Five kids’ AI activities to prevent the summer slide

What AI can do to help prevent the summer slide

Eight weeks off from school can degrade a child’s ability to recollect and retain knowledge from the previous year. Consequently, when they start a new year at school, it can be difficult for them to keep up with lesson plans: their participation and academic performance can slip and it may prompt teachers to need to review and recap old information. As a result, your student may fall behind.

With the help of AI, it’s easy to instruct them on information from the previous year. Some ways you can use AI to help prevent the summer slide include:

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Ask for summer reading suggestions

Summer reading books help maintain comprehension, vocabulary, critical thinking, and grammar skills. If your school doesn’t provide a summer reading list, you can use AI-powered software to ask for reading recommendations appropriate for their age group, reading level, and learning goals. Your child can request for novels in specific genres to foster their interest in reading.

Create DIY science experiments

AI can help design DIY science experiments, so you don’t have to spend time searching for them online. For elementary and middle school students, this is a great way to build a baseline understanding of the scientific method. Summer experiments help them establish hypothesis and interpret results in a fun, interactive setting—such as building a volcano, creating a battery powered by a potato, and more!

Set learning-based goals

Learning based goals are a critical tool to help prevent knowledge loss. Review your child’s lesson plans from the previous year and see what information they learned. Ultimately, your summer learning goals will reflect last year’s, just to ensure they return to school prepared.

Practice math problems

Generate practice math problems appropriate for you children’s grade level. AI software can create numerous problems and practice sheets. You can create enough for weekly practice quizzes so they can learn all summer long.

Logic puzzles

Logic puzzles are a fun way to stimulate your children’s brain. They enhance cognitive skills like memory, promote logical reasoning, and problem-solving abilities. AI can generate logic puzzles from your prompts and specifications. Alternatively, it can create logic puzzles without additional input and take the creative reins.

The summer slide is an avoidable phenomenon; if you take active role in your child’s summer learning, you can make sure they retain information and stay on track for the next school year. Keep your child’s academic future on track with more ways to use everyday AI.