Optional · up to 3 hours

Extension labs

For schools running the extended format. The five-hour core is complete on its own — these labs deepen practice. Only the Telugu lab can affect certification, and only when Telugu content is part of your final artifact.

Lab 1 · Grade-band and subject laboratory 45 min

Working groups by band: Early Years, Primary, Middle School, Secondary, Languages, Mathematics & Science, Social Studies. Every group receives one common source; every teacher individually proposes:

A learning objective and an artifact
An age-specific adaptation and a likely misconception
An assessment idea and a Telugu or bilingual opportunity

The debrief compares how the same source must be handled differently for LKG, Class 5, Class 8 and Class 10.

Lab 2 · Advanced Studio laboratory 45 min

Choose one advanced output: Audio Overview, Video Overview, quiz, flashcards, infographic, slide deck, mind map, or a report/table. Complete the full record:

Intended use → customisation prompt → sources selected
Generated artifact → verification notes
How you will introduce it in class, and the follow-up activity

Note: mobile and browser differ — for example, Mind Maps are currently browser-only. Long generations may not finish during the lab; that is expected, not failure.

Lab 3 · Telugu laboratory 45 min

Generate three versions of one resource: a default Telugu output, a customised Telugu output, and a bilingual version. Compare vocabulary, sentence structure, technical terminology, learner suitability and textbook alignment.

Every teacher makes at least three language edits. Editing is the skill being practised — not generating.

Lab 4 · Creative images & short video 30 min · demo only, not assessed

A demonstration of taking a source-grounded concept beyond NotebookLM:

Ground it — select a concept and generate a simple explanation in NotebookLM.
Storyboard it — ask for a six-scene educational storyboard.
Illustrate it — convert scenes into image-generation instructions; create one or two consistent character images in an external image tool.
Animate it — demonstrate image-to-video for one or two short clips.
Verify it — check the final media against the original sources.

Storyboard prompt (demo)

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.

Boundaries Educational value over polish · accuracy before animation · no student personal information · no unlicensed copyrighted characters · teacher review before publication · quotas, credits and availability change — never build a lesson that depends on them.

Lab 5 · Showcase & action planning 15 min

Each teacher states their assignment topic, intended students, main artifact, source plan, language plan and biggest verification risk. The trainer confirms the scope is right.

Voluntary: creative resources may be submitted for a school showcase — categories like Best Concept Explanation, Best Telugu Resource, Best Early-Years Resource, Best Classroom Application and Best Low-Tech Creation.

The boundary that protects the core

"Teachers should leave knowing how to produce useful source-grounded materials even when they do not generate a video." The creative-media demo never displaces the NotebookLM core.