AI4K12 · CSTA Aligned
The AI curriculum your kid won’t outgrow.
55+ concepts. Eight knowledge areas. End to end.
55+
Concepts
8
Areas
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AI4K12 Big Ideas
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Every AI topic that matters.
01
AI Foundations
7 topics- What AI actually is
- Kinds of AI (narrow, general, generative)
- History of AI
- AI vs non-AI
- When AI is the right tool
- Confidence & uncertainty
- The AI lifecycle
02
How AI Learns
8 topics- Data as the teacher
- Supervised learning
- Unsupervised learning
- Reinforcement learning
- Fitting a line (regression)
- Overfitting & generalization
- Why labels matter
- Humans vs AI learning
03
The Machinery
8 topics- A single neuron
- Neural networks
- Deep vs wide
- Where knowledge lives (weights)
- CNNs
- Transformers
- Diffusion models
- Embeddings & vector space
04
AI That Sees
7 topics- Face detection & recognition
- Body pose (33 landmarks)
- Hand gestures (21 landmarks)
- Object detection
- Image segmentation
- OCR
- Image captioning & visual Q&A
05
AI That Listens & Speaks
5 topics- Sound classification
- Speech-to-text
- Text-to-speech
- Voice recognition
- Voice cloning
06
AI That Creates
6 topics- Image generation (diffusion)
- Text generation (LLMs)
- Prompt engineering
- Pattern continuation
- Drawing completion
- Style transfer
07
AI Ethics & Society
6 topics- Bias in AI
- Data privacy & safety
- Spotting AI-generated media
- AI and the future of work
- When NOT to use AI
- Responsible AI use
08
Computing Foundations
8 topics- Bits & binary
- Files & bytes
- Programs & OS
- GPUs & parallel compute
- Networks & the internet
- Servers & the cloud
- How a browser works
- Digitising the world
Vetted by the standards schools trust.
AI4K12 — Big 5
✓ All 5
- 1 Perception ✓
- 2 Representation ✓
- 3 Learning ✓
- 4 Natural Interaction ✓
- 5 Societal Impact ✓
CSTA K-12 — Concept Areas
✓ All 5
- Data & Analysis ✓
- Algorithms & Programming ✓
- Computing Systems ✓
- Networks & Internet ✓
- Impacts of Computing ✓
Beyond what standards prescribe.
Train real models
Not simulations — actual classifiers, gesture recognisers, chatbots trained in the browser.
Generative AI, mechanically
Watch noise become an image and attention become a sentence.
Embeddings & semantic search
The vector-space idea behind Google Photos, Pinterest, modern search.
Prompt engineering
A literacy skill. Treated as core, not a parlor trick.
Spotting AI media
Deepfakes, watermarks, telltales — the part safety lessons skip.
The hardware story
GPUs, parallel compute, why AI got fast. CS context standards still miss.