Fun Lessons with AI: 20 Ideas for Teachers in Every Subject

A fun lesson with AI uses artificial intelligence as a tool for students’ thinking, not a machine that hands out answers: students interview a historical figure, hunt for AI’s mistakes, solve an escape room or debate the machine. Below are 20 ideas by subject and grade, each with a ready prompt and a safety rule.

One principle runs through all of them: AI does not do the task for the student; it creates a learning situation in which the student thinks, checks and argues. That way an interactive lesson also teaches AI literacy, because students see that the machine makes mistakes and its answers need checking.

Safety rules before you use AI in class

Every idea below rests on these rules:

• Age. Each service sets its own minimum age: OpenAI’s terms, for example, set 13 (with a parent’s permission under 18), and Claude’s consumer terms require users to be at least 18. UNESCO’s guidance also proposes an age limit for independent conversations with generative AI. In primary and lower secondary grades, the teacher runs AI from their own account on the projector.
• Data. Students’ names, photos, voices and marks never go into AI.
• Checking. Every AI fact needs checking. Make that part of the lesson, not extra work.
• Transparency. Always tell students where AI is used and why.
• Real people. Do not have AI play a living person. Historical figures are fine; classmates or living celebrities are not.

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History and social studies: 4 ideas

1. Interview a historical figure

History, grades 7–12. Students prepare five questions and the teacher puts them to the AI. Afterwards, groups check three of its statements against the textbook. Safety: tell students AI may be wrong, and count finding one mistake as a win.

You are Ivane Javakhishvili in 1918, in the days when Tbilisi University opened.
Answer Grade 8 students' questions in the first person, simply,
in 3–4 sentences each. If you are not sure of something, say so.

2. Historical “breaking news”

History, grades 6–9. AI writes a TV report from a historical event and students act as editors, hunting for anachronisms and factual errors. Safety: read the text before class.

Write a 150-word TV report from just after the Battle of Didgori in 1121,
as if a journalist were there. Include exactly 3 anachronisms and 2 factual
errors. At the end, list them separately for the teacher.

3. Debate the AI

Civics, grades 8–12. The class takes a position and AI argues the other side. Groups prepare counter-arguments, then judge who was more convincing and why. Safety: choose age-appropriate topics and avoid divisive political or religious ones.

We are debating: "Phones should be banned in lessons." The class is for;
you argue against. Each round, give one argument in 3 sentences at a Grade 9
level. My next message will be the class's argument.

4. Map and decision

Geography, grades 7–9. Students found a new settlement and choose its site from a map; AI describes the consequences of each choice. Safety: check AI’s geographical data against an atlas.

Create a role-play for Grade 8: students found a new settlement. Offer 3 sites
(riverside, mountain slope, seashore), each with 2 advantages and 2 risks.
After they choose, describe what happened 50 years later.

Georgian, literature and foreign languages: 4 ideas

5. A class story with pictures

Language, grades 2–4. The class votes on a hero, a place and a problem; AI offers three plot options at each step. At the end the teacher creates illustrations and prints a class book. Safety: no student names or photos.

We are writing a story for Grade 3. Hero: [class choice]. Write the first
paragraph in 4–5 simple sentences, then offer 3 one-sentence options
for what happens next.

6. A letter to a literary character

Literature, grades 7–10. A student writes to a character and AI replies in character. The class then discusses whether the reply fits the text and where the AI “broke character”. Safety: paste letters without names.

Reply to this letter as [character] from [book]. Stay in character and refer
to one episode from the text. 120 words. Letter: [paste, without name]

7. The style game

Language, grades 9–12. AI writes the same content in three styles: official, conversational and literary. Students identify the features of each, then write their own version in a fourth style. Safety: check AI’s Georgian and turn any calques into discussion material.

Write the same news (a school trip postponed because of rain) in three styles:
an official notice, a message to a friend and a paragraph from a story.
60–80 words each.

