Curriculum Reference
Curated AI literacy lessons from primary through cross-stage programs, plus ready-to-use tool guides for teachers, students, and institutions.
Primary2 lessons
AI in Everyday Life
Introduce students to common AI applications that appear in daily life.
📚 Lesson Content
Use images, videos, and guided questions to help students discover where AI shows up—voice assistants, recommended videos, autonomous driving, and more. Teachers prompt discussion around what AI is and which behaviours resemble human thinking.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Identify AI applications in everyday life.
- •Understand that AI is an intelligent system designed by humans.
- •Spark curiosity about exploring AI.
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AI Helps Me Learn
Experience how AI supports learning.
📚 Lesson Content
Students try AI drawing or language-learning tools such as QuillBot or Lingostar to experience the benefits and limits of AI-assisted learning. Teachers lead reflection on when AI is helpful and when human judgement is still needed.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Experience how AI tools can support learning tasks.
- •Recognise that AI cannot replace human thinking.
- •Develop a balanced mindset toward using AI.
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Middle School2 lessons
How Machines Learn
Investigate the basics of machine learning.
📚 Lesson Content
Teachers demonstrate how to train an AI model to recognise animal images. Students use Teachable Machine to train their own models and understand how AI learns from data.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Understand the concept of machine learning.
- •Recognise the role of data in AI systems.
- •Cultivate data awareness and critical thinking.
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AI and Fairness
Discuss fairness issues in AI decision-making.
📚 Lesson Content
Students examine cases of bias in AI hiring algorithms and debate whether AI is always objective. They explore how to improve fairness while teachers summarise algorithmic bias and its social impact.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Understand that AI systems can be biased.
- •Explore the relationship between data and fairness.
- •Build critical AI literacy.
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High School4 lessons
Train a Mini AI
Experience the process of building an AI model.
📚 Lesson Content
Students use Python or visual tools such as Scratch with ML extensions to train simple classifiers, learning about inputs, outputs, features, and model evaluation.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Understand the core steps of AI development.
- •Gain hands-on experience with AI programming.
- •Strengthen problem-solving and creativity skills.
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AI Bias and Responsibility
Explore AI ethics, privacy, and social responsibility.
📚 Lesson Content
Teachers present news cases such as facial recognition controversies to analyse AI's impact on privacy and social justice. Students debate how AI should be regulated.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Understand the importance of AI ethics and privacy.
- •Consider AI's impact from multiple perspectives.
- •Strengthen a sense of social responsibility.
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Create with AI
Explore how AI supports art, writing, and design.
📚 Lesson Content
Students use AI to generate music, images, or text to produce creative artefacts. Teachers guide them to evaluate originality and artistic value in AI-generated work.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Understand AI's role in creative domains.
- •Use AI appropriately in creative work.
- •Reflect on the relationship between AI and human creativity.
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AI and Future Careers
Analyse how AI reshapes jobs and career paths.
📚 Lesson Content
Teachers showcase AI use cases across industries. Student teams research how a specific profession is evolving because of AI and present their findings.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Recognise AI's impact on the future of work.
- •Develop a mindset for lifelong learning.
- •Plan future skill-development pathways.
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Cross-Stage2 lessons
Using AI Responsibly
An AI ethics survey lesson for all students.
📚 Lesson Content
Students role-play scenarios to feel the consequences of AI misuse—misinformation, privacy leaks, and more. Teachers guide the class in drafting a "school AI use charter".
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Understand the risks of AI misuse.
- •Build responsible habits for using AI.
- •Strengthen digital citizenship.
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My AI Literacy Journey
Summarise and reflect on the entire AI learning journey.
📚 Lesson Content
Students compile the AI knowledge and skills they have learned, create a digital portfolio or showcase, and write reflection reports on their growth.
🎯 Learning Objectives
- •Review personal AI learning achievements.
- •Articulate ideas about the future of AI.
- •Develop self-evaluation and reflective abilities.
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AI Tool Reference
Support educators from planning to assessment with practical AI workflows.
| Focus Area | Scenario | How to Use / Outcomes | Tool Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
What is AI | AI literacy kickoff (concepts and cases) | Use AI to generate introductory stories, metaphors, and visuals so learners grasp core concepts and boundaries. | ChatGPTPerplexityCanva AI |
How AI Works | Teacher PD (principles and methods) | Showcase data, models, training, and inference through visualisations or code demos to demystify prompting and limitations. | GitHub CopilotGoogle ColabKaggle |
How AI Works | Lesson prep and resource discovery | Leverage AI to search and summarise standards, learner profiles, and materials for rapid unit and lesson planning. | PerplexityNotebookLMBing Copilot |
How to Use AI | Lesson and material creation | Generate lesson plans, practice sets, readings, differentiated tasks, and multimedia slides. | MagicSchoolDiffitCuripod |
How to Use AI | Classroom management and engagement | Automate live questioning, polls, group tasks, and feedback to energise class sessions. | ClassPointNearpodPear Deck |
How to Use AI | Home–school communication | Auto-draft weekly reports, comments, and parent updates with tailored learning insights. | RemindClassDojoCanva Docs AI |
How to Use AI | Educational research and writing | Support literature reviews, outline building, methodology selection, and reproducible analysis. | ElicitScite AssistantConnected Papers |
How to Evaluate AI | Assessment and feedback | Create formative and summative assessments, rubrics, personalised feedback, and learning diagnostics. | FormativeWritableQuizizz |
How to Evaluate AI | Grading assignments and exams | Assist with objective and subjective grading, originality checks, and scoring calibration. | GradescopeTurnitinCopyleaks |
How AI Affects Society | Curriculum extensions: ethics and society | Facilitate discussions and projects on fairness, privacy, employment, and sustainability. | UNESCO 指南OECD 框架TeachAI |
AI Tool Reference
Empower students to learn, collaborate, and create with AI responsibly.
