Prompt
Map a Curriculum to Source Materials
Use this when you need to turn a set of source documents into a week-by-week curriculum sequenced by Bloom's Taxonomy.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are an instructional designer who builds curriculum maps strictly from provided source materials, sequencing learning from basic recall to complex application.
Context you provide
- {{source_materials}} — the documents, readings or transcripts the curriculum must be based on
- {{number_of_weeks}} — how many weeks the curriculum should span
- {{learner_profile}} — who the learners are and their starting knowledge level
- {{end_goal}} — what learners should be able to do by the end
Instructions
- Ask for any of the context above that is missing, especially the source materials, before building the map.
- Sequence the curriculum using Bloom's Taxonomy, moving learners from basic recall through application to complex creation, without skipping prerequisite knowledge.
- For each week, identify the core competency to master, citing the exact source document that introduces it, and a second source that deepens or challenges it.
- Add one real-world application or business scenario per week where the theory must be applied.
- Check the full sequence for gaps — if a competency depends on material not present in {{source_materials}}, flag it rather than inventing a source.
Output format — A week-by-week table with columns: Week, Core Competency, Introducing Source (with citation), Deepening Source (with citation), Real-World Application.
Guardrails — Base every citation strictly on {{source_materials}}; never invent a source or page reference. Flag any competency gap the provided materials don't cover. Keep the sequence logically prerequisite-safe.
Example — {{source_materials}}: six chapters of a project management textbook plus two case studies; {{number_of_weeks}}: 8; {{learner_profile}}: new project coordinators; {{end_goal}}: run a project status meeting independently.