Facilitator-led AI learning · Ages 10–13
AI Explorersfor curious young minds.
Help pupils discover what AI is, question what it tells them, create with purpose and make safe, fair and kind digital choices.
Learning outcomes
Stay curious and stay safe.
The course keeps technical ideas simple and gives pupils a repeatable way to think, check, create and ask for help.
- 01
Explain AI as pattern-finding technology using everyday examples.
- 02
Pause, question and check AI-generated claims, images and advice.
- 03
Write clear instructions without sharing personal information.
- 04
Use AI as a creative helper while keeping human thinking visible.
- 05
Apply the SAFE rules for privacy, fairness, adult support and verification.
- 06
Create a practical classroom AI Explorer Charter.
Four guided missions
Discover. Question. Create. Protect.
Every mission has a short explanation, a group classroom activity and a simple check of what pupils learned.
Mission 01Discover AI around us+
- Meet the pattern spotter
- AI safari: find it in daily life
- Discovery knowledge check
Mission 02Question what AI tells us+
- AI can be confidently wrong
- Truth detective lab
- Truth detective knowledge check
Mission 03Create with purpose+
- Build a clear instruction
- Creative mission lab
- Creative-use knowledge check
Mission 04Use AI safely, fairly and kindly+
- The SAFE rules
- Capstone: our AI Explorer Charter
- Final Explorer challenge
Final class project
Build the AI Explorer Charter together.
Pupils create simple classroom actions for privacy, fact-checking, fairness, saying when AI helped and asking for help when something feels unsafe.
Facilitator guidance
Designed for safe classroom participation.
Before the session
- Review the school's safety, privacy and acceptable-use rules
- Use fictional examples and teacher-approved sources
- Choose age-appropriate, approved tools only
- Prepare an offline activity for every live demonstration
During the session
- A responsible adult operates any live AI tool
- No pupil needs an individual AI account
- Never enter names, faces, addresses or private school data
- Stop and follow safeguarding procedures if harmful content appears
AI safari map
Find AI in an ordinary day and ask who should check it.
Truth detective lab
Classify claims by the quality of their evidence.
Creative helper
Design a safe fictional AI assistant and review its output.
Class charter
Agree the actions that make AI use safe, honest and fair.
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