What is generative AI?
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
Teach AI literacy as a practice, not a one-time assembly.
Splash curriculum is designed around short, repeatable classroom experiences in which students create something, inspect the AI, verify information, and reflect on what happened.
12 lessons for an initial AI literacy pathway.
Give AI instructions
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
Prompt experiment
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
Fact or fiction?
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
Where did that fact come from?
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
Catch the AI mistake
Students investigate unsupported claims and explain why polished language can still be wrong.
Why two prompts get different answers
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
AI and perspective
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
What information should stay private?
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
AI-generated images
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
Human vs. AI decisions
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
Build, inspect, verify
A creation-centered activity paired with inspection, verification, or reflection.
SAMPLE LESSON
Catch the AI Mistake
Grade: 6
Time: Approximately 30 minutes
Objective: Students identify supported, creative, and unsupported claims in an AI-generated project.
Activity
- Generate a short science story from approved materials.
- Open the Glass Box claim view.
- Find one supported claim.
- Find one creative statement.
- Investigate one unsupported or questionable statement.
- Write an exit reflection: “Why shouldn’t a polished AI answer automatically be trusted?”
Rubrics should measure AI literacy, not just artifact quality.
Source AwarenessIdentifies where information came from.
AI AwarenessSeparates generated content from source and student contributions.
VerificationChecks factual claims against evidence.
PromptingExplains how instruction changes altered output.
Critical ThinkingRecognizes error, uncertainty, missing context, or bias.