Introduce your students to the creative and ethical world of AI-generated images with this hands-on, thought-provoking unit. Perfect for upper elementary through middle school, this resource teaches students how Artificial Intelligence creates images, how to write strong prompts, and how to think critically about the role of AI in digital creativity. Ideal for cross-curricular integration in digital technologies, literacy, art, or inquiry programs.
What Is It?
AI Picture Studio is a structured, ready-to-use unit that helps students understand how AI turns text into images and empowers them to explore, question, and create. Through guided lessons, ethical discussions, and creative prompt-writing tasks, students gain both technical and critical literacy skills in a future-focused context.
Three Core Sections
1. Teacher Guide & Ethics Resources
Practical tips, safety guidance, and structured talking points to support ethical AI use and digital responsibility.
2. AI Image Foundations Lessons
Short, explicit lessons introduce:
- How AI generates images from text
- How to write strong, clear prompts
- Why ethical and fair use matters
Each lesson includes slides, discussion questions, and a related activity.
3. Activities and Challenges - AI image generation
Students apply what they’ve learned through open-ended, creative visual literacy tasks designed to boost prompt-writing, imagination, and critical thinking. These activities are highly engaging!
Student Activities Include:
- Design an AI School or Treehouse – Use layered prompts to imagine a custom-built environment
- Genre Swaps – Transform a single prompt across fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and more
- Prompt to Product – Generate a product image and write an ad or product description
KEY FEATURES
- Teacher Guide: Practical guidance for introducing AI image generation, managing ethical conversations, and implementing activities safely and effectively in any classroom.
- Teacher Slides: Editable slides (PowerPoint + PDF) to introduce key concepts, model thinking, and guide classroom discussions on AI and creativity.
- Ethics & Responsibility: Includes resources and discussion points that promote safe, fair, and responsible use of AI-generated images.
- Creative Exploration Tasks: Activities exploring mood, genre, and layered prompting to help students expand their descriptive and imaginative skills.
- Flexible Use: Suitable for whole-class lessons, small-group work, literacy rotations, or independent inquiry projects.
- Designed for Years 3 and UP: Adaptable for upper elementary through lower secondary students, with tasks open-ended enough for varied ability levels.
Why Use This Resource?
AI Picture Studio empowers students to explore artificial intelligence as a creative tool—not just a topic to learn about, but one to interact with, question, and use thoughtfully. By combining ethical reflection with imaginative tasks, this resource helps students develop essential skills in visual literacy, critical thinking, and prompt writing, all while fostering a safe, responsible understanding of how AI works.
Whether you're new to AI in the classroom or looking to take your digital technology lessons further, this unit offers everything you need to deliver meaningful, engaging instruction—no tech expertise required.
Download AI Picture Studio today and give your students the tools to create, reflect, and thrive in a world shaped by artificial intelligence.