Future Builders AI Lab™ · Curriculum
A grade-banded AI literacy curriculum built for real classrooms.
Eight sessions per grade band, with clear objectives, prepared activities, and a finished student project. Designed so an educator without a technical background can teach it confidently.
Proposed pilot curriculum
Grades 3–12
Three age-appropriate tracks
8 sessions
Per grade band, sequenced
45–90 min
Session length scales by age
20–30 students
Recommended cohort size
Grade tracks
Same principles. Different depth at every age.
Makers & Questioners
Grades 6–8 · Ages 11–14Students move from using AI to evaluating it — examining bias, sourcing, and accuracy while building a project that solves a problem in their own community.
Learning objectives
- Describe how models are trained and where bias enters
- Evaluate an AI answer for accuracy, source, and tone
- Use structured prompting to complete a multi-step task
- Apply an academic-integrity standard to their own work
- Build and defend a community-focused project
Lesson plans
Objective: Understand training data, patterns, and prediction in plain language.
Activities
- • Prediction game
- • Training-data card sort
Student deliverable: Concept map
Skills alignment
What the curriculum reinforces
Every session is written to strengthen skills schools already teach, so the program supports existing instruction rather than competing with it.
- Digital citizenship and online safety practices
- Information literacy, sourcing, and evidence evaluation
- Problem definition, iteration, and design thinking
- Written and oral communication of technical ideas
- Collaboration, peer critique, and revision
- Career awareness and pathway exploration
How educators run it
- 1Choose the grade band that matches your students.
- 2Review the facilitator guide and send the family letter home.
- 3Run the eight sessions weekly, or condense into a two-week intensive.
- 4Use the rubric to evaluate the final project and reflection.
- 5Collect the post-program survey and share results with your school.
Curriculum content is proposed pilot material. Outcomes described are program design targets, not reported results.
Free for educators
The Educator Toolkit
Five ready-to-print documents that let a teacher, librarian, counselor, or youth program leader run the full eight-session program. Free, no obligation to run the full pilot.
- PDF · 3 pages
Facilitator Guide
- PDF · 9 pages
Student Workbook Pages
- PDF · 2 pages
Family Letter
- PDF · 2 pages
Project Rubric
- PDF · 5 pages
Pre and Post Surveys
Want to run the full pilot at your school?
The Future Builders AI Lab™ pilot includes facilitation support, mentor matching, and a student showcase.