What a Curriculate session actually looks like

Setup: Six teams of four scan the classroom's colored CurricQR stations to claim their starting spots. The taskset was generated this morning from a 3-sentence lesson description — including Quest Mode + Auto-Duels.

1. 0:00

   Mission briefing — Quest Mode

   Quest

   Each team sees: 'Your classroom greenhouse is dying. To save the plants, your team must gather 3 supplies before the bell. You start with 0 coins.' The QuestHud lights up at the top of every student's device with a coin counter at 🪙 0.

2. 2:30

   Quick true/false set

   First task: 5 fast statements about plants. Each correct answer earns 4 coins. Team Green nails all 5 (🪙 0 → 🪙 20). Team Yellow gets 3 right (🪙 0 → 🪙 12).

3. 6:00

   What Am I? — Photosynthesis itself

   What Am I?

   "I turn one form of energy into another." Team Green guesses right at clue 1 for 10 pts. Team Yellow taps "Reveal clue 2" → "I only happen where chlorophyll lives" → answers and gets 8 pts.

4. 9:00

   Resource shop opens

   Quest

   Students tap the QuestHud to open the supply depot: 🪙 5 buys SUNLIGHT, 🪙 8 buys WATER, 🪙 10 buys CHLOROPHYLL. Team Green buys all three. Team Yellow has 🪙 6 — they need to earn more.

5. 13:00

   ⚔️ AUTO-DUEL

   Duel

   Team Green has 32 pts, Team Yellow has 28 pts — gap of 4. The server fires a duel. Maya from Green vs Liam from Yellow. Both phones show a full-screen 3-2-1 countdown. Question: "True or False: Plants release oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis." Liam taps TRUE in 1.4s. Yellow wins +12 bonus, Green gets +2 consolation.

6. 16:00

   Body Break (built-in)

   Generator inserted a 60-second movement break. Whole class jumps, stretches, sits back down. Tasks resume.

7. 18:30

   Sort the inputs vs outputs (Sort task)

   Drag-and-drop: sunlight, water, CO₂ → INPUTS · oxygen, sugar → OUTPUTS. Correct sorts award coins on top of points. Team Yellow finally hits 🪙 18 and buys CHLOROPHYLL.

8. 24:00

   Mission Launch (when all 3 supplies acquired)

   Quest

   Team Green hits the LAUNCH MISSION button. Their HUD plays a celebration animation. Other teams race to gather their last supply.

9. 30:00

   Hidden task unlocks for fast finishers

   Quest

   Because Team Green completed the core mission with 5+ minutes left, a "Storm Before Harvest" hidden challenge appears: "Name TWO plants that survive in low-light conditions." Worth a Legendary Voyage badge.

10. 33:00

    Session ends → teacher's inbox

    Team scoreboard, Bloom's analysis (REMEMBER 30%, UNDERSTAND 40%, ANALYZE 30%), per-student feedback, Edsby-ready CSV, parent notes — all attached to one email. Maya's report shows: 'Strong cue-reading, fast at concept recall, contributed 4 of 7 quest decisions.'

Setup: An Escape Room taskset generated from the teacher's word list (Confederation, Loyalists, Responsible Government, War of 1812). Teams need to escape 'The Library' before the bell — but the door's password is locked behind curriculum understanding.

1. 0:00

   Whodunnit activates silently

   Whodunnit

   One player (chosen randomly by the server) gets a private banner: "🤫 You're the SABOTEUR. Play it cool. Try to stay under the radar." No one else knows. The class starts a normal-looking taskset.

2. 2:00

   Lock #1: The Library Door

   Escape Room

   Each team's screen shows: "A heavy oak door blocks your way. A keypad glows beside it." Hint: "Lord Durham's report was written in what year?" Teams need to earn the LIBRARY-CODE key. The key is granted by completing the next task correctly.

3. 4:00

   Short-answer: Confederation date

   Teams answer '1867'. The HUD adds 🗝 LIBRARY-CODE to their key chips. Lock #1 opens silently — narrative beat: 'You hear footsteps echoing far away…'

4. 9:00

   What Am I? — The Magna Carta

   What Am I?

   Inter-team mode. Server-locked ceiling drops together for all teams. "Without me, the idea that even kings answer to written law might never have taken hold." Team Red shouts the answer at clue 2 (8 pts).

5. 14:00

   📢 Whodunnit clue auto-released

   Whodunnit

   Every team's clue board updates: "The suspect recently scanned at the Yellow station." This is TRUE — the saboteur (Marcus, in Team Blue) really did just scan there. So did 2 other students. Real deduction begins.