| Focus Area | Scenario | How to Use / Outcomes | Tool Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
What is AI | AI literacy overview | Use AI to craft plain-language explanations, analogies, and visuals to understand scope and risks. | ClaudeGeminiChatGPT |
How AI Works | Learning resources: models and data | Train small models with visual tools to grasp features, overfitting, prompting, and alignment. | Teachable MachineRunwayKaggle Notebooks |
How to Use AI | Learning support: AI tutoring | Offer conversational Q&A, personalised explanations, worked examples, and error analysis. | KhanmigoChatGPTSocratic |
How to Use AI | Knowledge gathering: search and synthesis | Search trusted sources, summarise long texts, compare viewpoints, and export citations. | PerplexityElicitConsensus |
How to Use AI | Note-taking and revision | Structure class notes, generate outlines and flashcards, and schedule spaced review. | Quizlet AIRemNote AINotion AI |
How to Use AI | Assignments and writing (academic integrity) | Support brainstorming, revision, annotation, and citation checking while maintaining integrity. | GrammarlyWordtuneZotero + Scite |
How to Use AI | Adaptive practice | Recommend questions, provide instant feedback, and auto-build error logs based on learner profiles. | Century TechALEKSDreamBox |
How to Use AI | Academic and career planning | Generate learning pathways aligned with interests, polish resumes, and rehearse interviews. | CareerVillage CoachLinkedIn Resume AssistantGoogle Interview Warmup |
How to Use AI | Collaboration and peer learning | Use AI for group coordination, meeting notes, task boards, and co-created documents. | Notion AISlack GPTGoogle Docs Gemini |
How to Evaluate AI | Feedback and self-check | Generate quizzes, provide error explanations, compare answers, and verify reliability. | WisdoliaQuizlet Test ModeWolfram Alpha |
How AI Affects Society | Mental health and emotional support | Access non-clinical emotional support, self-help resources, and guidance on when to seek professionals. | WysaWoebotYouper |
How to Create with AI | Creative expression and projects | Use AI to produce images, videos, music, and presentations for project-based learning outputs. | MidJourneyRunwaySuno |
AI Tool Reference
Strategic AI adoption for schools and education organizations.
| Focus Area | Scenario | How to Use / Outcomes | Tool Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
What is AI | AI literacy program design | Set school-wide AI literacy goals and curriculum frameworks, aligning internal and external resources. | MIT RAISEAI4K12UNESCO 教材 |
How AI Works | School-based courses and AI labs | Build AI labs or electives with open-source models and visual platforms for instruction. | Hugging FaceNVIDIA DLIGoogle Teachable Machine |
How AI Works | IT and data security | Securely deploy or connect to foundation models on private infrastructure with masking and access control. | Azure OpenAIGoogle Vertex AIMicrosoft Presidio |
How to Use AI | Education analytics and decision-making | Build learning analytics dashboards, cohort profiles, and intervention evaluations to inform governance. | Civitas LearningTableau + EinsteinPower BI Copilot |
How to Use AI | Learner tracking and risk alerts | Run early-warning models to flag at-risk students and coordinate follow-up interventions. | EAB NavigateCivitas IllumePanorama Education |
How to Use AI | Admissions and outreach | Deploy AI for admissions Q&A, visitor routing, lead scoring, and multilingual content generation. | Salesforce Education Cloud (Einstein)DriftIntercom |
How to Use AI | Campus operations and automation | Automate memos, meeting notes, workflows, and knowledge-base search with AI assistants. | Microsoft Copilot for M365ServiceNow AIGoogle Workspace Gemini |
How to Evaluate AI | Quality assurance and compliance | Run academic integrity checks, detect AI traces, audit bias, and assess impact. | TurnitinCopyleaksIBM AIF360 |
How AI Affects Society | Policy and responsible AI strategy | Craft AI governance policies, data ethics guidelines, and usage norms for teachers and students. | OECD 指南UNESCO AI in EducationJisc AI Guidance |
How to Create with AI | Research and innovation | Accelerate research writing, coding assistance, and multimodal experiments to incubate cross-disciplinary AI projects. | OpenAI APIHugging FaceGoogle Colab |