Using AI Responsibly
Academic Integrity & AI Ethics Scenarios · Grades 7-12
- Grades
- Grades 7–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 22
- Answer keys
- Included
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Help students use AI tools honestly and well. In this academic integrity and AI ethics unit, students learn what academic integrity means, test the difference between AI as a tool and AI doing the work, and sort 16 realistic scenarios on a green-yellow-red traffic light scale. They practice citing AI use, fact-checking AI answers and writing prompts that support learning, then build their own class AI-use agreement.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 3-4 day pacing, materials and differentiation (support, on level, challenge)
- Standards page (ISTE Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor and Creative Communicator, Common Core W and SL, CASEL)
- 5 pages of guided notes: academic integrity, a tool not a replacement, the traffic light scale, citing AI use (MLA, APA and AI-use statements), show your thinking
- 16 AI scenario cards to sort green, yellow or red
- Traffic light sort sheet with written justifications
- Fact-check the AI: find 4 errors in a confident AI answer, including a made-up source
- Improve this prompt: rewrite 5 prompts so AI supports learning
- Class AI-use agreement builder
- Process journal template for proving your own work
- 8 discussion questions with a response page
- 3 exit tickets
- Teacher AI policy template for your syllabus
- Answer keys and a discussion guide for every card (suggested color + what would change it)
How to use it
Use it over 3-4 class periods at the start of the year or before a big writing or research project, in any subject, advisory or homeroom. No AI tools or devices are required, and no AI product names are used.
Skills practiced
Academic integrityethical decision makingciting AIchecking AI output for errorswriting prompts for learningprocess documentationdiscussion
