New · For KS3 computing · Years 7 to 9 · try any lab free

AI Labs: pupils train their own AI

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Three ready-to-teach practical lessons in one place. Pupils join with a class code, train a real machine learning model in the browser, test it, try to trick it and explain what they found, like real AI engineers. No pupil accounts, nothing to install.

Three missions, one place

Try any lab yourself now, free: no sign-in, and nothing is saved or shared. To run one with your class, open the AI Labs teacher console.

🧠 Mission 1 · Teach the computerImage classification · k-nearest neighbours Pupils draw or use the camera to teach the computer three things, test it, and read a confusion matrix to see what it mixes up. Year 9 compares values of k with leave-one-out testing and works out precision and recall.

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💬 Mission 2 · Feelings detectorNatural language processing · naive Bayes Pupils teach it happy and sad sentences, discover why "not bad" and sarcasm fool it, retrain it, then run a benchmark to see how unbalanced data creates bias.

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🕵️ Mission 3 · Phishing detectiveAI for cyber security · logistic regression Pupils decide what personal information to keep private, label a made-up inbox, build a phishing filter, catch sneaky spear phishing and choose a safe threshold for a school email filter.

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A proper lesson, every time

1Do now
2Keywords
3Train
4Test
5Quiz
6Challenge
7Explain

🎯 Pitched for Year 7, 8 or 9You pick the year group: objectives, keywords, quiz and challenges change to match
🥇 Bronze, Silver, GoldScaffolded, gamified challenges with XP and hints, up to precision and recall for Year 9
📊 Automatic rubricEmerging to Excelling, worked out from each pupil's own work
⬇ Work to hand inEverything downloads as a PowerPoint and a spreadsheet
👀 Live class viewSee each pupil's progress, quiz score and challenge medal as they work
🔭 AI in their futureReal-world uses, careers and next steps at the end of every lesson

🔒 Safe by design

No pupil accounts, names or emails: a class code and a random nickname. Pictures and sentences never leave the pupil's device, and everything is deleted when the lesson ends. Schools switch it on with three safeguarding confirmations, covered by our Data Processing Agreement.

♿ Accessible

Pupils can change text size and zoom, and turn on bigger buttons, high contrast, easier-to-read text, calm mode and read aloud.

For GCSE and A level: Model Forge

AI skills enrichment for older pupils. Nine step-by-step projects where pupils build, train and test real AI in the browser: a fruit sorter, a spam spotter, a next-word machine (how chatbots work) and computer vision for GCSE; neural networks from scratch, a fairness audit, word embeddings and attention, a reinforcement-learning game agent and a real Python ML notebook for A level. Run them as live lessons with a class code, save progress to class tokens, and pupils download a certificate and portfolio for each project. The teacher guide has lesson plans, answers and short training.

🍎 The fruit sorterGCSE · free · k-nearest neighbours

📧 The spam spotterGCSE · naive Bayes · false positives

💬 The next-word machineGCSE · how chatbots work · hallucinations

👁️ Teach a computer to seeGCSE · pixels, filters and shapes

🧠 Neuron to networkA level · backpropagation · overfitting

⚖️ The fairness auditA level · bias in a loan model

🧭 Words as vectors, and attentionA level · embeddings · transformers

🤖 Train a game agentA level · reinforcement learning

🐍 Python ML notebookA level · real Python, k-NN, gradient descent

Try the free project Teacher guide and training

The fruit sorter is free for everyone. The other projects come with the Model Forge add-on to a school licence.

Offers and prices

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🏫 For schools and trusts

AI Labs is FREE with your school subscription

Every Lessonsmith for Schools licence includes AI Labs with 90 pupil licences, for the staff your admin chooses, such as your computing teachers. Plus Pro Full for every member of staff, the staff training studio and your logo on every resource.

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Not on a school subscription? Teachers can buy pupil licences themselves.