6. 20:00

   Lock #2: requires 2 keys

   Escape Room

   Multi-path: teams need RESPONSIBLE-GOVT-KEY and 1812-WAR-KEY. They split: half the team works on a peer-editing task, half answers a Reading Comp passage.

7. 29:00

   Fragment earned: a code digit

   Team Red hits 80% core progress. A bonus task unlocks: "Decode the Loyalist letter." Solving it grants a fragment — the 4th digit of the final code, revealed as 🟨 7.

8. 35:00

   Team Blue accuses Marcus

   Whodunnit

   🕵 Their HUD says "Make an accusation." Costs 50 pts. They pick Marcus. The server reveals: CORRECT. Suspect locked. +200 reward. The other teams see only "Team Blue made a correct accusation" — Marcus is never publicly named on the leaderboard.

9. 42:00

   Final Lock: The Vault

   Escape Room

   Synthesis puzzle. Teams have collected 4 cipher-digits across the room (1, 8, 6, 7 — Confederation year). The final lock's display shows them 1 _ _ _ . They tap 1 → 8 → 6 → 7. The vault swings open.

10. 50:00

    Hidden challenge unlocks: 'The Storm Before Harbour'

    Because Team Red completed with 5+ minutes remaining, an elite hidden challenge appears. 20 bonus points + the "Legendary Voyage" badge in their report.

11. 55:00

    Reports + reveal

    Teacher's inbox: per-team summary, who answered what, which curriculum terms each team showed mastery on. Marcus's report frames the saboteur reveal as a fun moment, not a stigma. Parent emails go out for Plus-tier accounts.

Setup: A 'Hole in One' physics-driven taskset paired with Careers discussion blocks. Generated from the spec 'Geometry review — visual, kinesthetic.' The teacher selects 'New mode: Hole in One.'

1. 0:00

   Brain Spark Notes intro

   A short reading appears: "Geometry isn't just shapes — every bridge, every circuit board, every architectural plan rests on it. Today you'll feel that physically." Teams scan to acknowledge.

2. 3:00

   Hole in One — Earn phase

   Hole in One

   15 quick geometry questions appear, one at a time. "What's the area of a 6×8 rectangle?" "If a triangle's angles are 50° and 70°, what's the third?" Correct answers award coins. Team Magenta nails 13 of 15 (🪙 65).

3. 12:00

   Hole in One — Build phase

   Hole in One

   Each team's device shows a board: ball in top-left, hole in bottom-right, two pre-placed walls. The team taps to drop straight rails (🪙 3), curved rails (🪙 5), bumpers (🪙 4) onto the grid. Team Magenta puts a "funnel" of rails around the hole. Team Olive builds an aggressive shortcut over a gap.

4. 20:00

   Hole in One — Tilter pick

   "Who's tilting this turn?" Server-suggested rotation: Devi hasn't tilted yet — pre-selected. Team confirms with a tap.

5. 22:00

   TILT! ⚽

   Phone tilts → ball rolls. Team Magenta's funnel works on the first try (+10). Team Olive's shortcut fails twice; they lose two balls and need to earn coins to buy more.

6. 28:00

   Auto-duel fires

   Duel

   Team Magenta 73 pts, Team Olive 65 pts. Within the 10-pt threshold. ⚔️ Maya from Magenta vs Marcus from Olive. Question pulled from the taskset's MC bank: 'What's the sum of interior angles in a hexagon?' Marcus types 720 in 2.1s. Olive +15 bonus. Tide turns.

7. 34:00

   Switch to Careers — Pathway Builder

   Careers

   "Careers in geometry-heavy fields" appears as a discussion task. Teams compare pathways for becoming an architect: 5-year program (~$80k), apprenticeship + cert (~$15k, 6 years), self-taught + portfolio (~$0, uncertain). Pick + justify. Team Olive picks apprenticeship and writes: "Maya's aunt did this and she designs houses now."

8. 41:00

   Hidden bonus: 'Master Tilter'

   Because every team member tilted at least once this session, a class-wide bonus animates on every screen. +5 pts for each player who took a turn. The class cheers.

9. 44:00

   Reports go out

   Per-team report: who tilted, who placed which rails, who answered the geometry questions. Bloom's: APPLY 50%, ANALYZE 30%, EVALUATE 20% (the Careers justification scoring). Per-student improvement column for Plus tier.

Setup: A discussion-heavy taskset combining Script Play (cold reads), What Am I?, and Current Events Connection (live-resolved). Generator was given 'Macbeth Acts 1-2 — ambition, prophecy, conscience' as the topic.

