🔬 Research with AI
Use AI to research a topic — then fact-check every claim.
🔥 Warm Up — 2 minutes
If you wanted to research something for school — where would you normally look? Talk about it.
"Today we research using AI — with one rule: every single fact it tells us, we check. How many survive?"
🤖 The Activity — 15 minutes
Child picks a researchable topic — animal, historical event, or scientific concept.
Print or copy this list. You now have claims to verify.
The verification process: for each fact — how would we check this? Look it up. Mark: ✅ confirmed · ❌ wrong · 🤔 cannot verify.
Compare this to what you found. Was AI honest about its own weaknesses?
🧩 The Twist — 5 minutes
AI either admits it does not know or makes up a plausible-sounding number. Ask: how would anyone actually know this? Where does AI get its numbers from?
Today made this measurable. Keep the marked-up fact sheet — it is evidence, in your child's handwriting, that this rule matters.
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Ran a full AI research session — and verified every single claim
Parent Notes — tap to expand
▼Research methodology — AI as a starting point, not a conclusion.
- How many of AI's facts survived the fact-check?
- What is the best strategy for checking a fact quickly?
- If someone submitted this AI summary without checking — what could go wrong?
Some children want to skip verification. Do not. The tedium of checking is part of the lesson.
Connects to online safety broadly: evaluating sources, not accepting information at face value.