Exploring AI with secondary students

Lessons and activities to help you explore the fast-moving world of AI with your secondary students

Tes Resources Team

AI symbol in computer circuit board demonstrating AI Artificial Intelligence resources for secondary students

Resources for secondary students to learn about and discuss Artificial Intelligence technology

With AI technology progressing rapidly and becoming more commonplace in our everyday lives, teaching students about AI within computing, as well as discussing how it impacts future jobs and careers and poses both exciting opportunities as well as challenges and ethical implications, becomes ever more important.

With this in mind, we have gathered together a selection of resources from the Tes community that will help you get to grips with some of the fundamentals of AI, including generative AI, and develop digitally literate students, with an awareness of how AI works and how it can be used, as well as how it can impact their online safety.
 

Understanding and discussing AI

A selection of computing lessons to develop secondary students' understanding of how AI works and the different forms it takes, as well as activities to discuss the ethical implications of AI technology, and how it could impact everything from the arts to sustainability.

Human vs Artificial Intelligence Lesson GCSE
CodeAvengers

Human vs Artificial Intelligence Lesson GCSE

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Students learn about the four lobes of the brain and how each contributes to human intelligence. They explore AI through an Input -Process-Output lens. Activities include watching a video, colouring in diagram, a 14 slide presentation and a research task. The research focuses on what personal voice...
Critical thinking skills: AI and sustainability
Economist_Foundation

Critical thinking skills: AI and sustainability

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**What s more important: AI s potential for progress? Or protecting the planet?** While AI is helping people find solutions to climate change, it s also contributing to the problem. By 2030, the amount of CO2 produced by AI data centres will equate to roughly 40% of the annual emissions of ...

 

AI deepfake technology and online safety

Lesson presentations and activities to raise students' awareness of how deepfake technology can be used and how to protect themselves online.

 

AI careers and future jobs

Careers lessons, activities and video resources to discuss how careers and students' potential future jobs could be changing through the continued development of AI technology.