# Image Prompts — TCEA Curiosity Challenge (October packs) ## How to use this file 1. Copy an image's prompt below into your image generator. 2. The site serves **WebP** (much smaller than PNG). Generate the image, then convert it to WebP at the exact path in its **Save to** line (paths are relative to this `curiosity/` folder), keeping the same filename so the pages find it: ``` cwebp -q 82 your-image.png -o ``` 3. Commit and `git push origin main` from the `activities/` repo — GitHub Pages redeploys `mglearn.github.io/activities/` automatically. No code changes needed. The full disk path is `~/Documents/vibecoding/mglearn/activities/curiosity/`. If a file is ever missing, the activity falls back to "🖼️ Image coming soon — use the text description," so the packs stay usable regardless. **Global rules for every image (from the series visual standard):** - **No text, letters, numbers, or lettering of any kind** in the image. - Classroom-appropriate; any human figures fully clothed (prefer abstract/silhouette or none). - No distorted logos, no fake medals, no copied sacred or personal imagery. - Accurate alt text is provided — keep it with the file. Priority: **★ Functional** images appear inside an activity. **◆ Feature** images are optional polish (social/OG cards, print covers); the landing pages work without them. --- ## World Space Week · `space-week/assets/images/` ### ★ space-week-spot.webp — Image Detective (Challenge 4) **Save to:** `space-week/assets/images/space-week-spot.webp` Students study this caption-free. Depicts the *Pillars of Creation* (basis for the sourced caption). Suggested size: landscape ~1600×1200. > A photorealistic deep-space scene of towering columns of interstellar gas and dust rising like rocky spires from the bottom of the frame toward the upper right, glowing in shades of rust brown, amber, and gold with soft semi-transparent wispy edges. A few finger-like tips at the tops glow deep red. The background is a dark expanse scattered with thousands of sharp multicolored stars, some bright blue-white, others faint and distant. Cinematic, high detail, resembling a near-infrared space telescope portrait of a star-forming nebula. Absolutely no text, letters, numbers, labels, or watermarks anywhere in the image. Classroom-appropriate. **Alt:** Towering columns of brown and gold interstellar gas and dust rising against a dark, star-filled background, evoking a star-forming nebula. ### ◆ space-week-feature.webp — hero / social card **Save to:** `space-week/assets/images/space-week-feature.webp` Suggested size: wide ~2100×900. > A vibrant, inviting hero illustration celebrating space exploration for a classroom activity pack: the curved blue-and-white limb of Earth glowing at the lower edge, a bright Sun flaring at one side, a ringed planet and a small red rocky planet in the distance, and a sleek exploration spacecraft with solar panels drifting among a field of colorful stars and a soft nebula. Bright, optimistic, semi-realistic digital art style suitable for grades 3-12. Absolutely no text, letters, numbers, labels, or watermarks anywhere in the image. Classroom-appropriate. **Alt:** Illustration of Earth's curved horizon, the Sun, distant planets, and an exploration spacecraft among colorful stars, celebrating space exploration. --- ## Nobel Prize · `nobel-prize/assets/images/` ### ◆ nobel-prize-feature.webp — hero / social card **Save to:** `nobel-prize/assets/images/nobel-prize-feature.webp` Suggested size: wide ~2100×900. > A warm, painterly conceptual illustration symbolizing human curiosity and world-changing discovery. A single glowing lightbulb-like spark at center radiates soft golden light, and from it flow interwoven visual motifs: a DNA double helix ribbon, a leafy green sapling growing upward, an open book with pages turning into birds, a cluster of orbiting particles/atoms, and a peaceful sunrise over a horizon. Diverse abstract silhouettes of people of different ages reach toward the light. Rich but calm palette of gold, deep blue, and green. Textured, hopeful, inspiring, classroom-appropriate. Absolutely no text, no words, no letters, no numbers, and no realistic prize medals or logos anywhere in the image. **Alt:** A glowing spark of an idea radiating into a DNA helix, a growing sapling, an open book, orbiting atoms, and a sunrise, with diverse people reaching toward the light. ### ◆ nobel-before-after-penicillin.webp — optional