of their learning.

Student Guide

The "Night Before" Routine

A step-by-step study ritual students can follow the night before any test, using their own notes as the source material. No fluff โ€” just smarter preparation.

Student Guide

The AI Ethics Checklist

An accountability framework that teaches students to verify citations, write in their own voice, and cite AI use appropriately โ€” a ready-made AI literacy discussion starter.

Your Planning Time is Valuable. Here's Where You Win It Back.

You don't need to redesign your curriculum. Here are four places NotebookLM saves teachers meaningful time โ€” starting this week.

01

Differentiated Readings โ€” In Seconds

Upload any article or chapter and ask NotebookLM to rewrite it for a lower reading level while preserving the core concepts. No more creating two separate documents by hand.

"Rewrite this for a 5th-grade reading level while keeping the core scientific concepts."

02

Instant Lesson Planning Hub

Upload your state standards, a YouTube video, and a textbook chapter together. Ask for a 3-day lesson plan with a kinesthetic activity โ€” grounded in the materials you already use.

"Based on these, create a 3-day lesson plan with a kinesthetic activity."

03

Interactive Primary Sources

Upload the Declaration of Independence, a Supreme Court decision, or any historical document. Have students "interview" the text โ€” a compelling alternative to passive reading activities.

"What would the author of this document say about [current issue]?"

04

The "Bus Ride" Lesson Prep

Generate an Audio Overview of your next chapter. Students listen to the AI podcast on the way to school and arrive primed to discuss โ€” without you having to build a single slide.

Students show up ready. Class time goes deeper. Every time.

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