Read this first. The AI lab is optional. Every lesson works without it. This website has no AI chat, and nothing here runs or connects to an AI company’s service. You use ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini on their own sites, so their own rules apply, and a grown-up is in charge.
What you will do
Each lesson has one short test. You will teach an AI with examples, quiz it, look for unfairness, ask it about things that do not exist, and judge what it says. You always check the answer. That is the lesson: AI is useful and it is sometimes wrong.
Who can use which tool
Taken from each company’s own pages on 17 October 2026. These rules change, so check the current ones.
| Tool | Under 13 | Ages 13 and over |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Not meant for children under 13. If it is used in education with under-13s, an adult must do the actual interaction. | Ages 13 to 18 need a parent’s or guardian’s consent before using it. |
| Claude | Claude.ai is for adults: the terms say you must be at least 18 (or the local age of consent, if higher). | Under-18s should not have their own account. A grown-up can run the test on their own account while the young person watches and decides. |
| Gemini | Google lets parents allow Gemini for under-13s through Family Link, but its help page says this is not available for supervised accounts in the UK, the EEA or Switzerland. | Teens can use Gemini through a Google account that is allowed for their age. Check Google’s current rules. |
Sources: OpenAI: Is ChatGPT safe for all ages?; Anthropic: Consumer Terms of Service (section 2, minimum age); Google: Gemini Apps for children under 13 (Family Link).
How it works
- Under 13: a grown-up at the keyboard. The grown-up uses their own account, types the prompts and reads the answers. The child decides what to look for, checks the answers and writes the results down. The child never uses the chatbot directly.
- Ages 13 and over: with a parent’s knowledge. Use only a tool whose own rules allow your age, with a parent’s or guardian’s consent where it is required. Never make an account with a false age.
- At school: the teacher runs it. Use only a tool your school has approved, on a school device or the teacher’s own device, and follow your school’s policy.
- Pick one tool. You only need one. If a grown-up is happy to, try the same prompt in a second tool and compare.
Seven rules for every test
- Use only the prompts on the page. You can change the made-up parts (the silly book title, the list of animals). Never add a name, school, address, photo, password or anything about a friend or family member.
- Text only. No photos, no pictures of people, no voice, no uploading files.
- Check the privacy settings first. Ask the grown-up to look for a private or temporary chat option, and for a setting that stops chats being used to improve the AI. Some tools keep chat history. Delete the chat afterwards.
- The grown-up reads each answer first, if they can. If anything is scary, rude or upsetting, stop. Do not try again. Tell the grown-up.
- Answers are guesses. The same prompt can give a different answer each time. Write down what happened, not what you expected. A wrong answer is a good result.
- It is not a person. Do not ask it for advice about feelings, friends, health or safety. Talk to a real person you trust.
- Do not let it do the lesson for you. The test is to look at the AI, not to copy from it. If it helped with any of your work, say so.
If something goes wrong
Stop straight away and tell a grown-up if the AI says something that upsets you, asks you for personal information, or says something that does not seem right for a child. You will not be in trouble.
Record sheet
Copy this onto paper for every test. Write what happened, not what you expected.
| Which tool did you use? | Which prompt? | What did it say (a few words)? | What did you check it against? | Was it right, wrong or not sure? | What surprised you? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All 24 tests
A1 Smart or Not? (ages 5 to 7)
- Ask the machine about itself (10 minutes)
- Find the smart helpers (10 minutes)
- Teach it with examples (10 minutes)
- Be the checker (15 minutes)
- Ask what to keep private (10 minutes)
- Compare rules with your poster (10 minutes)
A2 Teach a Machine (ages 7 to 9)
- Ask it to explain AI (15 minutes)
- More examples, better answers? (20 minutes)
- A picture sorter in words (25 minutes)
- Quiz the machine (30 minutes)
- Who is missing? (20 minutes)
- Find holes in your machine (20 minutes)
A3 How Machines Learn (ages 9 to 11)
- Spam test: rules or learning? (25 minutes)
- Seen and unseen examples (25 minutes)
- Build a classifier with an AI (35 minutes)
- Which mistakes did it make? (30 minutes)
- Invent a thing and see (30 minutes)
- Hints, not answers (30 minutes)
A4 AI in Practice (ages 11 to 14)
- Ask it to explain your model (20 minutes)
- Predict like a model (25 minutes)
- Is this over-fitting? (25 minutes)
- A name-swap audit (30 minutes)
- The same question three times (30 minutes)
- Argue both sides, then judge (35 minutes)
This site does not run, link to a child’s account on, or recommend any of these tools. Each one is run by its own company under its own terms, and those terms can change. Every lesson works without them. This guide is not legal advice, and schools and parents should make their own decision.