Trust Blueprint

This worksheet is designed for Grades 6, 7, and 8 to help students think deeply about what makes artificial intelligence trustworthy. Through structured reflection, explanation, ethical reasoning, and critical thinking, learners evaluate key trust factors such as accuracy, transparency, privacy, bias awareness, and accountability, then build a personalized framework for judging AI systems in real-world contexts.

Learning Goals

• Developing Evaluation Criteria (Grades 6-8)
  Students identify and prioritize multiple factors that influence whether an AI system should be trusted.
• Ethical Use of Technology
  Learners explore how values like fairness, privacy, and transparency shape responsible technology use.
• Explanation & Justification
  Students explain their choices clearly, using reasoning to support why certain trust factors matter more to them.
• Technology Literacy & AI Awareness
  Activities build understanding of how AI systems are evaluated beyond simple accuracy or usefulness.

Instructional Benefits

• Educator-Created Resource
  Designed by teachers to make abstract ethical concepts concrete and age-appropriate.
• Student-Centered Approach
  Encourages independent thinking and personal criteria-building rather than one “correct” answer.
• Flexible Classroom Use
  Works well for technology units, social studies discussions, ELA writing practice, or advisory lessons.
• Supports Higher-Order Thinking
  Promotes analysis, prioritization, justification, and reflection.

This printable worksheet helps students strengthen skills in critical thinking, ethical reasoning, explanation, and digital literacy while defining what trustworthy AI means to them personally. By building a Trust Blueprint, learners gain tools to evaluate technology thoughtfully and responsibly. It’s a meaningful, no-prep resource that works well in both classroom and homeschool settings.

This worksheet is part of our Would You Trust AI collection.