The Teacher Day Cards
Per day: the timing, the opening line you actually say, the moves in order, the two questions that rescue a stalled discussion — and what to do if the class won’t talk.
Free first week · Grade 9
You were told to teach AI literacy. Nobody handed you the curriculum.
So here is the first week, already built. Ten Decisions: five days of Grade 9 AI literacy you can photocopy and teach — the opening lines you say out loud, the student handouts, the answer guidance, and what to do when the class won’t talk. No logins. No devices. Print it Friday, teach it Monday.
You’ve lived it
The gap that was never yours to close alone
- You asked for training on how to tell when students used AI. The PD was 80% about which AI tools you should use instead.
- The state says “teach media literacy” — without defining what that means or giving you a single resource to do it.
- Five days to build a unit on something changing every month — and no framework that won’t be obsolete by the time you teach it.
- The only real help is a colleague down the hall passing around tips — because the district hasn’t run an AI 101 since 2022.
The gap is real. It was never a you problem.
The shift
You don’t need another plan to write. You need the first week already written.
Five periods, one idea a day — notice, understand, check, weigh, explain. Students trace what got decided for them, work as the machine to see how a prediction is made, build a plan to check a confident claim, argue a decision from four honest points of view, then explain the whole thing to an adult at home in sixty seconds. Every day ends with one piece of paper they hand you.
What you were handed
- × A mandate with no curriculum attached
- × PD that taught you to use AI, not to teach about it
- × Worksheets that need a login your class doesn’t have
What actually holds
- ✓ Five days already written — script, handouts, answers
- ✓ Paper only: no login, no device, nothing to sign
- ✓ Built on what a machine does, not on this week’s app
What's in the week
A complete week, 34 pages
Not a preview, not a sample chapter, not a planning template for something you’d need to buy. If your five periods this week are these five days, you are fully covered.
The Student Handouts
Photocopy-ready, pure line-art so they stay clean in greyscale. Real writing room, a worked sample on every sheet, an extension for whoever finishes early.
“Be the Machine”
Students predict from eight labelled examples, name the pattern they used — then a twist card reveals the data is six months stale. They discover why a prediction misses, by hand.
What to Send to the Copier
Exact page ranges to type into your print dialog, how many copies of what, and the one rule that keeps Day 2’s reveal from leaking.
Where the Rest of the Year Goes
The four-year arc in plain language — Grade 9 builds the habits, 10 moves them into the subjects, 11 raises the rigour, 12 lands a capstone. Plan from it whether or not you ever download anything else.
Get the week — free
Send me the free first week
Enter your email and we’ll send all 34 pages straight to your inbox — plus a short, practical AI-teaching email most school days.
- ✓ Five teacher day cards — script, timing, troubleshooting
- ✓ Ten student handouts, photocopy-ready
- ✓ Answer guidance and what to look for, per day
- ✓ A print guide with the exact page ranges
- ✓ The four-year arc, in plain language
Made by teachers, for teachers who still teach. Every page is paper. No AI account, no student logins, no software, nothing for a parent to sign.