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Nine fully scripted demonstrations covering every grade band, core subjects and the key scenarios. Each one tells you exactly what to click, what to type, what to say, what to point at, and what to do when it goes wrong. Keep this page open on a second screen or your phone while you deliver.

Three golden rules — read before every session 1. Never wait for a live generation. Anything longer than ~30 seconds is pre-generated the evening before; you show the live start, then reveal the prepared result. 2. Budget the free quota. Roughly 50 chats and ~3 Audio Overviews per day per account (as last verified — never promise numbers to the room). Decide before the session which demos spend them. 3. Every demo ends with a verification moment. If you skip it, the room learns that verification is skippable.

Pick a demo

1 · First Notebook (Class 5 Science) 2 · Source Shootout (any subject) 3 · Prompt Ladder (Class 7 Science) 4 · Three-Level Worksheet (Class 4 Maths) 5 · Picture Vocabulary (LKG/UKG) 6 · Board-Exam Pack (Class 10) 7 · Telugu Three Ways (Class 5) 8 · Audio Overview (Classes 8–9) 9 · Concept to Video (Extension)
#DemoGrade band / subjectModuleTime
1Your First NotebookClass 5 · Science (Water Cycle)2~8 min
2The Source-Quality ShootoutAny subject, any class3~10 min
3The Prompt LadderClass 7 · Science (Kinetic Energy)4~12 min
4Three-Level WorksheetClass 4 · Mathematics (Fractions)5~8 min
5Picture Vocabulary Circle TimeLKG/UKG · Telugu–English5~6 min
6Board-Exam Revision PackClass 10 · Science or Social5~10 min
7Classroom Telugu, Three WaysClass 5 · Science (Evaporation)6~10 min
8Audio Overview for RevisionClasses 8–9 · any chapter5 / Ext~8 min + wait
9Concept to 8-Second ClipsClass 7 · Science (Kinetic Energy)Ext 4~15 min

Demo 1 · Your First Notebook

Class 5 · Science · Water Cycle Module 2 · ~8 min Spends: 2–3 chats
Prep the evening before Download the official SCERT/NCERT Class 5 EVS water-cycle chapter PDF to the trainer laptop. Keep one short supplementary source ready (a one-page article or a second PDF). Sign into the demo Google account and confirm NotebookLM opens. Pre-generate one Studio quiz in this notebook for step 9. Screenshot every step as backup.
  1. Open notebooklm.google.com Point at the profile icon, top-right.
    "Before anything else — check which account you are in. Half of today's 'lost work' problems are just the wrong account."
  2. Create a new notebook and name it immediately Click New notebook → rename it: Class 5 – Science – Water Cycle – [your name].
    "Class, subject, topic, owner. Six months from now, with forty notebooks, you will thank yourself."
  3. Add the chapter PDF Click Add source → upload the SCERT PDF. While it processes, tell the room what a source is: the material NotebookLM is allowed to work from — not the whole internet.
  4. Show the automatic source summary Point at the summary NotebookLM produced. Ask the room: does this match the chapter you know?
  5. Ask the first grounded question
    First question
    What are the five most important ideas in these sources?
    Read the answer aloud slowly. Point at the small citation markers inside the answer.
  6. Open a citation — the moment of the day Click one citation. The source panel opens at the supporting passage.
    "This is the most important habit in today's programme. Do not only read the answer. Open the evidence."
    Compare the generated sentence with the source sentence, word by word, on the projector.
  7. Add the second source Upload the supplementary source. Ask the same question again — notice the answer now draws from both.
  8. Select and deselect sources Untick the supplementary source so only the textbook is selected. Re-ask.
    "What changed? Source selection is how you keep an answer inside the textbook when that is what you need."
  9. Thirty-second Studio peek Open the pre-generated quiz. Do not generate anything live.
    "Everything on this side — quizzes, flashcards, audio, video — comes later today. First we master sources and evidence."
  10. Hand it to them Teachers reproduce steps 1–6 with the shared practice source. Walk the room asking: Can you show me the source? The citation? What evidence supports this answer?
Ask the room "Which class do you teach? Tell me what YOUR notebook name would be." — get three answers aloud before the hands-on starts.
If it goes wrong PDF upload fails → paste the chapter text as a copied-text source and carry on. Wi-Fi crawls → switch to your backup screenshots and let teachers watch, then reproduce during the break. A teacher can't find their upload → check for an accidentally created second notebook first.

