Botley
The Thinking Bot
Quiet, clever, follows the rules. Shows how AI makes decisions.
Dr. Age AI / Bonus Pack
Welcome, Junior AI Explorer!
You found the code from Meet the AI Bots! — your printable activity pack is ready.
Meet the AI Bots! Bonus Pack
8 printable worksheets + 9 explorer certificates — extras for readers. Print as many copies as you need for personal, family, or single-classroom use.
Kids should ask a grown-up before downloading or printing files.
Extra challenges for ages 10 and up
Finished the book and hungry for more? These stretch activities go a step further, for older explorers or anyone who wants a tougher challenge. They use the same no-screen approach: paper, pencil, and thinking.
- ✓Design a decision tree. Pick an everyday choice, like what to wear tomorrow, and map every IF-THEN branch a bot would need to make it. How many rules before it can handle rain, cold, and a birthday party at once?
- ✓Be the training data. Draw ten cats and ten dogs, then swap with a friend. Which drawings would confuse a computer, and why? This is exactly how AI ends up mistaking a burrito for a puppy.
- ✓Prompt like an engineer. Write the worst possible question, then rewrite it three times, each version clearer than the last. Compare what changed. Clear thinking makes clear prompts.
- ✓Spot the bias. If a bot only ever saw pictures of one kind of house, what would it get wrong about yours? Write down three things it would miss.
- ✓Teach it back. Explain how AI learns to someone younger than you, using no technical words at all. Explaining is the real test of understanding.
More advanced worksheets are being added here over time. Ask us to keep you posted when new ones land.
Meet the Bots
Your guides through the world of AI — each one in charge of a big idea.
Chatzo
The Talking Bot
Never stops chatting — and occasionally gets things hilariously wrong.
Pixi
The Seeing Bot
Sees everything, one tiny pixel at a time. Loves patterns.
Learno
The Baby Bot
Brand new and learning everything for the first time — just like you once did!
For parents & teachers
Short chapters, big conversations. A few ways to get the most from the book:
- ✓Read together or solo — chapters are short by design: read-aloud for younger explorers, independent reading for ages 9 and up.
- ✓Talk about it — each chapter's recap makes a great dinner-table question: "Where did you spot AI today?"
- ✓Do the worksheets on paper — the activities are deliberately screen-free.
- ✓Practice the safety rules out loud — check surprising answers, keep personal info private, ask a trusted adult. Your brain is the boss!
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The bonus pack is designed to go with Meet the AI Bots!, out now on Amazon.
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