11–14
Young Minds
Scenarios, projects, and honest talk. Learn to catch a confident wrong answer — including your own.
- Sitting
- 25–30 minutes.
- Ritual
- Talk About It
- AI rule
- Hint, then example. Never a ghostwriter. Optional local voice or image understanding if a parent turns it on. Talk About It before you paste anything.
Hint, then example. Talk About It. Chat. Optional local voice-to-text. Optional image understanding.
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Claim, Evidence, Check
Critical Thinking · Sitting 1 · 28 min
Metacognition before any subject tool
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Talk About It. Hint, then example. Talk About It. Chat. Optional local voice-to-text. Optional image understanding. Hint, then example. Never a ghostwriter. Optional local voice or image understanding if a parent turns it on. Talk About It before you paste anything.
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Autonomous AI
Subject hub- Sitting 1Fluency Is Not UnderstandingEleven-to-fourteen is the age that falls for tone28 min
- Sitting 1Break It on PurposeThey use chatbots and study tools already28 min
- Sitting 2No Hidden HomeworkThis sitting will surface what they already do28 min
- Sitting 2What Does It Remember About You?Kids trade privacy for convenience without noticing28 min
- Sitting 3The Confident ErrorThey already live in search28 min
- Sitting 3Every Tool Is a DoorThey will meet agents that can search, read files, send messages, and act while they are not watching28 min
- Sitting 4Tools Are PermissionsThey want plugins, memory, and 'just this once28 min
- Sitting 5Nothing Identifying Leaves the DeskGroup chats plus homework help is how other children's data leaks28 min
- Sitting 6Run a Sitting, Then Audit ItPoint them at math, English, or science — the flagship lessons28 min
Art
Subject hub- Sitting 1The Feed Trains the TwitchThis sitting builds on the little version28 min
- Sitting 1Hand Before GenerateThis is not a ban on image tools28 min
- Sitting 2Life Has DentsThis sitting builds on the little version28 min
- Sitting 3The Default Is Not Your TasteThis sitting teaches the student to see the default and fight it28 min
- Sitting 4Has the Feed Decided Your Taste?This sitting makes the student audit their own taste28 min
- Sitting 5The Refusal Is the TasteThis sitting teaches that the refusal is the taste28 min
- Sitting 6The Full Taste CycleThis is the capstone for the young band28 min
Computer Science
Subject hub- Sitting 1Specify the AgentThis is CS without requiring Python28 min
- Sitting 2The Refuse-List Is the SpecSame muscle as sitting 1's one-page spec, now the refuse-list only28 min
- Sitting 3Name It or It Stays OffHomework help is a request, not a permission28 min
- Sitting 4Off Is Part of the SpecOne failure mode: the helper says I'll just finish this28 min
- Sitting 5Synthetic FirstMirrors EVALS28 min
- Sitting 6One Spec, Not a LaunchLayer 3 (When ready) is later: kit docs, evals, parent-operated28 min
English
Subject hub- Sitting 1Who Earned the Floor?Ethos is the first of the three classical appeals28 min
- Sitting 1You Write ItThe family rule card should already exist28 min
- Sitting 2The Feeling That Moves YouPathos is the appeal to feeling28 min
- Sitting 3The Argument That HoldsLogos is the appeal to reason28 min
- Sitting 4The Machine That Fakes All ThreeThis sitting ties the three appeals together28 min
- Sitting 5Your Voice Against the MachineThis sitting brings rhetoric home28 min
- Sitting 6Rhetorical Self-DefenseThis is the capstone for the young band28 min
History
Subject hub- Sitting 1The Words Before the StoryThis is the first sitting on primary text28 min
- Sitting 1The Field at RunnymedeThis sitting tells the story of Magna Carta as it actually happened — not as a noble moment of liberty but as a milit…28 min
- Sitting 1The Room No One Could LeaveThis sitting tells the story of the Constitutional Convention honestly28 min
- Sitting 1Jefferson Did Not Write It AloneThis sitting corrects a common misconception: that Jefferson wrote the Declaration alone, in a room, with a quill pen28 min
- Sitting 1The Newspaper That Tried to Sell the RulesThis sitting breaks the most common mix-up in American civics: treating The Federalist as if it were the Constitution…28 min
- Sitting 1The Constitution Stops Counting People as FractionsThis sitting is the landing the Federalist unit pointed at28 min