Demo 2 · The Source-Quality Shootout

Any subject — use Class 6 Science or Social Module 3 · ~10 min Spends: 3 chats
Prep the evening before Prepare three versions of the same textbook page: (1) a deliberately bad photo — tilted, shadowed, half the page cut off; (2) a clean flat photo; (3) the official searchable PDF. Add all three to one notebook, named clearly: BLURRY PHOTO / CLEAR PHOTO / OFFICIAL PDF. Pre-run the validation prompt on each and screenshot the three responses in case of slow Wi-Fi.
  1. Select only the BLURRY source Deselect the other two. Announce what you're about to prove.
    "Same page, three qualities. Watch what the machine can and cannot see."
  2. Run the validation prompt
    Validation prompt (use for all three)
    Identify the page title, headings, definitions, examples and diagram labels visible in this source. Then list anything that appears unclear or unreadable.
    Read the response aloud. Circle every miss and misreading on the projector.
  3. Ask the room to judge What was missed? Was any text misread? Would you build a worksheet from this? Let them say "no" — don't say it for them.
  4. Switch to the CLEAR photo, same prompt Point out what improved: headings caught, Telugu characters read, diagram labels present. Still check: equations? Table labels? The corners of the page?
  5. Switch to the OFFICIAL PDF, same prompt The response is the most complete of the three.
    "This is why the official SCERT or NCERT PDF is your first choice, every time it exists. Photograph only what has no PDF — your workbooks, your school's own material."
  6. Recap with CLEAR on the board Clear · Linked to the objective · Educationally reliable · Age appropriate · Relevant and sufficient. Run the winning PDF through all five aloud.
  7. Teach the photo checklist in 60 seconds One page at a time, flat, camera directly above, no glare, four corners visible, crop the table away, retake anything blurred.
  8. Hand it to them Every teacher photographs one page of the textbook they brought — using the checklist — uploads it, and runs the same validation prompt. They write down one thing NotebookLM recognised correctly and one thing that needs caution.
Verify live On the PDF response, open one citation and confirm a definition matches the page. Even a good source gets the evidence check — that's the habit.
If it goes wrong The blurry photo works better than expected → excellent, say so honestly: "sometimes it copes — but would you bet your worksheet on it?" Then show a second, worse photo (keep a truly terrible one in reserve). Uploads queue up on school Wi-Fi → run the exercise on your prepared responses and let teachers upload during the break.

Demo 3 · The Prompt Ladder

Class 7 · Science · Kinetic Energy Module 4 · ~12 min Spends: 4–5 chats
Prep the evening before Kinetic-energy notebook ready with the chapter PDF loaded and validated. The four ladder prompts below in a text file for instant pasting. Know which sentence of the Prompt 3 output you will pick on for the refinement step (there is always one — usually a phrase too abstract for Class 7).
  1. Run the weak prompt, deadpan
    Rung 1 — weak vague
    Explain kinetic energy.
    Read the output. Then interrogate it with the room: Which class is this for? What's the purpose? How long should it be? Which examples? How do we check understanding? — five questions, five shrugs.
  2. Rung 2 — add the class
    Rung 2 — better class added
    Explain kinetic energy for Class 7.
    Acknowledge the improvement, name what's still missing: objective, examples, format, checks.
  3. Rung 3 — full CLASS structure
    Rung 3 — strong CLASS applied
    Using the selected sources, explain kinetic energy for Class 7 students. Use a bicycle, cricket ball and moving school bus as examples. Avoid advanced algebra. End with three prediction questions.
    Read the output with relish. Point at each requirement being met: the bus example — there. No algebra — check. Three prediction questions — there.
  4. Rung 4 — make it review itself
    Rung 4 — refine review request
    Review the explanation you produced. Identify any sentence that may be too difficult for Class 7, any claim that needs source verification and any example that could create a misconception. Rewrite the explanation after addressing these issues.
    Put the before/after sentences side by side on the projector.
    "Prompting is not about finding one magical sentence. It is a conversation of instruction, review and refinement."
  5. Verify live Pick one factual claim from the final version, open its citation, confirm it against the chapter. If the rewrite dropped its citations, ask: "Which source supports the claim about mass and speed?"
  6. Show the evidence trail Scroll the chat history top to bottom.
    "This scroll — weak prompt, better prompt, refinement — is exactly the evidence your certification assignment needs. Don't delete it."
  7. Hand it to them Each teacher climbs the same four rungs on their own topic, generates rung 4, and writes down one weakness plus the refinement that fixed it.
If it goes wrong Rung 1 output is surprisingly good → point out it's still generic: "good for whom? There is no Class 7 in it." Rung 4 over-simplifies → perfect teaching moment: refinement is iterative, run one more instruction. Chat quota worries → this demo is worth its five chats; trim Demo 6 instead.

