For teachers · grades 6 to 9
Teach AI in 12 lessons
A free course for lower-secondary classes. Each lesson fits one 45-minute period and comes with objectives, a step-by-step plan, an activity that works without devices or with ManuAI in the browser, a printable worksheet and a three-question exit ticket.
Kit
Every activity works with paper and pens. Where a lesson uses the browser, one projected screen is enough, and nobody needs an account.
Six strands, two lessons each
About the national framework
Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training has issued a framework for AI education content in schools. This course is an independent, free resource from ManuAI, organised around similar broad strands. It has not been reviewed or approved by the Ministry, so please check your school's and your department's current guidance before you use it, and adapt the lessons to your students.
For teachers · grades 6 to 9
Six strands, two lessons each
The lessons build on each other, but each one also stands alone. Teach them in order over a term, or pick the strand your class needs.
1What AI is
What counts as AI, and how a chatbot puts its answers together.
2Data
Where data comes from, and what happens when it is lopsided.
3How machines learn
Learning from examples and learning from rewards.
4Using AI tools
Asking AI clearly, and checking what it says.
5Ethics and safety
Privacy, fakes and scams.
6AI in society
Feeds that choose what we see, and the jobs of the future.
Print a lesson
The 12 lessons
Open a lesson and press Print. You get the plan for you, then the worksheet and the exit tickets on their own pages for the class.
What AI is
What counts as AI?
Students sort everyday machines into ones that follow fixed rules and ones that learned from examples, and build a working idea of what AI is.
What AI is
How a chatbot writes: guessing the next word
Through a class next-word game, students see that a chatbot builds its answers by guessing a likely next word, and that a likely answer can still be wrong.
Data
Data is everywhere
Students run a class survey, turn the answers into a tally table and a bar chart, and then list the data phones and apps collect and why.
Data
When the data is lopsided
Students study a drawn training set for a shoe detector that is mostly sneakers, find why it fails on sandals and school shoes, and fix the set.
How machines learn
Teach a machine by example
Groups write a rule from labelled leaf cards, test it on cards the teacher held back, count their accuracy and improve the rule.
How machines learn
Learning from rewards
A warmer or colder clapping game and a browser lab where students design a reward for a walking robot show that a machine learns exactly what you reward.
Using AI tools
Asking AI well
Groups use prompt cards to turn a lazy request into a four-part prompt (role, task, context, format), compare the results, and agree on honest ways to use AI for schoolwork.
Using AI tools
AI can be wrong: checking answers
Students judge AI claims in a true-or-fake game, then hunt for the one invented detail hidden in three confident answers and plan how they would check it.
Ethics and safety
Private by default: what not to share
Groups sort information cards into fine to type, think first and never, learning that what they type into apps and chatbots may be stored and seen by others.
Ethics and safety
Real or fake? Deepfakes, cloned voices and AI scams
Students try to tell human texts from AI ones, then study scam message cards to spot the pressure tricks, and plan what to do, including a family safe word.
AI in society
Who chooses what you see?
Students run an invented app's feed in a browser game, then act as a feed on paper and rank posts by different goals, and discuss filter bubbles, time spent and healthy habits.
AI in society
AI and the jobs of the future
Groups break familiar jobs into tasks and sort each task into AI can do, AI can help and people do best, then reflect on what they learned across the 12 lessons.
Before you start
- Many chatbots set a minimum age, often 13, and some ask for a parent's consent. Run chatbot demos yourself on one screen and follow your school's rules.
- ManuAI's lessons and games are free and need no sign-up, so students can open them on school computers or at home.
- Keep student work on paper or in your school's own systems. Students should not type personal details into any AI tool.
Also for your class
- Lesson kit: checking information with AIOne complete 45-minute lesson: teacher notes, slides to print or project, a worksheet and a 10-question quiz with answers.
- 50 prompt cardsThe whole prompt pack as printable cards with write-in blanks. Cut them out or keep them by the computer.
- Family printoutsFour one-page sheets: house rules for AI, a large-print cheat sheet for grandparents, a mistake hunt to do with a child, and a family password card.