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Class 6
The Class 6 book

Understanding AI

6 units · 32 lessons · a project to end every unit, and one for the year

Open any lesson to read it the way a student does — one step at a time. Nothing you do here is saved; students work in their own accounts, where their missions, guesses and Checks are kept.

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Unit 0

Getting to know the laptop

6 lessons
  1. 0.1Meet the laptopSana pressed every key. Nothing happened. Then her uncle showed her one small button — and the screen lit up.40 minVideo3 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  2. 0.2Point, click and dragImran tapped the laptop screen like a phone. Nothing happened. The screen can't feel your finger — so how do you touch anything?40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  3. 0.3Files and folders"If I threw everything in one pile, I'd never find your birth certificate." A laptop needs shelves too.40 minVideo3 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  4. 0.4Sit well, find homeThe rabab teacher wouldn't let Adil play for a whole week. "First, learn to sit." Typing starts the same way.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  5. 0.5My first typing classFaisal's login card had a username and a hidden password — but not his name. "Where's my name?" Somewhere safer.40 minVideo3 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  6. 0.6Practice, and my own goalGrandfather's walk to the mosque took 20 minutes after his operation. A month later: 12. He never raced anyone — only yesterday's him.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
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Unit 1

AI and everyday life

5 lessons
  1. 1.1What is AI?A rain alert. English turning into Arabic. A page turning into Urdu. How does the phone know all this? Someone taught it.40 minVideoLaptop missionPictureDebateCheck · 6 questions
  2. 1.2Is it AI, or just automatic?Every morning at 6, click — the orchard pump switches on by itself. Even when it rained all night. Is it smart?40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 5 questions
  3. 1.3Human vs. machine intelligenceA computer adds 500 numbers in under a second. Then Grandmother asks: “Is this kahwa too hot for Bilal?” The computer has no idea.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 7 questions
  4. 1.4AI in Kashmir todayApple scab spotted Uncle's leaves black last year. This year, scientists in Kashmir are teaching computers to spot it from a photo.40 minVideoLaptop missionPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  5. 1.5Three ways machines learnHiba learns birds from names. Bilal sorts buttons with no names at all. Sana falls off her bicycle and tries again. Machines learn in exactly these three ways.45 minVideo3 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 7 questions
  6. Unit projectAI detectives
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Unit 2

Data

5 lessons
  1. 2.1Five kinds of data: numbers, text, images, video and soundA photo of a spotted leaf. A voice note from Delhi. A price in a message. A clip of the packing shed. The number 248. So different — and all of it is data.40 minVideo3 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 6 questions
  2. 2.2Rows and columns: organising data in a tableScraps of paper all day at the mandi: Ambri 40, Delicious 65, no wait… In the evening nobody can say how many Delicious boxes were sold.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 5 questions
  3. 2.3Pictures of data: bar charts and pictogramsWalk 14, Bus 9, Car 3, Bicycle 2, Sumo 4. Which is the most? Draw five bars — and everyone can see it at once.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 5 questions
  4. 2.4Our class dataset: asking good questionsSana's sports survey asks for your full name, your phone number and your home address. "Why do you need my phone number to know I like cricket?"40 minVideo3 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 6 questions
  5. 2.5Good data, bad dataThe weather app says: 29 °C, sunny, wear light clothes! Outside Srinagar it is snowing. The app worked perfectly — it just learned from Chennai.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 6 questions
  6. Unit projectCount it, chart it, check it
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Unit 3

Patterns and decisions

5 lessons
  1. 3.1Patterns in my weekIt's Sunday. Irfan knows the chai will be late — and he never looked at a clock. How?40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  2. 3.2Patterns in data — Srinagar's weatherGrandfather says the Dal once froze so hard he walked on it. Which month is really the coldest? Let the numbers draw you a picture.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 5 questions
  3. 3.3Making predictionsHiba guesses the mid-day meal right, two days running. "Are you magic?" No — she noticed the menu repeats.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 5 questions
  4. 3.4Decision trees — sorting applesA mountain of apples, three boxes, and helpers who keep asking "which box?" Uncle draws his answer on a piece of cardboard.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  5. 3.5When patterns misleadIrfan wore his green cap and his team won. Twice! "It's my lucky cap." Then week three happened.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  6. Unit projectThe sorting tree
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Unit 4

Ethics and digital responsibility

6 lessons
  1. 4.1Digital footprintsFox prints in the Gulmarg snow show where it went, where it stopped, where it turned. Your clicks leave prints too — and they don't melt.40 minVideo3 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 5 questions
  2. 4.2Privacy — my data, my choice"Allow this cricket game to use your camera, microphone, contacts and location?" "Just press yes." Wait — why does a cricket game need your phone book?40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 5 questions
  3. 4.3Passwords and 2-step loginUncle's shop page is full of posts he never wrote. His password was a walnut and three numbers. A computer guessed it before breakfast.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 6 questions
  4. 4.4Respect online — kind words, true words"URGENT!!! Schools closed tomorrow!" Forwarded to five groups in ten minutes. Next morning: sunshine, school open, half the class at home.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  5. 4.5Human-centred design — who is it for?The school notice arrives as tiny grey letters on pale yellow. Nani holds it close, then far, then gives up. Did anyone who made it think of her?40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  6. 4.6Copying, cheating and creators' rightsMonday: a copied project. Wednesday: a "free" program full of malware. Friday: Hiba's own kani drawing on someone else's page, marked "My design".40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 5 questions
  7. Unit projectThe Class 5 safety guide
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Unit 5

Computational thinking

5 lessons
  1. 5.1Big jobs, small tasksPlantation Day! "Easy — we just plant the trees." Then: who brings the saplings? Who digs? Who fetches water? What if it rains?40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  2. 5.2The weaver's codeAn old man reads out numbers — "three of red, two of green…" — and a weaver builds a shawl from them. Kashmiri weavers were running code long before computers.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  3. 5.3Abstraction: what to leave out"You pass the baker — best girda — then a blue gate, then my aunt's three cats…" Adil is lost. A map with four shapes gets him there in five seconds.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  4. 5.4If this, then thatSnowing? Pheran and gumboots. Road closed? Bus at the main stop. Otherwise, walk. Nasir's mother never repeats herself — she gave him rules.40 minVideo2 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 4 questions
  5. 5.5Bug hunters1947: a computer gives wrong answers. Inside, engineers find a moth. Every mistake since has been called a bug — and finding them is a skill.40 minVideo3 laptop missionsPictureDebateCheck · 5 questions
  6. Unit projectTeach the computer a school job
Year projectOur school in dataBe the data scientist. Ask a real question about your school, count the answer for a week, and find the pattern hiding in your own numbers.