8. A conversation partner in a foreign language

English, grades 5–12. AI plays a waiter, a traveller or a guide and students take turns answering. The teacher types their answers into the chat, the class listens to the AI’s replies read aloud, and the AI corrects mistakes gently. Safety: run it from the teacher’s account, in class, so students’ voices are not recorded by the service.

Let's role-play. You are a waiter in a café in Tbilisi. Speak only simple
English (A2 level). After each student's answer, gently correct one mistake,
then continue with a question.

Maths: 3 ideas

9. Word problems from students’ interests

Maths, grades 4–8. The class names its interests (football, dance, games) and AI writes problems on the current topic around them. When a problem is “about us”, students often work with more interest. Safety: check the solutions, since AI sometimes makes calculation errors.

Write 5 word problems on adding fractions for Grade 5. Themes: football,
dance, video games, cooking, animals. Increase difficulty gradually.
Give answers and solution steps separately.

10. Find the mistake in the solution

Maths, grades 6–11. AI solves a problem with one hidden mistake and students, as “auditors”, find where it starts and why. It is good practice in spotting typical errors. Safety: check in advance that there is only one mistake.

Solve this equation step by step, but in one step make a typical Grade 8
mistake (such as a sign error). Do not mark it. At the end, tell the
teacher separately where it is. Equation: [paste]

11. Fermi questions: estimation and logic

Maths and physics, grades 7–12. Fermi questions, named after the physicist Enrico Fermi, teach rough estimation. “How many buses run in Tbilisi in the morning?” Nobody knows exactly, but you can estimate with logic. Groups make their estimates and AI only gives hints. Safety: forbid AI from giving the answer.

We are playing Fermi questions with Grade 9. Question: [paste]. Do not give
the answer. When a group sends its reasoning, give one hint: which assumption
might be far too big or too small.

Science: 4 ideas

12. A classroom escape room

Biology or any subject, grades 5–9. AI creates four puzzles whose answers form a code. The teacher prints the cards and groups race to “escape”. Safety: solve the puzzles yourself first.

Create an escape room for Grade 7 on "The cell". 4 puzzles, each answer is
one digit, together a 4-digit code: a riddle, a diagram to complete,
true/false and a cipher. Give answers separately. Total time: 25 minutes.

13. AI’s prediction versus a real experiment

Science, grades 5–8. Ask AI what will happen in an experiment; students first write their own hypothesis, then run it and compare who was right. This is the heart of STEAM learning, covered in STEAM and STEM education in schools: how to introduce it. Safety: run experiments under teacher supervision, and follow safety rules with hot water and chemicals.

Experiment: we add salt to a glass of water until an egg floats.
Explain to Grade 5 what will happen and why, in 4 sentences.
End with one question students can use to check the result.

14. Ask the mitochondrion

Biology, grades 7–9. AI plays a part of the cell and explains its job in the first person. Students ask questions and draw a comic from the answers. Safety: match terms to the textbook.

You are a mitochondrion. Answer Grade 8 students' questions in the first
person, with humour but scientifically correct, 3 sentences each. Use the
terms in this text: [paste textbook paragraph]

15. An element’s profile

Chemistry, grades 8–10. AI writes a social-media-style profile for an element. Students check every fact against the periodic table and the textbook, then write a profile for another element. Safety: verify numbers with the table.

Create a social-media-style "profile" of manganese for Grade 9: atomic
number, where it is found in nature and in Georgia, what it is used for,
its "friends" (compounds). Include 1 mistake for students to find.

Art, music and digital literacy: 3 ideas

16. Describe a painting in words

Art, grades 5–9. Students look at a painting (for example, one by Pirosmani) and describe it; the teacher generates an image from their description. Comparing it with the original shows the value of precise description. Safety: the teacher generates images from their own account.

Create an image following exactly this description, adding nothing:
[paste the class description]

17. One song, three genres

Music, grades 5–9. The teacher creates three versions of one short text in different genres in a service like Suno, and students identify tempo, instruments and mood. Safety: Suno’s free plan is for personal, non-commercial use only, so do not share the songs outside the class. More in how to make music with AI.

