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3rd Grade AI: Creative AI Explorer

Write clear prompts, make stories and pictures with AI, and check what it gets wrong.

Work through the lessons in order. By the end, you can say that generative AI makes new text, pictures, or sounds, and compare a person's work and an AI's work. You can pick the clearer prompt, add context, and change a prompt to get a better answer. You can plan a story, ask AI for ideas, and write the story in your own words. You can write a prompt for a picture, give credit, find a fact that AI made up, and share a storybook that shows how AI helped.

How to use these lessons

  • Start at the lesson marked Do this. Go on when you can do the line under the title by yourself.
  • Play the Games first. Then take the Quizzes. Eight of ten correct passes. The Worksheets are on paper. The answers are at the bottom.
  • A short turn is enough. If a lesson is hard, do the one before it again.
  • Use AI tools only with a teacher or a parent, on a site made for your age. Keep your story ideas in a notebook. Never type your name, your address, or your school into an AI tool.

Each lesson has games, quizzes, and worksheets.

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Discover generative AI

  1. 1What is generative AISay that generative AI makes new text, pictures, or sounds.
    • See AI write a poem, draw a picture, and make a tune.
    • Say how generative AI is different from a search.
    • Say that it learned from things people made.
  2. 2AI textName one thing AI can write.
    • Read a story, a list, and a letter that AI wrote.
    • Say what each one is for.
    • Find a sentence that sounds odd.
  3. 3AI picturesSay how AI makes a picture from words.
    • Match words to the picture they made.
    • Say which words changed the picture.
    • Spot a strange detail, like an extra finger.
  4. 4AI sounds and musicSay that AI can make voices and music.
    • Listen to a song a person made and one AI made.
    • Say that AI can copy a voice.
    • Say why you should ask before you copy someone's voice.
  5. 5Human or AICompare a person's work and an AI's work.
    • Look at two drawings of the same idea.
    • Say what each one does well.
    • Say why your own ideas still matter.

Learning to prompt

  1. 6What is a promptSay that a prompt is what you ask AI to do.
    • Find the prompt and the answer in an example.
    • Say that the answer depends on the prompt.
    • Write your first prompt.
  2. 7Be clearPick the clearer prompt.
    • Compare “Write about a dog” and “Write three sentences about a puppy at the beach.”
    • Say what makes a prompt clear.
    • Make a fuzzy prompt clear.
  3. 8Add contextAdd who, where, and when to a prompt.
    • Add a character, a place, and a time.
    • Say who the answer is for.
    • Compare the answer before and after.
  4. 9Make it betterChange a prompt to get a better answer.
    • Say what is wrong with an answer.
    • Change one part of the prompt.
    • Check if the new answer is better.
  5. 10Prompt challengeGet the answer you want in three tries or fewer.
    • Read the goal for the challenge.
    • Write and improve your prompt.
    • Count your tries.

AI storytelling

  1. 11Story partsName the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
    • Find the problem in a story.
    • Find how the problem is solved.
    • Put story parts in order.
  2. 12CharactersDescribe a character for a story.
    • Say how your character looks.
    • Say what your character wants.
    • Give your character one problem.
  3. 13Ideas from AIAsk AI for ideas and pick the one you like.
    • Ask for five ideas for a story problem.
    • Pick one and say why.
    • Change the idea to make it yours.
  4. 14Your own wordsWrite the story in your own words.
    • Write the beginning by yourself.
    • Use AI only to get unstuck.
    • Mark the parts AI helped with.
  5. 15Share a storyRead your short story to others.
    • Read your story out loud.
    • Listen to a friend's story.
    • Say one thing you liked.

AI art and design

  1. 16Describe a pictureDescribe a picture with color, size, and place.
    • Describe a picture to a friend who cannot see it.
    • Use words for color, size, and place.
    • Compare their drawing to the picture.
  2. 17Picture promptsWrite a prompt for a picture.
    • Name what is in the picture.
    • Say where things go.
    • Add the colors you want.
  3. 18StyleName a style, like cartoon or watercolor.
    • Compare cartoon, watercolor, and crayon styles.
    • Add a style to a prompt.
    • Pick a style for your book.
  4. 19Match the storyMake a picture that fits a page of your story.
    • Read one page of your story.
    • Write a picture prompt for that page.
    • Check that the picture matches the words.
  5. 20Give creditSay which parts you made and which AI made.
    • Make a list of who made each part.
    • Say why giving credit is fair.
    • Add a credit line to your work.

Checking AI results

  1. 21AI can be wrongSay that AI can sound sure and still be wrong.
    • Read an AI answer that sounds sure.
    • Find the mistake in it.
    • Say why sounding sure is not the same as being right.
  2. 22Made-up factsFind a fact that AI made up.
    • Read three AI facts about animals.
    • Find the one that is made up.
    • Say how you found it.
  3. 23Check a sourceCheck an AI fact in a book or a trusted site.
    • Name trusted places to check facts.
    • Look up one AI fact.
    • Mark it as true or false.
  4. 24Spot the mistakeFind the mistake in an AI picture.
    • Look for extra legs, odd hands, and wrong words.
    • Circle each mistake.
    • Change the prompt to fix it.
  5. 25Fact-checkSort AI facts into true, false, and not sure.
    • Read ten AI facts.
    • Sort each one into true, false, or not sure.
    • Check the not-sure ones.

Creative project studio

  1. 26Plan your bookPlan the pages of a storybook.
    • Pick your character and problem.
    • Plan six pages on paper.
    • Write one line for each page.
  2. 27Write the pagesWrite the words for each page.
    • Write each page in your own words.
    • Ask AI for a word when you are stuck.
    • Read it out loud to check it.
  3. 28Make the picturesMake or draw a picture for each page.
    • Use the same style on every page.
    • Check each picture matches its page.
    • Draw a page yourself if the AI picture is wrong.
  4. 29ReviseChange one page to make it better.
    • Ask a friend for one idea.
    • Pick the page that needs work.
    • Change the words or the picture.
  5. 30My AI storybookShare a storybook and say how AI helped.
    • Put the pages together into a book.
    • Add a credit page.
    • Share your book with others.