You don't need someone else's finished prompt. You need to see the four pieces that make one work — then you can build your own for whatever's in front of you next.
"Create a Biomechanics workbook for VCE PE Unit 3." A single request, generated once, handed out as-is. It covers the basics — but it's thin: no worked examples, no diagrams described, nothing matched to a specific Area of Study.
Try it: before reading further, type what you'd ask Claude to check first.
There's no wrong answer here — the point is that diagnosing comes before rewriting. Compare your instinct with Step 3 below.
Shapes vocabulary, depth, and what Claude assumes you already know.
Say what should be produced — not just the topic.
The constraints that actually matter: unit, AoS, year level, what to prioritise.
The shape of the output — table, worksheet, script, rubric.
Three short exchanges — each fixing one named thing — gets you further than one long prompt ever will. This is the habit worth building, not a single perfect prompt.