Storyboard
A storyboard plans each shot and its narration before production begins, which prevents most of the rework.
AI for Kids · Class 7 · Module 7 of 9
Video Communication
Explaining something to a younger student is the toughest test of whether you understand it.
8 sessionsSessions 49–56
4 weeksTypical pace
FoundationLevel
Class 7Artificial Intelligence
The big idea
Students storyboard a video, produce it using avatar presenters and AI assets, then add captions — learning that accessibility is a design requirement rather than an optional extra.
Why it matters
Teaching a younger audience exposes every gap in the explainer’s own understanding.
Unpacked
What you will actually learn
Three core ideas, each taught with worked examples and then practised until it feels obvious.
Avatar presenters
Avatar presenters need natural pacing and honest disclosure. An unlabelled synthetic presenter misleads the audience.
Captions and accessibility
Captions and accessibility widen your audience, help anyone watching without sound, and are increasingly expected as standard.
Did you know?
A large share of social video is watched with the sound off. Captions are not a bonus feature — they are how most people will experience your video.
Common mix-up
“Auto-captions are good enough.” They mangle names, technical words and accents. Always read them through and fix them.
Session by session
Your 8-session journey
Sessions 49–56 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 storyboard.
- 2
Storyboard
Guided teaching on storyboard, worked through together with the teacher.
- 3
Storyboard — practice lab
Independent practice, small challenges and one deliberate mistake to diagnose.
- 4
Avatar presenters
Guided teaching on avatar presenters, building directly on the previous two sessions.
- 5
Avatar presenters — practice lab
Applied tasks that combine storyboard and avatar presenters in one piece of work.
- 6
Captions and accessibility
Captions and accessibility introduced and practised, completing the toolkit needed for the project.
- 7
Project build
Guided build session for the module project: Explainer video for a younger class.
- 8
Test, present and reflect
Finish, test against the checklist, present the work and explain the decisions behind it.
Project lab
Explainer video for a younger class
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 56.
Try this at home
Show your video to an actual younger student and note every point where they look confused. Those are your edits.
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 7 can:
- Explain and use storyboard without prompting
- Explain and use avatar presenters without prompting
- Explain and use captions and accessibility without prompting
- Build and finish explainer video for a younger class
- 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:
- storyboard
- A shot-by-shot visual plan for a video.
- avatar
- A synthetic on-screen presenter.
- accessibility
- Designing so more people can use something.
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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