Style field: Georgian folk, acoustic, slow tempo, male choir
(then the same lyrics twice more: jazz, piano, swing and electronic, synth, 120 BPM)
[Verse]
[4 lines written by the class]

18. Human or AI?

Digital literacy, grades 7–12. The teacher mixes three texts written by people and three by AI; students guess and justify. The conclusion matters: a 2023 study of 14 detection tools found them neither accurate nor reliable. Safety: use students’ writing only with their consent.

Write 3 short essays (100 words each) on "My favourite place in Tbilisi",
as if written by a Grade 9 student: one with a few mistakes, one very
polished, one funny.

Any subject: 2 ideas

19. Spot AI’s mistakes

Any subject, grades 5–12. AI writes a text with five deliberate errors and groups find and fix them with the textbook. It is one of the simplest ideas: students revise the topic and practise a critical attitude to AI. Safety: only the teacher sees the error list.

Write a 200-word text on [topic] for Grade [X]. Include exactly 5 factual
errors that can be checked in the textbook. Afterwards, separately, list the
errors and the correct versions.

20. End-of-unit quiz show

Any subject, grades 4–12. AI creates a TV-style quiz of 10 questions of rising difficulty with a “lifeline” hint each, and teams compete. You can also move the questions into Google Forms. Safety: check questions and answers beforehand.

Create a 10-question quiz on [topic] for Grade [X], difficulty rising from
1 to 10, 4 options each. Add a hint to each question that a team may use
once. Give the answer key separately.

How to assess a fun lesson

Fun does not mean unassessed. Each activity needs one clear goal and a short check at the end: an exit ticket, three questions or one sentence on “what I learned”. AI can help with marking open answers and building rubrics, as described in grading homework with AI: rubrics, feedback and the real risks. If you need a lesson plan, quiz and worksheet fast, see preparing teaching materials with AI in 15 minutes.

Frequently asked questions

How can I make a lesson fun with AI?

Use AI to create situations rather than answers: role-play, error hunts, debates, puzzles. Students think and check; AI prepares the material and the scenario. Start with a 15-minute activity, not a whole lesson.

From what age can students use AI themselves?

Each service sets a minimum age in its terms. OpenAI’s terms set 13, with a parent’s permission under 18; Claude’s consumer terms set 18; and children under 13 can use Gemini only through an account a parent manages with Family Link. In primary and lower secondary grades it is safest for the teacher to run AI on the projector.

Which AI tool is best for the classroom?

The prompts above work in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Choose the one your school already uses and check how well it writes in your language with your subject’s terms. Images and music need separate services.

Won’t this overload teachers?

Not if you start well. Each idea takes 10–15 minutes to prepare, and a ready prompt works for your second and third classes too. Just do not introduce many ideas at once.

Where can teachers get AI training in Tbilisi?

TDS offers two formats: the two-hour online workshop AI for Lesson Planning in 2 Hours and the 8-session AI for Teachers course, in which you prepare a complete unit for your own subject. A separate group can also be opened for several teachers from one school.

Next step

Choose one idea for your next topic and try it tomorrow. To learn to prepare materials with AI with us, start with the two-hour online workshop AI for Lesson Planning in 2 Hours. For a complete unit with illustrations, Georgian audio and an interactive quiz, see the course AI for Teachers. You will find it alongside courses for other professions on our AI courses page.

Sources

• Guidance for generative AI in education and research, UNESCO
• Terms of Use, OpenAI
• Consumer Terms of Service, Anthropic
• Gemini Apps for children under 13, Google Help
• Testing of Detection Tools for AI-Generated Text (Weber-Wulff et al.), arXiv
• Terms of Service, Suno
• Make a quiz with Google Forms, Google Docs Editors Help
• Law of Georgia on Personal Data Protection, Legislative Herald of Georgia