Privacy and data use in artificial intelligence gives Grade 6 Computer Science students a practical way to examine what AI-powered apps collect, why personal information matters, and how to make safer decisions online. Through realistic digital scenarios, students explore data collection, consent, permissions, privacy settings, and responsible information sharing.

Rather than treating AI as a technology that should automatically be trusted, this worksheet encourages students to question what an app requests and consider whether that information is necessary for its purpose. Students connect everyday technology use with informed choices about digital privacy.

What Students Explore

The lesson focuses on the relationship between artificial intelligence and personal data. Students examine how AI tools may use search terms, typed messages, device information, and app activity to provide features such as recommendations, speech recognition, and answers to questions.

Key concepts include:

• Data collection: Identify information AI-powered apps and websites may gather.
• Privacy: Explain why personal information needs protection when using digital tools.
• Consent: Recognize the importance of understanding a request before agreeing to it.
• Permissions: Evaluate whether an app's requested access is appropriate for its intended task.
• Privacy settings: Explore how available controls may limit information collection or sharing.
• Responsible AI use: Choose safer ways to interact with unfamiliar AI systems.

Activities That Apply the Concepts

Students work through a dialogue, an answer-matching activity, a vocabulary-based cloze passage, and a labeled diagram. A reading passage, Understanding Privacy in AI Apps, explains how data collection, consent, permissions, and privacy decisions relate to everyday digital tools.

Multiple-choice questions and true-or-false statements reinforce the reading, while short-answer responses ask students to apply privacy principles to realistic situations. The extended-response task challenges students to evaluate a proposed AI-powered study app and explain how classmates can protect their information before deciding whether to use it.

Classroom Use and Teacher Support

Use this Grade 6 AI privacy worksheet during a Computer Science lesson on artificial intelligence, digital responsibility, or safe technology choices. It can support individual practice, guided reading discussions, written reflection, or a classroom conversation about whether an app needs the information it requests.

The resource includes the student worksheet and a separate Teacher Guide PDF with learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes. These notes provide a starting point for explaining unfamiliar privacy terms and prompting students to justify their decisions with clear reasoning.

What Is Included

• Student worksheet on privacy and data use in AI-powered apps.
• Reading passage with comprehension and application questions.
• Dialogue, matching, cloze passage, and labeled diagram activities.
• Multiple-choice, true-or-false, short-answer, and extended-response tasks.
• Separate Teacher Guide PDF with learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes.

This printable computer science resource helps students connect AI concepts to meaningful privacy decisions: questioning unnecessary requests, avoiding the disclosure of sensitive details, reviewing permissions, and seeking trusted adult guidance when a request is unclear. The resource uses a general curriculum framework rather than naming a specific standards alignment.