2026 Fall Pilot Program: Buy PD, Get Curriculum Free!
AI 360° is aligned to the CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards, with emphasis on Impacts of Computing, Algorithms and Programming, and AI literacy within our full K-12 AI literacy curriculum. Students experience the intersection of AI and creativity in a hands-on context appropriate for any grade level—exploring AI's role in the creative process, applying event-driven block-based programming, and practicing prompt engineering.
Provides pacing suggestions, key vocabulary, discussion prompts, and differentiation tips to support student choice while ensuring alignment with learning goals.
These student-facing slides walk students through each phase of the project and include embedded prompts, key concepts, and workbook activities.
Aligned to the project's learning objectives and includes grading criteria for creativity, collaboration, and technical proficiency.
Helps teachers support students, model expectations, demonstrate creative possibilities and accurate use of the code.
Supports debugging during instruction and offers a reference point for students building their own projects.
The best student AI projects have students build something with AI, not just read about it: generating and refining a virtual environment, training a simple model and testing where it fails, creating an AI character and scripting its behavior, or using AI to extend a creative project. Hello World's AI 360° is a free set of AI student projects for grades 3-12 where students build virtual worlds with AI and learn how it works in the process. Teachers can start with a free account.
Used well, AI gives students instant feedback, lets them explore ideas quickly, and personalizes practice. Used badly, it replaces the thinking that produces learning. The difference is AI literacy: students who understand how AI works use it as a tool to think with. AI 360° is designed around that principle, with students directing the AI rather than copying from it.
Homework help, writing, research, image generation, and, increasingly, coding. Most of it happens without instruction. Structured projects like AI 360° give students a supervised space to learn what AI is good at, where it fails, and how to use it responsibly, inside a platform with built-in AI safety layers rather than on open commercial tools.
Yes. AI 360° starts at grade 3, with age-appropriate projects where students build and customize virtual worlds using AI. Younger students learn that AI generates things from patterns, that it can be wrong, and that they're the ones in charge of the result. It pairs with Hello World's elementary AI literacy curriculum.
High schoolers can go further: designing complex virtual environments with AI, scripting AI-driven characters, analyzing where AI outputs went wrong and why, and connecting projects to career and ethical questions. AI 360° scales to grade 12, and students who want to build AI itself continue into Data Science & AI, where they train models in Python.
Yes. Teachers can create a free Hello World account and start using AI 360° projects with their students. Districts that want the full AI literacy and computer science curriculum with professional development can request a pilot.
No. The projects include teacher-facing background and step-by-step lesson plans, and Hello World's professional development is available for district partners.
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