🚀 Level 3 · Advanced
📘 Chapter 1
⏱️ 15 minutes
Show Claude Your Work
Claude can look at your notes, diagrams and pictures too. Learn what is safe to share, how to ask about it, and how to double-check what Claude sees.
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🔁 Remember:
🎭 Role
🎯 Task
📌 Details
📐 Format
Now add a new detail: the file or picture itself!
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Important: Ask a parent or teacher before you upload anything. Share only your own schoolwork, textbook pages and drawings. Never share photos of faces, ID cards, report cards, or anything showing names, addresses or phone numbers. Check which kinds of files your app allows.
Your photo album
Chapter 1 at a glance
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1.1 What can Claude look at?
🎯 Goal: know what you can share and why it helps- Many Claude apps let you attach a file or a picture to your message. Your app may allow different types, so check.
- Claude can read the text in notes or documents and describe diagrams, tables and charts.
- Showing the real page is often faster and clearer than typing it all out.
- It is just one more detail in your prompt. Role, Task, Details and Format still matter!
🖼️ Things you could share (safely)
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Textbook pagea diagram or a problem🎨
Your drawinga plant, map or poster📊
A chartfrom your science project✍️
Your notestyped or handwritten🌍 Real-life examples
🔬 Science diagramShare a page showing the parts of a flower and ask Claude to explain each part in simple words.
🗺️ Map workShare a map from your atlas and ask Claude to help you quiz yourself on the labels.
🚀 Try it yourself (with a grown-up)
I am attaching a diagram from my Class 7 science textbook. Explain each labelled part in one simple line, then give me 3 questions to test myself.
❌ Weak prompt“What is this?”
Claude does not know what you need.
Claude does not know what you need.
✅ Good prompt“Explain each labelled part of this textbook diagram in one line.”
Task and format are clear.
Task and format are clear.
🎉 Fun fact: A picture can hold lots of information, so a short clear question about it works best. Say exactly what you want!
📝 Quick quiz
1. Name two things you can safely share with Claude.
✅ Examples: a textbook diagram, your own drawing, typed notes.
2. Do Role, Task, Details and Format still matter with a picture?A) Yes B) No
✅ A. The picture is just one more detail.
3. Who should you ask before uploading something?
✅ A parent or teacher.
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1.2 Share safely
🎯 Goal: decide in seconds if a file is safe to share- Pictures can hide personal details: a name at the top, a phone number in a corner, a house number in the background.
- Use the traffic light. Green is fine, yellow needs a fix first, red means stop.
- For yellow files, crop or cover the private part before sharing.
- When unsure, ask a grown-up or type the question instead of sharing the picture.
🚦 The Share Traffic Light
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GREEN: Go ahead (with a grown-up)Textbook pages, your own drawings, science project charts, notes with no personal details.
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YELLOW: Fix firstYour own homework with your name on it, notes with a phone number in the corner, a worksheet with your school’s name. Crop or cover those parts.
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RED: Do not shareFaces and photos of people, ID cards, report cards, anything showing an address, passwords or OTPs.
🌍 Real-life examples
🟡 Maths homeworkYour name is written at the top. Cover it with a sticky note before taking the photo.
🔴 Class photoIt shows friends’ faces. Never share it. Describe your question in words instead.
🚀 Try it yourself
I will share my maths working (I covered my name). Please do not ask me for any personal details. Check each line of my working and tell me where the first mistake is, with a hint.
❌ Weak habitSnap your whole desk and send it, name, address label and all.
Personal details travel with the picture.
Personal details travel with the picture.
✅ Good habitCrop to just the problem, cover private parts and ask a grown-up first.
Share only what Claude needs.
Share only what Claude needs.
🏆 Mini challenge: Look around your desk. Which 3 things would be GREEN, and which would be RED?
📝 Quick quiz
1. Which colour is a photo of your friends’ faces?
✅ 🔴 Red. Do not share it.
