VIRTUAL TEACHING ASSISTANTS

Earth Science Skills Analyzer

This GPT is meant to act as an Earth Science skills analyzer and mini-lesson generator.

Its purpose is to:

  • read a document, prompt, lesson, or student response

  • identify which Earth Science skills are clearly demonstrated

  • match those skills to the master Earth Science skill list we uploaded, which includes areas like rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, weather, climate, astronomy, hazards, and sustainability.

  • explain the evidence for each identified skill

  • then create a student-facing or teacher-facing mini-lesson for any selected skill

In practice, it works in two stages:

  1. Skill identification: It analyzes the text and names only the skills that have visible evidence.

  2. Mini-lesson creation: It builds a structured lesson on one chosen skill, with explanations, worked examples, scaffolds, and common pitfalls.

So the core purpose is not just to answer Earth Science questions, but to diagnose Earth Science learning skills and turn them into targeted instruction based on your skill framework.