Demo 4 · Three-Level Worksheet

Class 4 · Mathematics · Fractions Module 5 · ~8 min Spends: 2–3 chats
Prep the evening before Notebook with the Class 4 fractions chapter (official PDF). Solve three of the likely answer-key items yourself in advance so your live hand-check is quick and confident.
  1. Name the teaching problem first
    "Same classroom: three students finish in two minutes, five students can't start. One worksheet cannot serve both — unless it has levels."
  2. Generate the worksheet
    Three-level worksheet
    Create a worksheet for Class 4 on fractions using only the selected sources. Include 9 questions: 3 basic, 3 expected level and 3 challenge. Use school situations familiar to village students (mid-day meal, cricket, mango sharing). Provide the answer key separately at the end.
    Point out the structure as it appears: levels labelled, key separated.
  3. Verify the answer key BY HAND — the star moment Pick two answers. Work them out on the whiteboard, longhand, in front of everyone.
    "The machine wrote the key. The teacher checks the key. If I hand out one wrong answer, thirty students learn it wrong."
    If both check out, say so. If one is wrong, celebrate — the room just watched verification earn its keep.
  4. Refine for your classroom
    Refinement
    Question 7 is too abstract for Class 4. Rewrite the three challenge questions as short word problems, one sentence each, using only numbers up to 20.
    (Adapt the instruction to whatever the actual weakness is — name it specifically.)
  5. Add the teacher's secret weapon
    Misconception note
    Identify five likely misconceptions Class 4 students have about fractions. For each, give a diagnostic question and a one-line teacher explanation, with the source evidence.
    "The worksheet is for the students. This note is for you — it tells you what the wrong answers will mean."
  6. Hand it to them Primary teachers generate a three-level worksheet on their own chapter; secondary teachers may swap in their subject. Everyone hand-checks at least one answer before calling it done.
Ask the room "Think of your own class register. Which three students get the challenge sheet? Which five need the basic sheet first?" — differentiation becomes real when it has names.
If it goes wrong Questions ignore the level structure → refine: "Make the basic questions single-step and the challenge questions two-step." Key has an error → best possible outcome, verify loudly and fix. Printer politics → the worksheet reads fine from a phone screen held by the teacher; printing is optional, dictating questions works too.

Demo 5 · Picture Vocabulary Circle Time

LKG/UKG · Telugu–English Module 5 · ~6 min Spends: 2 chats
Prep the evening before Notebook with an early-years source: the SCERT pre-primary material or a simple animals/shapes picture-book PDF. Remember the framing: early-years outputs are teacher-delivered — the children never touch the tool.
  1. Set the frame
    "Nothing today puts a device in a four-year-old's hand. The AI prepares the teacher; the teacher delivers the magic."
  2. Generate the circle-time plan
    Picture vocabulary activity
    Create a teacher-led picture vocabulary activity for UKG on farm animals, using only the selected source. Give 5 animals with their Telugu and English names, one action or sound for each, three simple oral questions, and one matching-game plan. Everything will be spoken aloud by the teacher — children will not read anything.
  3. Read it as a performance Act out one item — the action, the sound, the Telugu word, the English word. Get one early-years teacher to do the second animal. The room laughs; the point lands: this is a script for a human, not a screen for a child.
  4. Check the language like an ammamma
    "Is 'ఆవు' the word these children hear at home? Would you say it exactly like this in your classroom? You are the naturalness checker — no machine can do that for a four-year-old."
  5. Adapt it live
    Refinement
    Turn this into a 10-minute circle-time plan: welcome song suggestion, the five animals with actions, the matching game, and a goodbye question. Keep every instruction one sentence long.
  6. Hand it to them Early-years teachers build one activity on their own theme (colours, fruits, good habits). Everyone else watches this one — it's the fastest demo of the day and the one primary teachers steal ideas from.
If it goes wrong Output reads too formal for four-year-olds → refine: "Use words a UKG child in a Telangana village hears daily." Telugu word choice is off → let the room supply the right word and edit it in manually; that IS the lesson. No early-years source at hand → pasted text of a rhyme or word list works as a source.

