An AI Week or Project Block for Middle School
An AI Week or Project Block for Middle School
If your school runs a project week, an intensive block or a themed AI day, this bundle gives you enough grade 7–10 material to fill it: how AI works, prompt writing, checking AI-generated content, phishing and privacy, plus case studies and inquiry tasks. You can plan the week in an afternoon and finish with a student presentation instead of a test.
Plan the week with this bundle →For an AI project week in grades 7–10, AI Literacy & Cybersecurity Activities ($69.99) supplies inquiry tasks, case studies and discussions on how AI works, writing effective prompts, evaluating AI-generated content, phishing, personal information and privacy. The material suits long blocks where students work in teams and present findings. It is a digital download, so a coordinator can plan the week immediately after purchase.
The resources
AI Literacy & Cybersecurity Bundle, Grades 7–10
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AI Literacy & Cybersecurity Activities | Artificial Intelligence, Prompt Engineering & Online Safety | Grades 7–10
Computer Science Activities Bundle | Artificial Intelligence, Python Programming, Cybersecurity & Digital Literacy | Middle School Grades 7–10
How Artificial Intelligence Works – Computer Science Unit (Grades 6–9)
Working with AI Tools and Prompting – Computer Science Unit (Grades 6–9)
Teach-Life-Balance: The Complete Time-Saving Course for Teachers (incl. Planner, Guides & Templates)
The real problem
What goes wrong with a short intensive
Project weeks look easy on paper: one theme, long blocks, no bells. In practice they are hard to plan well. A single topic has to hold students' attention for several hours a day, and a whole week of the same format exhausts everyone. The material must be deep enough to support real inquiry but simple enough that students finish something worth showing by Friday. With AI as the theme, there is an extra risk. Without structure, the week turns into students playing with chatbots, which is fun for an hour and teaches very little. Students need a reason to use or study AI, a question to answer and a way to check their answers. Intensives are often staffed by teachers from several departments, so the material has to be clear enough that any adult can run a block. And the week needs a visible outcome, such as a presentation, a poster or a set of guidelines, so families and colleagues can see what students learned in a week without grades.
Why it fits
Why the bundle suits a concentrated week
Inquiry tasks and case studies stretch naturally across long blocks, and the topics build toward a final product.
- Inquiry tasks give teams an open question to investigate over a whole morning, not a ten-minute worksheet.
- Case studies let groups analyze a real situation and present their conclusions to the class.
- How-AI-works activities give the week a shared foundation on day one.
- Prompt and evaluation activities turn tool use into a structured experiment with findings to report.
- Phishing and privacy topics give a second strand so the week does not repeat one format.
- Clear printable materials let teachers from any department run a block.
Getting started
A suggested five-day project week
One possible shape for the week. Swap days or shorten blocks to match your school's schedule.
- Day 1: How AI actually worksTeach the how-AI-works activities to the whole group. End by forming teams and giving each one a guiding question for the week, such as when AI answers can be trusted.
- Day 2: Prompt experimentsTeams run the prompt-writing activities as experiments, recording which changes improved results. If your school allows tool access, use approved devices; otherwise work with printed examples.
- Day 3: Testing AI outputUse the activities on evaluating AI-generated content. Each team collects examples of errors or invented details and explains how they found them. Teams share their best examples before lunch.
- Day 4: Safety and privacySwitch strands with phishing, personal information and privacy case studies. Teams add a safety section to their findings, linking it to their guiding question. Keep the case studies short to leave writing time.
- Day 5: Present and publishTeams present their answers to the guiding question, ending with a short list of AI rules for students their age. Display the lists in the hallway.
What to buy
What to buy for a project week
For a single intensive, AI Literacy & Cybersecurity Activities at $69.99 covers the core topics and gives you both an AI strand and a safety strand. If your week is longer or you want a coding or encryption day, the Computer Science Activities Bundle at $119.99 adds units such as cryptography, recommendation algorithms and Python. For a one-day event rather than a week, one unit may be enough: How Artificial Intelligence Works or Working with AI Tools and Prompting, $24.99 each. If several teachers run the week, message Teach Lessons about team use first.
Honest limits
What a project week coordinator should know
The bundle does not include a ready-made project week schedule; the five-day plan above is a suggestion. It contains no AI tools, accounts, laptops or software, so any live experiments depend on what your school already provides and permits. You set the final product and how it is assessed. Check the content against your school's goals for the week. If several staff will teach from it, send Teach Lessons a short message before buying, since the standard licence covers your own teaching. If it does not suit your week, you can exchange it within 7 days for store credit of equal value.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Is the material aligned to any standards?
No alignment or endorsement is claimed by Teach Lessons for any standard, district or organization. The bundle is written for grades 7–10. For a project week, check the topics against what your school wants students to take away and adapt the guiding questions as needed.
Is there enough for a full week?
That depends on the length of your daily blocks. The inquiry tasks and case studies can expand to fill longer sessions. For a very long week, the Computer Science Activities Bundle adds more units to draw on. For a single day or two half-days, choose one AI topic and one safety topic and drop the rest.
Can it run with mixed-grade teams?
Yes. The bundle covers grades 7–10, and team-based inquiry lets older students take on more complex parts of a task. Preview the reading load if your teams include younger or struggling readers. Give each team member a clear role, such as recorder or presenter, so younger students stay involved in every block.
Do we need a computer for every student?
No. The product requires no devices or software. Prompt experiments can be run on printed examples, or on approved school devices if you have them and your school's rules allow it. Pairs sharing one approved device can also work if you want a short live experiment during the prompt day.
What should the final product be?
The product does not prescribe one. Presentations, posters or a class set of AI rules work well because they draw on the case studies and evaluation tasks. Choose something families can see at the end of the week. A hallway display of team findings also gives families and other classes a look at what students learned during the week.
Can several teachers share one purchase for the week?
Use by a team is possible after a short message to Teach Lessons. Send it before the week so every teacher running a block is covered. Include the number of teachers and classes involved, so the reply covers everyone who will run a block during the week.
Make the AI week about thinking, not just clicking
See the full topic list on the product page and sketch your five days around it.
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