support for *Before and After* (Challenge 4) **Save to:** `nobel-prize/assets/images/nobel-before-after-penicillin.webp` The activity uses a sourced table + text, so this image is **optional** (nice for print/teacher). Suggested size: landscape ~1600×700. > A clean, friendly educational illustration showing a left-to-right progression in three soft panels. Left panel: a simple round laboratory dish with a fuzzy bluish-green mold spot and a clear ring around it where bacteria are absent. Middle panel: laboratory glassware, flasks, and droplets suggesting purification and teamwork, with several diverse abstract scientist silhouettes working together. Right panel: a small glass vial and a healing figure resting comfortably, suggesting recovery. Warm, hopeful palette, textbook-clean style. Absolutely no text, no words, no letters, no numbers, and no brand logos anywhere in the image. **Alt:** Three-panel illustration: a mold-and-bacteria lab dish, scientists purifying it as a team, and a recovering patient with a medicine vial. *(If you generate it and want it shown, add an `image` block to the `before-after` activity in `nobel-prize/data/activities.js`.)* --- ## Día de los Muertos · `dia-de-los-muertos/assets/images/` ### ★ dia-map.webp — Map the Tradition (Challenge 2) **Save to:** `dia-de-los-muertos/assets/images/dia-map.webp` Schematic reference map; labels are added by the page text, so keep the image label-free. Suggested size: landscape ~1600×1200. > A simple, clean illustrative reference map centered on Mexico with a small portion of the southern United States visible to the north. Mark general location dots for Michoacán/Pátzcuaro (west), Oaxaca (south), Mexico City (center), and diaspora city dots near Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Chicago in the U.S. Use soft, warm colors and small marigold-flower icons as location markers. Flat vector style. NO text, labels, letters, or numbers of any kind in the image. No people. Keep it schematic and non-political. **Alt:** Simple map of Mexico and parts of the southern United States with marker dots at several regions. ### ★ dia-papel-picado.webp — Pattern and Design Hunt (Challenge 4) **Save to:** `dia-de-los-muertos/assets/images/dia-papel-picado.webp` Suggested size: landscape ~1600×1000. > A single rectangular papel picado banner shown flat against a plain contrasting background, made of thin bright-colored paper with an intricate cut-out design. The design is vertically symmetrical with a central flower-like medallion focal point, a decorative border, rows of repeated small diamonds and half-circles, and scalloped points along the bottom edge. Folk-art vector style, backlit so the cut holes read clearly. NO text, letters, numbers, or lettering of any kind. No skulls of specific real people and no copied sacred/personal imagery; use generic floral and geometric motifs only. No human figures. **Alt:** A single symmetrical papel picado banner with a floral central medallion, repeated shapes, and scalloped bottom edge. ### ◆ dia-feature.webp — hero / social card **Save to:** `dia-de-los-muertos/assets/images/dia-feature.webp` Suggested size: wide ~2100×900. > A warm, respectful illustration of a Día de los Muertos home altar (ofrenda) on a wooden table at dusk, arranged with lit candles, an arch and scattering of orange marigold (cempasúchil) flowers, small clay skulls, a round loaf of bread, cut-paper banners strung above, and framed portrait placeholders shown as blank frames. Painterly, colorful folk-art style, soft candlelight glow. NO text, letters, numbers, or writing anywhere in the image. Do not depict real people; any figures must be fully clothed. Do not copy any specific real family's photos or sacred/personal imagery; use generic decorative motifs only. **Alt:** Illustrated Día de los Muertos altar with candles, marigolds, cut-paper banners, bread, and blank photo frames at dusk. --- ## Checklist - [ ] space-week/assets/images/space-week-spot.webp ★ - [ ] space-week/assets/images/space-week-feature.webp ◆ - [ ] nobel-prize/assets/images/nobel-prize-feature.webp ◆ - [ ] nobel-prize/assets/images/nobel-before-after-penicillin.webp ◆ (optional) - [ ] dia-de-los-muertos/assets/images/dia-map.webp ★ - [ ] dia-de-los-muertos/assets/images/dia-papel-picado.webp ★ - [ ] dia-de-los-muertos/assets/images/dia-feature.webp ◆ Once the ◆ feature images exist, you can point each pack's `` at them.