2. What do you do with a yellow file?A) Share it as is B) Crop or cover private parts first
✅ B. Fix it first.
3. Name two things that must never appear in a shared picture.
✅ Any two of: faces, ID cards, addresses, phone numbers, passwords or OTPs.
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1.3 Ask about what you share
🎯 Goal: write clear questions about a file or picture- Point to the part you mean: “the second diagram”, “question 4”, “the table at the bottom”.
- Ask one clear thing at a time: explain, check, quiz or summarise.
- Add a role and a format, like “as my Class 8 teacher, in 3 bullet points”.
- Want to learn? Ask for a hint or a check, not the final answer.
🧩 The Picture Prompt
📎 Show
“I am attaching a page from my science textbook.”
👉 Point
“Look at the second diagram only.”
🎯 Task
“Explain how it works in simple words.”
📐 Format
“Use 4 short steps, then 2 quiz questions.”
🌍 Real-life examples
🔢 Check my working“Here is my solution. Tell me the first line with a mistake, but do not give the answer.”
📊 Read a chart“What does this bar chart show? Give 3 things I can say in my project.”
🚀 Try it yourself
Act as my Class 8 science teacher. I am attaching a textbook page. Look at the second diagram only. Explain how it works in 4 short steps, then ask me 2 questions one at a time.
❌ Weak prompt“Do this.”
Which part? Do what?
Which part? Do what?
✅ Good prompt“Look at question 4. Give me a hint, not the answer.”
Part and help-type are named.
Part and help-type are named.
🎉 Fun fact: Asking for a hint instead of the answer works the same with pictures as with text. You keep learning!
📝 Quick quiz
1. Why point to a specific part of the picture?
✅ So Claude knows exactly what you are asking about.
2. Which is better for learning?A) “Solve it.” B) “Find my first mistake and give a hint.”
✅ B. You do the thinking.
3. Name the 4 parts of the Picture Prompt.
✅ Show, Point, Task and Format.
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1.4 Check what Claude sees
🎯 Goal: catch misreads before you trust an answer- Claude can misread messy handwriting, small numbers or blurry pictures.
- Take a clear, straight, well-lit photo and keep it close to the page.
- Ask “What did you read in my picture?” before you trust the answer.
- Check numbers, labels and spellings against your original.
🔄 The Look-Twice Loop
📷1. Clear photostraight and bright
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🗣️2. “What did you read?”Claude lists it
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🔎3. Comparewith the original
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✅4. Then trustand fix any slip
🌍 Real-life examples
🔢 A misread numberClaude reads “58” as “38”. You compare with your page and tell it the correct number.
🏷️ A wrong labelA diagram label is small and blurry. You retake a closer photo and ask again.
🚀 Try it yourself
Before you answer, list exactly what you can read in my picture: all the text, numbers and labels. Tell me if anything is unclear or hard to read.
❌ Weak habitTrust the answer without checking what Claude read.
A misread number gives a wrong answer.
A misread number gives a wrong answer.
✅ Good habitAsk what it read, compare, then use the answer.
Errors get caught early.
Errors get caught early.
🏆 Mini challenge: Write a short note in your neatest and then your messiest handwriting. Ask Claude to read both. What changes?
📝 Quick quiz
1. What can Claude misread?
✅ Messy handwriting, tiny numbers and blurry pictures.
2. What should you ask first?A) “What did you read in my picture?” B) “Be quick.”
✅ A. It shows any misreads.
3. How do you take a better photo?
✅ Clear, straight, well-lit and close to the page.
🚦 Share or Don’t Share?
Read each item and tap the traffic light. 8 items. Can you get 7 or more?
💡 Tip: If you are not sure, treat it as yellow or red and ask a grown-up. Ask a teacher if you disagree with an answer.
Chapter 1 summary
Know what Claude can see • Share safely • Point and ask clearly • Check what it read.