Question planning
Question planning turns a topic into an answerable question. “Water” is a topic; “why does our area flood every monsoon?” can actually be researched.
AI for Kids · Class 7 · Module 3 of 9
Research Without Copying
Research is not collecting sentences. It is deciding which sentences deserve trust.
8 sessionsSessions 17–24
4 weeksTypical pace
FoundationLevel
Class 7Artificial Intelligence
The big idea
Students plan a research question, gather from multiple sources, compare where those sources disagree, and produce notes and citations that make the trail of evidence visible.
Why it matters
AI makes copying effortless, which makes genuine research skill more valuable, not less.
Unpacked
What you will actually learn
Three core ideas, each taught with worked examples and then practised until it feels obvious.
Source comparison
Source comparison means noticing where sources disagree and asking why — different dates, different methods, different interests.
Notes and citations
Notes and citations record where each fact came from as you go, because reconstructing it afterwards is miserable and often impossible.
Did you know?
Wikipedia’s greatest strength is not its articles but its reference lists — the citations at the bottom are where real research begins.
Common mix-up
“AI can do my research.” AI can summarise and suggest directions. It cannot judge whether a source deserves your trust.
Session by session
Your 8-session journey
Sessions 17–24 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 question planning.
- 2
Question planning
Guided teaching on question planning, worked through together with the teacher.
- 3
Question planning — practice lab
Independent practice, small challenges and one deliberate mistake to diagnose.
- 4
Source comparison
Guided teaching on source comparison, building directly on the previous two sessions.
- 5
Source comparison — practice lab
Applied tasks that combine question planning and source comparison in one piece of work.
- 6
Notes and citations
Notes and citations introduced and practised, completing the toolkit needed for the project.
- 7
Project build
Guided build session for the module project: Mini research brief with source trail.
- 8
Test, present and reflect
Finish, test against the checklist, present the work and explain the decisions behind it.
Project lab
Mini research brief with source trail
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 24.
Try this at home
Research one claim from three different sources. Where they disagree, write down which you believe and exactly why.
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 3 can:
- Explain and use question planning without prompting
- Explain and use source comparison without prompting
- Explain and use notes and citations without prompting
- Build and finish mini research brief with source trail
- 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:
- research question
- A specific question an investigation aims to answer.
- citation
- A reference showing where information came from.
- primary source
- Original evidence rather than someone’s summary.
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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