Summit School presents
Summit AI
A complete K–8 artificial intelligence literacy program — forty-five ready-to-teach lessons that give every Summit student, from Kindergarten to Eighth Grade, an honest understanding of the technology shaping their world.
9 — grade levels, K–8
45 — complete, ready-to-teach lessons
100+ — handouts & reproducible materials
0 — purchases or prior AI expertise required
Our students will spend their lives working alongside artificial intelligence.
Summit isn’t waiting for a textbook to catch up. As an independent school, Summit can adapt quickly and stay at the forefront of education — and Summit AI is that freedom put to work: a complete, research-grounded program that teaches children what AI is, how it learns, where it fails, and how to use it with judgment and integrity.
Built for every grade
Nine self-contained units, Kindergarten through Eighth Grade, each tuned to how children think at that age — from sorting games at five to a responsible-use capstone at fourteen.
No expertise required
Every lesson is fully scripted for the teacher, with every handout and material included. Summit’s expert educators run it on day one — no AI background needed.
Safety woven through
A digital-citizenship thread grows with the child across all nine grades — including a full unit on AI-companion safety in seventh grade.
One program, three chapters
Grades K–2 · Early Foundations
Machines can seem smart, but people make them. Students sort, draw, and play their way to three honest ideas: a machine isn’t alive, people teach machines with examples, and devices sense the world in their own limited way.
Grades 3–5 · Building Understanding
How AI actually learns — patterns, data, and prediction. Students discover that data comes from somewhere, that biased data is unfair to real people, and that AI makes guesses, not facts — so we verify what matters and protect what’s private.
Grades 6–8 · Critical & Creative Use
Living well with generative AI. Students learn how AI makes things (and makes things up), why AI that talks like a person isn’t a person, and how to use these tools responsibly, honestly — and when not to use them at all.
Inspiring Minds. Building Community. Shaping Futures. Summit AI is the newest expression of the promise Summit makes every family: students prepared to thrive in a rapidly changing world.