High School AI-Ed · Conceptual Academy · A Public Benefit Company
They have to learn AI. It doesn't have to mean more screen time.
Understanding and Working with AI is a complete, semester-long program that brings high school students from AI literacy to fluency — and its spine is a printed book. Students read, keep a field journal by hand, and work with AI in small, deliberate doses. The defining subject of the screen age, taught mostly off the screen.
The screen-time paradox
Parents want less screen time. Students still have to learn AI.
That's a genuine dilemma — and, being a publishing house, it's one we're built to solve. We put the whole program in print. Students learn what AI is and how to work with it from the page and their own hand, turning to a screen only when a lesson calls for a deliberate experiment with a real AI model. Understanding comes first; the screen stays in its place.
Print-first
The complete curriculum lives in two paperback volumes — read, annotate, and think on paper.
A field journal, by hand
Students record experiments, drafts, and judgments in writing — the spine that turns reading into fluency.
AI in small doses
When it's time to work with AI, it's a structured lab with a purpose — not an open screen with no plan.
The Analogy Everyone Gets
Most every student takes Driver's Ed. It's time for AI-Ed.
We don't hand a teenager the keys to a car and wish them luck. We teach the rules, the risks, and the responsibility first. AI is a far more powerful machine. We can't hand AI to students without proper training.
AI-Ed is the course that's missing. It teaches students to drive the AI — before the AI starts driving them.
Does your school offer AI-Ed yet?
The Program
A complete semester course — eight chapters, two volumes.
Built specifically for high school students: what AI is and how it learns, how bias enters and why it matters, how algorithms make high-stakes decisions about real people, how to tell real from fake, and what an AI-powered future means for their lives and their democracy. It fits naturally within social studies, CTE, computer science, and language arts.
1 · Intelligence
Three kinds of intelligence, types of AI, first lab experiments.
2 · Teaching Machines
How AI learns by example, the knock-knock-joke journey, creativity.
3 · Prompt Engineering
Prompt structures, context and clarity, building simulations.
4 · AI Bias
What bias is, hidden patterns, cultural assumptions, the flattery problem.
5 · Magic from Math
Probability, AI's crystal ball, predictions, and the sentience question.
6 · Algorithms & People
High-stakes decisions — hiring, criminal justice, fairness.
7 · AI in Media
Real or fake, deepfakes, misinformation, democracy.
8 · An AI-Powered Future
The next 10 and 50 years — power, wealth, and control.
From AI Literacy to Fluency.
Getting it is the start. Working with it is the goal.
Program Overview
See the Program in Action
A quick look at what teachers experience and what students gain from this curriculum.
The Books · The Easiest Way In
The whole program, in two volumes.
The books aren't a sample of the program — they are the program: every core lesson, case study, reflection, AI lab, and the sustained literary project. And they aren't ordinary textbooks — QR codes throughout open the full video-lesson library, taught by the authors. Read a section, scan the code, watch the lesson.
Volume 1 — Foundations & Practice
Paperback · 258 pages · Chapters 1–4
$29.95$24.95
Volume 2 — Society & the Future
Paperback · 290 pages · Chapters 5–8
$29.95$24.95
6 × 9 in · Ships to the US · Printed on demand via IngramSpark, so it's always the latest edition.
The Online Program · A $195 Value
Add the platform when you're ready.
The online program has everything the books have — and more. It's ideal for a teacher leading a group, and it's the better path than books alone for a self-study learner. The full package — books and platform — is the best of all worlds.
In the books
✓ Core lessons
✓ Case studies
✓ Reflections
✓ AI labs
✓ The literary project
✓ QR codes to the lesson videos
The online program adds
+ Automated assessments with an automated gradebook
+ Chapter podcasts
+ Videos embedded right in each lesson
+ A full teacher's manual
+ A teacher guide for every lesson
+ State-standards alignment for every lesson
Two ways in — both free during our launch.
Chapter 1, free
Create a free account, enter Course ID UAI01Free, and Chapter 1 is yours — 5 PD hours, no credit card. Experience exactly what your students will.
The full program, free — just reach out
Want all eight chapters on the platform? During our launch it's complimentary. Write to us and we'll set you up — and get to know what you're building.
Email Support@ConceptualAcademy.com →What the sign-up looks like
Enter UAI01Free in the Course ID field, then Sign Up. You can leave the “vendor code” box unchecked.
Delivery partner
The online program runs on the Conceptual Academy platform, and for K–12 classrooms it's also delivered through our partner PocketLab Notebook — with auto-grading, reading-level adjustment, and lesson customization built in. View a sample lesson →
Why we're doing this
A public benefit company — and we mean it.
Conceptual Academy is a public benefit company, and access shouldn't be the barrier to understanding AI. That's not a slogan — it's how we operate:
Chapter 1 is free to anyone
No email, no card — sign up and start.
Homeschooling families learn free
Complimentary online-program access — the PDF pages, podcasts, assessments, and teacher guides.
Librarians get free teaching access
A free online account with the teaching resources, so a library can run the program.
Launch access is complimentary
The full online program, free right now to anyone who reaches out.
Proven Track Record
From a thirty-year publishing house.
Conceptual Academy is best known for its award-winning high school science programs in physics, chemistry, biology, and Earth science — trusted by students across the country. We're a publisher; making books is what we do. That's why this program exists in print, complete and classroom-ready, not as slideware.
Texas SBOE Approved
Among a select few programs approved by the Texas State Board of Education — a rigorous review that signals curricular quality.
Fully Standards Aligned
Alignment documentation for C3, NGSS, and state CTE pathways — ready for curriculum coordinators and administrators.
No AI Background Required
Clear, accessible, and experiential — designed so any teacher can pick it up and teach it confidently from day one.
Let's Talk
Three ways to begin.
Buy the books and start today, try Chapter 1 free on the platform, or write to us for complimentary access to the whole online program. Administrator exploring adoption? We'd love to walk you through it.