› For homeschool families
A full AI strand for your homeschool — without the tuition.
You don’t need a coding bootcamp, a robotics subscription, or an engineering degree to teach how AI works. You need a sequence, good materials, and a grown-up who stays curious. Here’s a free term you can start Monday.
What you need: A printer, a table, and an hour or two a week. A device helps later but isn’t required to begin.
- No subscription
- No coding background
- No new software
- No kid logins
› The plan
Four steps, all free.
01 · Weeks 1–2
Play the loop
Print Bot-Builders and play it as a family. Every robot and AI system senses, thinks, and acts — the game makes that stick before any vocabulary does.
Print a card game →02 · Weeks 3–8
Work through a season
Request the free Unplugged CS or AI Literacy season bundle and run one session a week. Co-ops can copy it for every family.
Get a season bundle →03 · Weeks 9–10
Argue about it
Pick a debate lesson for your learner’s grade band. Two siblings or a co-op table is plenty for a real discussion.
Choose a debate →04 · Weeks 11–12
Go self-paced
Older kids take the free AI Foundations course; you take First Principles alongside them, so you’re one step ahead, not one step behind.
Open AI Foundations →
› What “AI-ready” means
Four skills every kid will need.
Having an AI app isn't the gap — nearly every family has a phone. The gap is knowing how these systems work and how to work with them. Every free resource here builds one of these four skills.
- Understand
- AI predicts from patterns in examples. It doesn’t know things the way people do — and that explains most of what it gets wrong.
- Direct
- Break a job into steps, ask clearly, and give the machine the right examples. Directing well is the new version of doing it yourself.
- Verify
- Fluent isn’t the same as true. Check claims, follow citations to the source, and notice when a confident answer is wrong.
- Decide
- When to use it, when not to, what data you’re handing over, and who gets hurt when a system is unfair. That call stays human.
The thinking isn’t the expensive part.
Tutors, coding academies, and prep programs sell AI readiness by the hour or the semester. The thinking underneath — how a model predicts, why it sounds sure when it’s wrong, how to check it, when to say no — fits on a sheet of paper. So we put it on paper and made it free.
Free stays free. The paid Activities Pass and the Richmond clubhouse keep the lights on. Printed class sets for schools that can’t run a copier are covered by sponsors — either one the school already knows, or one we help find.
Questions people ask
Can our co-op share the materials?
Yes. The season bundles carry a giveaway license, so a co-op can photocopy them for every family. Debate lessons and card games are free PDFs.
How much screen time does this involve?
Almost none for the first eight weeks — it’s cards, paper, and conversation. The self-paced course at the end uses a device, and it’s optional.
Is there a paid version?
There’s an optional Activities Pass that gets new printables the day they’re released instead of three weeks later. Nothing on this path requires it.
Is it really free?
Yes. Some downloads ask for a grown-up’s email so we can send the file. Nothing asks for a card, and no child needs an account.
› Pass it on
Know a school, co-op, or family who needs this?
Send them the link, or print the one-pager for a front office, library desk, or PTA table.
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