1. 0:00

   Mood check-in

   A soft opening task: "How are you feeling about Macbeth so far?" Five emoji buttons. The teacher dashboard shows the class mood — three students tap 😕 ("confused"). Teacher notes it.

2. 3:00

   Script Play — the witches' prophecy

   Teams pass the device speaker-to-speaker. Each player reads one witch's line. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." On-screen scene visualization shows who speaks next. Plays out for 4 minutes per team.

3. 12:00

   What Am I? — Lady Macbeth

   What Am I?

   "I am the one who pushes when he hesitates." Team Plum guesses at clue 1 for 10 pts. Team Onyx waits for clue 2: "I sleepwalk later, washing imaginary blood from my hands" — answers and earns 8.

4. 18:00

   🌐 Current Events resolves LIVE

   Current Events

   📰 Loading state appears on every screen for 3 seconds. The server hits its web-search pipeline with topic "ambition, prophecy, conscience, Macbeth" and pulls THIS WEEK'S story: a real news piece about a tech CEO's conscience-driven resignation. Lesson connection: "Ambition without conscience is the engine of Macbeth's tragedy."

5. 22:00

   Discussion questions arrive

   "Is conscience a brake on ambition or fuel for it?" · "When in this week's story did the person look most like Macbeth — and what saved them from his fate?" · "Whose ambition counts as good? Whose as dangerous? Who decides?" Teams discuss in pairs.

6. 32:00

   Peer Editing — student-written paragraphs

   Each student wrote a 3-sentence response to the Current Events questions. Now they swap and mark each other's with the peer-editing tool. The "x things to find" counter keeps it fair.

7. 40:00

   Auto-duel fires

   Duel

   Top two teams (Plum 41, Onyx 39) — 2-pt gap. ⚔️ Quick literary head-to-head: 'What's the name of the play's main villain?' Both type 'macbeth' nearly simultaneously. Onyx beats Plum by 0.2s. +9 bonus.

8. 46:00

   Reports go out

   Bloom's analysis shows EVALUATE 35% — high because of the discussion + peer-editing weight. The student who tapped 😕 in the mood check got two affirming peer-edit comments — that's in the teacher's eyes-only summary.

Setup: A Quest-Mode taskset themed around David's preparation for battle. Teacher's worldview profile is set to 'christian' — the AI weaves stewardship, courage, discernment, and humility through the lesson without forcing scripture into every prompt.

1. 0:00

   Mission briefing

   Quest

   "Your team must prepare for a battle bigger than yourselves. You start with nothing but a sling. To win, you'll need: courage, wisdom, a clear voice, and trust." Quest HUD shows 🪙 0 with empty slots for each.

2. 3:00

   Reading Comp + Brain Spark Notes

   Short summary of 1 Samuel 17. Each correct answer awards coins. The COURAGE resource costs 🪙 8, WISDOM 🪙 10, VOICE 🪙 6, TRUST 🪙 12.

3. 10:00

   What Am I? — Goliath

   What Am I?

   "I am the doubt that says 'you're too small for this.' I have shown up in many forms across history." Team Bronze guesses at clue 2 ("I came from Gath") and earns 8 pts.

4. 15:00

   🌐 Current Events — Christian framing

   Current Events

   Live web search pulls a story from this week — a teen who organized food drives at school despite being shy. Connection: "David wasn't the biggest. The story your faith tells is that being small isn't the disqualifier you think it is." Discussion questions weave in *discernment* (how do you know when to stand up?), *humility* (David refused Saul's armor — why?), and *stewardship* of voice (his shepherd skills mattered, even though they looked too small for the moment). Bible verses are NOT forced — the event itself is secular, the framing is faithful.

5. 25:00

   Shop opens

   Quest

   Teams have 🪙 24-32 each. They tap to buy: COURAGE (8) + VOICE (6) leaves them short on WISDOM or TRUST. Team Cedar gets all four because they answered every Reading Comp question right.

6. 30:00

   Auto-duel

   Duel

   Cedar 38, Bronze 34. ⚔️ Quick: "Whose words gave David courage before he faced Goliath?" Two players race — Bronze types "God" in 0.9s. +12 bonus for Bronze, +2 consolation for Cedar.

7. 34:00

   Mission Launch

   Quest

   Team Cedar has all 4 supplies → they tap LAUNCH MISSION. Their HUD plays a celebration animation. The screen reads: "You enter the valley not because you are big, but because you came prepared."

8. 38:00

   Reports go out

   Bloom's analysis (REMEMBER 30%, UNDERSTAND 30%, EVALUATE 25%, CREATE 15%) — high EVALUATE because of the moral discussion. Parent emails for the Plus-tier students include the Current Events discussion questions for dinner-table conversation.