Demo 6 · Board-Exam Revision Pack

Class 10 · Science or Social Module 5 · ~10 min Spends: 3 chats + pre-generated flashcards
Prep the evening before Class 10 notebook (e.g. "Acids, Bases and Salts" or a history chapter) with the official PDF. Pre-generate the flashcards in Studio — don't wait for them live. Have last year's board question paper nearby for the pattern comparison in step 4.
  1. Set the stakes
    "Class 10 is where preparation time matters most and where a wrong 'fact' costs the most. So this demo is half generation, half verification."
  2. One-page revision guide
    Revision guide
    Create a one-page revision guide for Class 10 on this chapter: key terms with one-line definitions, the concepts students must be able to explain, common mistakes in board answers, and five self-check questions. Use only the selected sources.
  3. Source-grounded question bank
    Question bank
    Create five recall questions, five application questions and two reasoning questions on this chapter. Provide answers, and after each answer name the source section that supports it.
    Point at the source references under each answer — this is what "source-grounded" buys you.
  4. The board-pattern caution — say it plainly Hold up the real question paper.
    "NotebookLM knows your chapter. It does NOT know this year's board pattern, marks weightage or paper style. You match the questions to the board — never outsource that."
    Refine one question live:
    Pattern refinement
    Rewrite question 4 in the style of a two-mark board examination question: short stem, precise command word (define / list / state), answerable in three lines.
  5. Verify live Take one answer from the bank, open its citation, read the textbook line aloud. One claim, one source, thirty seconds — every time.
  6. Reveal the pre-generated flashcards Open Studio, show the flashcard set, flip four or five.
    "Generated last night in one click. Your students revise formulas on these during the last week — after you have checked every card."
  7. Hand it to them Secondary teachers build the guide + bank on their own chapter and verify two answers by citation before showing you.
If it goes wrong Question bank leans too heavily on recall → refine: "Replace three recall questions with application questions using new situations." An answer's citation doesn't support it → gold: run the fix live (correct the claim, re-ask, re-check). Flashcards weren't pre-generated and Studio is slow → skip them, the guide + bank carry the demo.

Demo 7 · Classroom Telugu, Three Ways

Class 5 · Science · Evaporation Module 6 · ~10 min Spends: 3 chats
Prep the evening before Use the language notebook (Notebook 3) or the water-cycle notebook — evaporation is the ideal concept: every student has seen clothes dry. Know where the output-language setting is. Identify the Telugu-medium teachers in the room beforehand — they are your expert panel in step 5.
  1. Version 1 — English baseline
    V1 · English
    Explain evaporation for Class 5 students using simple English and two familiar examples.
    Read it. Fine, unremarkable — that's the point of a baseline.
  2. Version 2 — direct Telugu
    V2 · Direct Telugu baseline
    Explain evaporation in Telugu for Class 5 students.
    Read a few lines aloud. It will sound fluent — and probably bookish.
  3. Version 3 — customised classroom Telugu
    V3 · Classroom Telugu customised
    Using only the selected sources, explain evaporation in natural classroom Telugu suitable for Class 5. Keep commonly used English technical terms in brackets where they improve understanding. Avoid overly formal translation. Use the example of clothes drying on a line. End with three oral questions.
  4. Put V2 and V3 side by side Compare on the projector: sentence length, formality, whether "evaporation" appears in brackets, whether the drying-clothes example survived, numbers and units.
  5. Make the room the expert — the star moment Hand the comparison to the Telugu-medium teachers: "Which version would you actually say in your classroom? Which word does the textbook use? What would you change?" Take one correction from them and edit it into the text live.
    "See what just happened: the machine drafted, the language teacher decided. Fluent-looking Telugu is not proof of correct or natural Telugu — you are the final reviewers."
  6. Bonus if time allows — bilingual table
    Bilingual vocabulary
    Create a bilingual English–Telugu vocabulary table for this chapter with the term, Telugu meaning, simple explanation and one example from daily life.
  7. Hand it to them Every teacher generates one Telugu or bilingual output and marks: a phrase accepted, a phrase changed, a term kept in English brackets, and one item needing a subject teacher's eye.
If it goes wrong V2 comes out surprisingly natural → compare terminology against the textbook anyway; the gap is usually there. Telugu renders oddly on the projector → zoom the browser, or read from your phone. Room has no Telugu-medium teachers → you play the critic, but slower: "would MY students say this?"

