The AI Lesson Planning Framework

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AI Readiness Library · Edition 06

The AI Lesson Planning Framework

How to plan a lesson that helps pupils understand AI, in any subject: five questions to settle first, the planning template, a worked example, and a record for reviewing the lesson once it is taught.

Inside

6 sections, the template worked and blank, 12 pages

For

Teachers, heads of department and curriculum leads

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What's inside

1. 01What the lesson is for

   A lesson about AI leaves pupils understanding something about how AI works, taught inside a subject.

   1 page

2. 02Five questions before you plan

   The idea, the subject, the big question, whether a tool is needed, and where the lesson stops.

   1 page

3. 03The planning template

   Before the lesson, running the lesson, and checking understanding while it happens.

   3 pages

4. 04A worked example

   A Year 6 science lesson on whether the machines we train are fair, planned with the template.

   1 page

5. 05After the lesson

   Three levels of understanding, and a short record of what to keep and what to change.

   1 page

6. 06Connecting to schemes of work

   How single lessons build into a three-week project, and how AI ideas sit across subjects. A blank template follows.

   2 pages

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Scope and applicability

This edition plans lessons that teach pupils about AI: how it works, where it goes wrong and when to trust what it produces. It works in any subject, and many of its lessons need no AI tool at all. Where a tool is used, it is one the school has approved.

Guidance current as of November 2026.

Frameworks referenced

• UNESCO AI competency framework for students, 2024
• European Commission and OECD AI Literacy Framework, 2026
• OECD PISA 2029 Media and Artificial Intelligence Literacy