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6 lessons
Grades 2–520 min20 slides

AI Is a Tool: Using AI Safely

This introductory classroom lesson gives elementary students a safe, developmentally appropriate first framework for understanding artificial intelligence. Students learn that AI is a computer tool, not a person; that AI can sound human without having feelings; that important information should be checked; that private information should be protected; and that younger students should use AI with a trusted adult involved. The lesson is designed to be completed without a student AI account or direct student interaction with a chatbot.

AI basicsSafetyDigital citizenship
Grades 2–525 min19 slides

People Come First: AI, Feelings, and Relationships

This lesson focuses on the social-emotional side of conversational AI. Students learn why a chatbot can feel friendly, why simulated empathy is different from a real relationship, and why important emotional, health, safety, and relationship problems belong with trusted people. The lesson does not shame students for being curious about conversational AI. Instead, it builds a simple human-first habit: use humans for human problems.

RelationshipsWellbeingHuman judgment
Grades 2–520 min18 slides

Stop. Close. Tell.: Staying Safe With AI

This safety lesson gives younger students a simple response routine for uncomfortable or unsafe AI interactions. Rather than asking children to investigate suspicious behavior, the course teaches them to stop interacting, close the tool, and tell a trusted adult when an AI experience becomes scary, secretive, inappropriate, threatening, or asks for private information.

SafetyTrusted adultsDigital citizenship
Grades 3–620 min18 slides

Private Means Private: AI and Personal Information

This lesson teaches students that a conversational interface can feel private without actually being a private conversation. Students learn to minimize personal information, protect the information of other people, and involve trusted adults before uploading photos, messages, recordings, school information, or other sensitive content to an AI tool.

PrivacyPersonal informationSafety
Grades 3–625 min20 slides

Your Brain Comes First: Using AI to Learn

This lesson teaches students that finishing an assignment is not the same as learning. Students practice distinguishing AI that supports thinking from AI that performs the thinking, and learn age-appropriate habits such as attempting first, asking for hints, requesting practice, and explaining what they learned afterward.

LearningAcademic integrityHuman thinking
Grades 4–625 min23 slides

Can You Believe It?: AI Mistakes, Images, and Deepfakes

This upper-elementary lesson introduces misinformation, AI-generated images, altered media, and deepfakes without relying on frightening examples. Students learn that AI can generate convincing false information and media, and practice a source-first verification routine before believing or sharing important claims.

Media literacyDeepfakesVerification

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