Idea generation
Idea generation is where AI shines. Ask for twenty story premises, discard nineteen, and keep the one that sparks something.
AI for Kids · Class 6 · Module 4 of 9
Writing and Story Worlds
AI can suggest a thousand ideas. Choosing the good one is still your job.
8 sessionsSessions 25–32
4 weeksTypical pace
FoundationLevel
Class 6Artificial Intelligence
The big idea
Students use AI for the parts of writing where it genuinely helps — brainstorming, structuring, unsticking a middle chapter — while keeping the voice, the choices and the final sentences their own.
Why it matters
This module sets the authorship standard for the whole programme: AI may assist the process, but the student remains the author.
Unpacked
What you will actually learn
Three core ideas, each taught with worked examples and then practised until it feels obvious.
Character and plot
Character and plot benefit from AI as a questioner: what does this character want, and what stands in the way?
Editing in your own voice
Editing in your own voice means rewriting AI suggestions in your own words, because a story that does not sound like you is not yours.
Did you know?
Authors have used prompts, dice and randomness for generating ideas for centuries. What is new is the speed, not the technique.
Common mix-up
“Using AI means it is not my story.” Using AI to brainstorm is fine and honest. Submitting AI text as your own writing is not.
Session by session
Your 8-session journey
Sessions 25–32 of the 72-session year, at two one-hour sessions per week.
- 1
Warm-up and big picture
Where this module fits, what you will build, and a hands-on starter that gets everyone curious about idea generation.
- 2
Idea generation
Guided teaching on idea generation, worked through together with the teacher.
- 3
Idea generation — practice lab
Independent practice, small challenges and one deliberate mistake to diagnose.
- 4
Character and plot
Guided teaching on character and plot, building directly on the previous two sessions.
- 5
Character and plot — practice lab
Applied tasks that combine idea generation and character and plot in one piece of work.
- 6
Editing in your own voice
Editing in your own voice introduced and practised, completing the toolkit needed for the project.
- 7
Project build
Guided build session for the module project: Illustrated short story with an authorship note.
- 8
Test, present and reflect
Finish, test against the checklist, present the work and explain the decisions behind it.
Project lab
Illustrated short story with an authorship note
Every module ends with something the student built themselves and can demonstrate. This is the piece that goes into their portfolio and gets explained out loud at the end of session 32.
Try this at home
Write an authorship note for your story: what you thought of, what AI suggested, and what you changed. Honesty is the skill here.
It is finished when
- It works from start to finish without breaking
- You can explain every part of it in your own words
- You tested it and improved at least one thing afterwards
- Someone else used or understood it without your help
By the end of this module
Students finishing Module 4 can:
- Explain and use idea generation without prompting
- Explain and use character and plot without prompting
- Explain and use editing in your own voice without prompting
- Build and finish illustrated short story with an authorship note
- Test your own work and correct what you find
- Talk an adult through what you made and why
Word bank
The vocabulary introduced here, in plain language:
- brainstorming
- Generating many ideas before choosing one.
- voice
- The personal style that makes writing sound like you.
- authorship note
- A statement of who contributed what.
Module challenge
Think you have got this?
0 XPLevel 1 · Curious Beginner
6 quick questions drawn from this module — vocabulary, the project you build, and a myth-or-fact round. Every wrong answer explains itself, so a mistake still teaches you something.
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