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“Think First, Prompt Second” AI safety guide for parents and teachers: 33-page eBook with a classroom AI policy and a family AI agreement.

AI Safety & Digital Citizenship Guide | Responsible AI Use for Students

A 33-page AI safety and digital citizenship guide for grades 4–12: privacy, fact-checking, responsible prompting, honesty and deepfakes, with a classroom AI policy, family agreement and poster.

Suitable for
4th–12th Grade
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Learning goals

  • Ask whether AI is appropriate for the task.
  • Protect personal and private information.
  • Think before letting AI do the work for them.
  • Check important facts and sources.
  • Create work that reflects their own thinking and disclose meaningful AI help honestly.
  • Tell a trusted adult when something feels unsafe.

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What’s included

  • 33-page AI safety eBook (“Think First, Prompt Second”), printable and digital, A4, full color
  • Guidance for children and teens ages 6–18, with age-appropriate AI use recommendations
  • AI privacy and personal-data safety
  • Recognizing AI hallucinations and misinformation, with fact-checking strategies
  • Responsible prompting, academic honesty and AI disclosure for student work
  • Bias and fairness, deepfakes and synthetic media awareness
  • AI companions and emotional-safety guidance, healthy AI habits and “no-AI” learning situations
  • Parent and teacher checklists and classroom AI expectations
  • Printable one-page classroom AI policy, family AI agreement and student AI safety poster
  • Student discussion and reflection activities
  • Incident-response guidance and a reference section for further reading

Materials and preparation

  • A PDF reader
  • A printer for the pages you want on paper
  • A projector or screen, optional

Read the guide first, then choose what your group needs: print the classroom AI policy or the student poster, project pages during a lesson, or send the family AI agreement home.

Who it’s for

Teachers, parents, school counselors, librarians, technology specialists and school leaders. The ideas work from elementary to high school, with adult guidance adjusted to each student’s age and maturity.

Think first, prompt second

The guide goes beyond a list of AI rules. It helps students see when AI can support their learning and when it gets in the way, and how to protect themselves from privacy risks, misinformation, deepfakes, inappropriate content and depending on AI too much.

Use it in class

Use it for digital citizenship and AI literacy lessons, technology classes, media literacy units, advisory periods or your beginning-of-year expectations. Print the one-page classroom AI policy and the student poster, and use the discussion and reflection activities with the group.

Bring families in

Send the family AI agreement home or use it in a parent workshop, so the rules at school and at home match.

For younger students in grades 3–6, start with the free AI Smart Kids resource.

Adaptations

  • For younger students, read one idea at a time and talk about a real example together.
  • For teens, use the deepfake and AI companion sections as discussion starters.
  • Project a page during the lesson instead of printing the whole guide.
  • Use the parent and teacher checklists to agree on the same expectations at school and at home.

Questions

Which ages is the guide for?

It is listed for grades 4–12 on TPT, and its guidance covers children and teens ages 6–18, with adult guidance adjusted to age and maturity.

What format is it?

A 33-page full-color PDF in A4. You can print selected pages, project them during lessons or read it on screen.

Which printables are included?

A one-page classroom AI policy, a family AI agreement and a student AI safety poster, plus parent and teacher checklists.

Does it tell students to avoid AI?

No. Instead of “use AI” or “avoid AI”, it teaches judgment, privacy, verification, integrity and responsibility.

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