- Sitting 1Source Before SummaryOne letter, law, or diary page28 min
- Sitting 2The Declaration as RhetoricThis sitting connects the Rhetoric unit to the founding documents28 min
- Sitting 2The King Is Not Above the LawThis sitting is about the single most important idea in Magna Carta: the king is not above the law28 min
- Sitting 2Ambition Against AmbitionThis sitting is about the Constitution's central design: power divided so that no single branch can dominate28 min
- Sitting 2The Most Important SentenceThis sitting is about the most important sentence in American history: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that…28 min
- Sitting 2Faction: Why a Big Country Might Be SaferThis sitting is Madison versus Brutus, not Madison versus 'parties I dislike28 min
- Sitting 2Four Clauses, Not One PosterLearn the Archives text, not a paraphrase28 min
- Sitting 3The Constitution Is a DesignThis sitting teaches the student that the Constitution is a design document28 min
- Sitting 3Your Day in CourtThis sitting is about due process — the idea that the government cannot take your freedom without following establish…28 min
- Sitting 3The Losers' ListThis sitting tells a surprising story: the Bill of Rights was the demand of the losing side28 min
- Sitting 3When Is It Okay to Overthrow the Government?This sitting is about the Declaration's most radical claim: when a government violates the rights it was created to p…28 min
- Sitting 3If Men Were AngelsChecks and balances is a vocabulary word28 min
- Sitting 3A Speech Is Not an AmendmentGettysburg lives inside this pack, not as the next figure28 min
- Sitting 4Who Was Not in the Room?This sitting applies the missing-voices skill from the thinking unit to the founding28 min
- Sitting 4Ask Before You TakeThis sitting is about consent — the idea that the government cannot take your money without asking28 min
- Sitting 4The Compromise That Counted People as NumbersThis sitting tackles one of the hardest truths in the Constitution: the three-fifths compromise28 min
- Sitting 4Who Did 'All Men' Include?This sitting tackles the hardest truth about the Declaration: the gap between 'all men are created equal' and who Jef…28 min
- Sitting 4Neither Force nor WillDo not teach 78 to ages 5–1028 min
- Sitting 4Who Counts as a Citizen1866 Civil Rights Act first; then the Constitution so a later Congress could not repeal it28 min
- Sitting 5The Republic Can ChangeThis sitting teaches the student that the Constitution was designed to change28 min
- Sitting 5Who Was Left OutThis sitting names the ugly truth: Magna Carta protected 'free men,' which was about 20% of England's population28 min
- Sitting 5The Court That Gave Itself the Power to Say NoThis sitting tells a surprising story: the Supreme Court's most important power — the ability to strike down unconsti…28 min
- Sitting 5The Passage They Cut OutThis sitting tells the story of the passage that was removed28 min
- Sitting 5The Argument That LostThis sitting is the cleanest proof that The Federalist is advocacy28 min
- Sitting 5Fair Process, Equal Protection — and Who Must Keep ThemFifth already bound the federal government28 min
- Sitting 6You Are a CitizenThis is the capstone for the young band28 min
- Sitting 6The Chain to Your RightsThis sitting is the capstone of the Magna Carta unit28 min
- Sitting 6The Constitution That Can ChangeThis sitting is about the Constitution's built-in capacity for change28 min
- Sitting 6The Words That Would Not DieThis sitting is the capstone of the Declaration unit28 min
- Sitting 6The Chain: From Charter to BriefCapstone28 min
- Sitting 6The Rest of the AmendmentDo not skip 2-5 to get to Brown28 min
World Languages
Subject hub- Sitting 1Climb the LadderThis sitting introduces the conversation ladder28 min
- Sitting 1Say It YourselfLanguage apps plus generative chat is how they skip speaking28 min
- Sitting 2Not a Subtitle CrutchThis sitting teaches the student that subtitles are a crutch28 min
- Sitting 2Listen Once, Speak TwiceHouse rule: mouth first28 min
- Sitting 3A Second Language Is a Second MindThis sitting teaches the student that a second language is a second mind28 min
- Sitting 3Three Sentences You Can SayMouth first28 min
- Sitting 4The Ongoing PracticeThis is the capstone for the young band28 min
- Sitting 4Ask, Don't PastePair with a sibling or you28 min