Demo 8 · Audio Overview for Revision & Absent Students

Classes 8–9 · any chapter Module 5 / Extension · ~8 min + background wait Spends: 1 of ~3 daily Audio Overviews — budget it!
Prep the evening before — non-negotiable here Pre-generate the finished Audio Overview (in Telugu or English as suits your room) and test the speakers. Audio generation is quota-limited (~3/day on a free account at last check) and takes minutes — this demo shows the live start, then plays the prepared result. That two-track trick is itself the lesson.
  1. Name the two teaching needs
    "Need one: a student was absent for a week. Need two: revision for students who learn better by listening than reading. One feature serves both."
  2. Show the customisation box BEFORE generating Open Studio → Audio Overview → customise. Type the steering instruction on screen:
    Audio steering instruction
    Focus only on this chapter. Keep it under 10 minutes. Use simple English suitable for Class 8. Explain the three key terms slowly, with one everyday example each. This is for revision before a unit test.
    Point at the output-language option — Telugu is on the list.
    "Customise BEFORE you generate. Afterwards is too late — and each generation spends your daily limit."
  3. Start the generation — then walk away from it Click generate. Show the room it is running.
    "This takes minutes, sometimes many. A prepared teacher starts it during lunch, not during class. So — here is the one I made last night."
  4. Play the pre-generated overview Play 60–90 seconds through the speakers. Let the room react to the two-host conversation format.
  5. Verify by ear Pick one factual claim you heard. Pause, open the notebook, find the source line.
    "Audio is the easiest format to trust and the hardest to skim. Verify by ear: one claim, pause, check. AI voices can state wrong things beautifully."
  6. Show the delivery path Download / share the audio → it travels to students the way your school already shares things (WhatsApp group, memory card, school speaker). School policy decides the channel — never share student data back the other way.
  7. Hand it to them — the homework pattern Teachers write their own steering instruction now (that costs nothing) and generate the audio at home tonight, inside their own quota. Instructions are checked in-session; audio is checked in three days with the assignment.
If it goes wrong Live generation errors or quota is exhausted → nothing is lost, the prepared file carries the whole demo. Speakers fail → play from your phone held to the mic, or show the transcript instead. The audio pronounces Telugu terms oddly → note it as exactly the kind of thing a teacher catches and a machine doesn't.

Demo 9 · From Concept to 8-Second Clips Extension 4 · not assessed

Class 7 · Science · Kinetic Energy Extension · ~15 min Depends on free image/video quotas — re-check that week
Prep the evening before Storyboard already generated in the kinetic-energy notebook. One or two consistent character images already created. One finished 8-second clip already rendered. Confirm that week whether free image and video generation is available in your region and account — availability and limits change; the pre-made assets carry the demo regardless.
  1. Anchor it in the source first
    "Everything starts grounded. No storyboard until the concept itself is verified — accuracy before animation, always."
    Show the verified kinetic-energy explanation from Demo 3.
  2. Generate (or reveal) the six-scene storyboard
    Storyboard prompt
    Using the selected Class 7 kinetic-energy sources, create a six-scene educational storyboard. Use one recurring stick-character student and familiar examples. For every scene provide the educational point, narration, visual description and a question for students.
    Read scenes 1 and 2 aloud: stationary bicycle → starting to pedal → moving faster.
  3. Turn scene 1 into an image instruction
    Image prompt template
    Simple flat illustration for a Class 7 science lesson: a friendly stick-figure student standing beside a bicycle on a plain light background. Clean lines, no text in the image, consistent character design for a series.
    Generate one image live in the image tool if quota allows; otherwise show your pre-made pair. Point out the consistency instruction — same character across scenes.
  4. Animate one scene
    Image-to-video instruction
    The student starts pedalling and the bicycle moves slowly from left to right. Camera static, simple flat animation style, no text on screen.
    Start it live if available — then play the pre-rendered clip while it cooks. Eight seconds, 720p: perfect for one concept beat, useless for a lecture — and that's the design insight.
  5. Verify the media against the source
    "Watch as a scientist: the faster bicycle should read as MORE energy. Does the clip actually show that, or just show movement? Check the storyboard's claim against the chapter before any student sees it."
  6. State the boundaries — slowly No student faces or personal data · no copyrighted cartoon characters · educational value over polish · teacher review before anything is published · quotas and availability change, so never build a lesson that depends on this pipeline.
  7. Close by protecting the core
    "If you forget everything in this demo, you lose nothing. If you forget how to verify a source-grounded worksheet, you lose the whole programme. Video is the garnish — NotebookLM discipline is the meal."
    Mention the voluntary school showcase for teachers who take this further.
If it goes wrong Image or video generation unavailable/quota-hit → run the entire demo from your pre-made storyboard, images and clip; the pipeline is the lesson, not the live render. The clip looks janky → say so cheerfully; polish is not the assessment criterion, accuracy is. Teachers get excited and want to spend the day here → "after certification, gladly" — and point them to the showcase.
After every demo

Demonstrate → reproduce → adapt → check understanding.

A demo the teachers didn't reproduce within ten minutes is a performance, not training. Hand it to them every single time.

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