Explorer S15: Your AI Project

🎯 Today's goal: Your child creates a substantial project using multiple AI skills from across the programme — demonstrating what they have actually learned.

🔥 Warm Up — 2 minutes

Warm Up

Ask: "You have been doing this for 15 sessions now. What is the most useful thing you have learned? And what do you want to make today?"

"Today you build your biggest AI project yet. You decide what it is. You use everything you have learned."

🤖 The Activity — 15 minutes

Main Activity

The project options — your child chooses one, or combines elements:

📖 A guide
Write a complete guide to AI for a friend who has never used it — using everything you know

🔬 A research report
Research a topic you love using AI — and fact-check every single claim

🎭 A creative piece
Write a complete story, poem collection, or script — using role prompts and iterative refinement

🧩 A quiz deck
Build a 20-question quiz on a topic you are expert in — then test it on a family member

📋 Type this exactly

I am making [type of project] about [topic] for [audience]. I want it to be genuinely useful and interesting — not generic. Help me create it. I will tell you exactly what to change as we go. Start with a first draft and ask me what needs to improve.

Work through it together. Your child makes every major decision. Save or print the finished project.

🧩 The Twist — 5 minutes

Find the Flaw

At the end of the session, ask your child to assess their own project:

📋 Type this exactly

Here is something I created: [paste or describe the project]. Rate it honestly — what is strong, what is weak, and what would make it significantly better? Be specific, not just general.

Read the critique together. Ask: Do you agree with AI's assessment? What would you do differently if you had another hour? Self-assessment is one of the highest-level learning skills.

🛡️ Safety Moment

“All five rules — review”

Session 15 of 16 — one before graduation. Before the final session, review all five safety rules together. Ask your child to say each one. If they can — they have genuinely learned them. If they cannot — revisit the ones they missed.

👨‍👩‍👧 Parent: read this aloud. Ask your child to repeat it back.

🛠️

Project Builder Badge 🛠️

Built the biggest AI project yet — using skills from across the whole programme

✓ Ask your parent to mark this session complete

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Parent Notes — tap to expand

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What they learned

Synthesis and integration — applying multiple skills to a single, ambitious project. The self-assessment exercise develops metacognition.

Questions to ask

What is the part of your project you are most proud of?
What skill from the programme did you use most today?
If you had another two hours — what would you add or change?

What to watch for

The project session is where you see what your child has actually absorbed across 15 sessions. Let them take the lead — resist the urge to direct. Your job is to ask questions and type when needed.

Safety in context

The self-assessment moment can be revealing. Some children are much harder on themselves than AI is. Some are more lenient. Both are worth discussing.