- Sitting 5Catch the Ghost-SpeakerMake the house rule explicit: labeled drill is ok28 min
- Sitting 6Speak First CapstoneThis closes the six-sitting young arc28 min
Mathematics
Subject hub- Sitting 1What Is a Proof?A proof is a path28 min
- Sitting 1Estimate Before the OraclePick a real quantity: phone battery, trip time, a word-problem from their book28 min
- Sitting 2The Missing StepA proof is a path28 min
- Sitting 3The Model Checks, You WalkThis sitting establishes the order: walk first, check second28 min
- Sitting 4The Blank Board TestThis is the reproducibility test28 min
- Sitting 5A Proof Is for Other PeopleA proof is a social act28 min
- Sitting 6Show the PathThis is the capstone28 min
Wisdom & Philosophy
Subject hub- Sitting 1The Boy with a Borrowed NameIdentity and control land hard at this age28 min
- Sitting 1The Unexamined LifeSocrates' most famous line: 'The unexamined life is not worth living28 min
- Sitting 1Can Machines Think?One object28 min
- Sitting 2The Notebook in the TentAnger and reputation are the live wires28 min
- Sitting 2The Method That Wants to LoseThe elenchus is the engine of the academy28 min
- Sitting 2The Room That Speaks ChineseThis is the most famous thought experiment in philosophy of AI28 min
- Sitting 3The Island Nobody WantedThe Seneca problem (wealth, Nero) can wait one sitting or get one honest sentence: he did not always live the letters28 min
- Sitting 3The Cave and the ScreenPlato's cave is the most famous image in philosophy28 min
- Sitting 3The Genie ProblemWiener's 1950 fable: you tell a genie 'make me healthy' and the genie kills you, because a corpse can't get sick28 min
- Sitting 4The Merchant and the StormThe temptation at this age is to reduce it to a motivational story28 min
- Sitting 4The Idea Behind the ThingThe forms are Plato's biggest idea — and the hardest to explain simply28 min
- Sitting 5The Only GoodThis is the most counterintuitive claim in Stoicism28 min
- Sitting 5Four Questions About EverythingAristotle's four causes are the foundation of explanation28 min
- Sitting 6The Seeds of ReasonThe concept is simple: every human has seeds of rational thinking that can grow into wisdom28 min
- Sitting 6The Right AmountAristotle's golden mean: virtue is the right amount between two extremes28 min
- Sitting 7The World CityThis is where idealism meets reality28 min
- Sitting 7The River You Can't Step In TwiceHeraclitus' most famous fragment: 'You cannot step into the same river twice28 min
- Sitting 8The Natural LifeThis is where Stoic ethics meets the naturalistic fallacy28 min
- Sitting 8Is the Ice Still Water?Parmenides is the hardest philosopher for young students28 min
- Sitting 9The Founder's ChoiceThe death is tricky28 min
- Sitting 9The World Is Made of PatternsPythagoras' claim: 'All is number28 min
- Sitting 10Everything Is Tiny BlocksDemocritus is the first materialist: everything is atoms moving in void28 min
Science
Subject hub- Sitting 1Guess, Measure, Then ArgueThis sitting adds the estimate28 min
- Sitting 1Hypothesis Before SearchSchool labs often skip this28 min
- Sitting 2The Wrong Unit Is the Wrong AnswerThis sitting teaches the student to check units, not just numbers28 min
- Sitting 3No Measurement Is ExactThis sitting builds on the little version28 min
- Sitting 4Fluent Numbers Can Be WrongThis sitting teaches the student that the model's confidence does not correlate with its accuracy on specific numbers28 min
- Sitting 5Calibrated TrustThis sitting teaches the student to calibrate trust to stakes28 min
- Sitting 6The Full MeasurementThis is the capstone for the young band28 min
Critical Thinking
Subject hub- Sitting 1Claim, Evidence, CheckBring a real paragraph: news headline, textbook, or model summary28 min
- Sitting 1Whose Room Is This?This sitting is about the room behind the tool28 min
- Sitting 2Steel-Man, Then SpeakUse a school issue, not a wound28 min
- Sitting 2The Picture Behind the QuestionA frame is the assumption baked into a question28 min
- Sitting 3What Would Change Your Mind?This is the vaccine against identity-fused opinions and against treating a model as an oracle28 min
- Sitting 3Who Is Not in the Room?This is the simplest version of the missing-voices idea28 min
- Sitting 4Define It Before You FightUse homework, comments, or a model paragraph28 min
- Sitting 5Fluency Is Not EvidenceBring a model summary or a tidy news blurb28 min
- Sitting 6One Claim, the Full LoopCapstone28 min