AI Creator Mode - Seniors (Grades 6 to 8)

Ten parts building with AI properly: prompting, steering, testing, and knowing exactly where the line sits on schoolwork. Ends with a project they can explain.

Who it is for

Grades 6 to 8. Especially for students already using AI for homework who need real skill at directing it, plus the judgment to notice when it is making things up.

Includes a parent setup guide

The guide at the front gives the current minimum age for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot, including which need parental permission and which have no consent route at all. It names two browser tools that need no account, and covers the setup that keeps you inside every tool's terms.

The ten parts

• What It Actually Is Prediction explained, then finding the edges of what it knows
• Getting It To Do What You Want Lazy prompts versus specific ones, and giving it a role
• Making Pictures Running a proper experiment with one variable at a time
• Deciding What To Build Picking a project you would actually use
• When It Gets It Wrong Catching it inventing things, and testing whether its confidence tracks accuracy
• Better Instructions Five turns on one prompt, and building a reusable template
• Build It, Part One Breaking it into parts, with a build log
• Build It, Part Two Testing your own work properly and naming what you left broken
• Using It Honestly Six real scenarios, your own rule, then arguing against it
• Show What You Made Presenting the project and the failures, not just the polish

What makes this the harder edition

Students build independently, break their own work on purpose, and write down one thing they are choosing not to fix and why. The honesty section asks them to write the strongest argument against their own rule, which is the only way to know whether they can defend it.

The details

• 47 pages, instant PDF download
• Letter size, prints clearly in black and white
• A computer or tablet with internet, plus paper for sketching
• A build log they fill in as they go, plus a certificate