Turn what you teach into something students want to be part of with punchy lesson titles, catchy slogans, eye-catching visuals, and bold designs. Use AI to quickly generate names, taglines, logos, and graphics that make your units more memorable. No design skills required, just your ideas and a few smart prompts.
The Science of Catching Attention
According to Hidi and Renninger's Four-Phase Model of Interest Development, interest often begins with Triggered Situational Interest.
Before students engage deeply with content, something in the environment needs to capture their attention. Novelty, surprise, and other attention-grabbing elements can spark this initial interest.
A lesson's name, slogan, and logo can act as the initial "catch," using novelty to break routine and invite curiosity.
THE NAME AND SLOGAN
Act as a creative naming and branding expert. I am teaching a unit on to students. Generate 3 clever, catchy, and memorable name ideas for this unit, each paired with a short, attention-grabbing slogan. The names should make students curious and add personality to the learning. Get creative with puns, alliteration, rhymes, double meanings, unexpected word combinations, pop culture references, and playful twists on familiar expressions. Think of the kind of clever titles you'd see on a movie poster, a catchy advertising campaign, or a popular game. Keep names concise (5 words max) and make the slogans reinforce the cleverness or spark curiosity. Give me distinctly different options. Focus on creative, memorable ways to name the unit rather than developing an overarching theme or suggesting activities. For each option, include a brief explanation of why the name and slogan work well for the topic and grade level.
THE GRAPHIC
My unit is called , and its slogan is . Act as a creative visual designer and AI image prompt engineer. Write 5 distinct, ready-to-use text prompts that I can copy and paste into an AI image generator. Do not generate any images. Only write the 5 prompts. Each prompt should describe a visually striking unit title screen inspired by the unit name and slogan. Explore different artistic styles and visual approaches, making each option noticeably different. Design each image in a 16:9 landscape format for a classroom screen, with the unit name and slogan prominently displayed and spelled exactly as provided. Aim for a polished, professionally designed look with intentional composition, appealing colors, and distinctive visual personality. Avoid generic AI-generated aesthetics, excessive visual effects, clutter, overly glossy 3D rendering, and stereotypical AI imagery.
THE COLORS AND FONTS
Act as a professional graphic designer. Look at the uploaded unit logo and generate a cohesive, high-contrast visual theme for my classroom materials based entirely on its style and colors. Give me: 1) A palette of 3 colors that perfectly match or complement the logo, listed by both their descriptive names and their exact Hex codes, and 2) One clean font pairing (one bold font for slide headers and one highly readable font for body text) that fits the vibe of the logo, ensuring both fonts are completely free and available to download from fonts.google.com. Keep the response short, clear, and ready to use.
THE SOUNDTRACK
I'm uploading an image that represents my unit's visual identity. Use it as inspiration to compose a short, catchy instrumental theme that captures the image's personality, mood, colors, and overall vibe. Make it sound like the opening theme for a TV show, movie, or video game. Create a memorable melody, an engaging rhythm, and a distinctive musical hook. Keep it upbeat and appropriate for students. Instrumental only: no singing, lyrics, or spoken words. Aim for approximately 20–30 seconds.
Animate your logo using Gemini Pro (requires paid subscription). Video are 10-15 seconds long.
Open a new Gemini Chat.
Click Tools in the chat box and choose Video.
Upload your logo to the chat box.
Enter a prompt that instructs Gemini how to animate. Request that it loops.
Animate your logo using Google Vids. Video are 15 seconds long.
Go to vids.new.
Start a blank video.
Insert → Generate an AI Video Clip
Choose the Animate tab and add your image.
Enter a description of what should happen in your animation and click Generate.
After its generated, click Insert.
Go to File → Download. Choose GIF animation or MP4 video.
Animate your logo using Canva. Video are 5 seconds long.
Upload your logo to Canva.
Open the logo in a new design.
With logo selected, click Edit in the top toolbar.
Select Image to Video.
Choose Smart or Custom and click Generate.