AI Explorers K-2
What is AI? Nova helps young explorers find out, with read-aloud lessons, tap-to-answer checks and hands-on labs.
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- Grade
- Kindergarten to Grade 2
- Length
- 12 weeks
- Pace
- 6 short lessons a week, about 15 minutes each
- Price
- Free, every week
About this course
AI Explorers K-2 is a 12-week AI literacy course for kindergarten to grade 2, guided by Nova, the crew's AI companion drone. Short daily lessons read aloud with word highlighting, tap-to-answer checks, a hands-on Explorer Lab with paper and toys, a daily sight word, and a Saturday Explorer Quest for the whole family. Kids learn how computers sense, sort, spot patterns and learn from examples, why AI can be wrong, and how to keep private things private. Everything is unplugged: no child ever talks to a real AI tool. 100% free, start to finish.
Kids will
- Explain that AI is a tool people build, not a person
- Name the sensors a computer uses to see and hear
- Sort things by features and spot patterns to make a guess
- Show how examples help a computer learn, and why more kinds of examples help
- Know that AI can be wrong and check with a grown-up
- Keep private information private
The 12 weeks
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Week 1
Meet Nova
AI is a tool people build
CSTA 1A-IC-16
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Week 2
Computer Senses
Cameras see, microphones hear
CSTA 1A-CS-02
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Week 3
Pictures Are Tiny Dots
Pixels make pictures
CSTA 1A-DA-05
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Week 4
Sort It Out
Features, rules and models
CSTA 1A-DA-07
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Week 5
Spot the Pattern
Patterns help us guess
CSTA 1A-DA-07
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Week 6
Learn From Examples
Training data
CSTA 1A-DA-07
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Week 7
More Examples, Better Guesses
Many kinds of examples help
CSTA 1A-DA-07
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Week 8
Steps or Examples?
Two ways to teach a computer
CSTA 1A-AP-08
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Week 9
Talking Machines
Machines that use words
CSTA 1A-CS-02
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Week 10
Oops, AI Can Be Wrong
Sure is not the same as right
CSTA 1A-IC-17
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Week 11
Keep It Private
Some things are just for you
CSTA 1A-NI-04
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Week 12
Helpers for Everyone
Design a fair helper and celebrate
CSTA 1A-IC-16
Standards practiced. CSTA: 1A-AP-08, 1A-CS-02, 1A-DA-05, 1A-DA-07, 1A-IC-16, 1A-IC-17, 1A-NI-04. Each week has short lessons Monday to Friday, with an unplugged Explorer Lab on Wednesday and a family Explorer Quest on Saturday.
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