I open-sourced a K-12 AI lesson library — and you don't need to code to contribute

A few weeks ago we realized something frustrating: there's no central place where K-12 educators can share AI-powered lessons with each other.

There are blog posts. There are PDFs locked behind paywalls. There are Twitter threads that disappear. But no open, forkable, living library that any teacher can add to.

So we built one.

What it is

Emerging Rule Community is an open GitHub repository of AI-powered lesson plans for K-12 educators, researchers, and builders. Free. Bilingual (English & Spanish). And — crucially — no coding experience required to contribute.

👉 github.com/Emerging-Rule/community

What's already inside

A math lesson where students catch AI making arithmetic mistakes (grades 3–5)
A bilingual story-writing lesson using AI as a "story robot" (K–2, English/Spanish)
A climate science debate lesson where students fact-check AI claims (grades 6–8)
A digital citizenship lesson on authorship and AI voice (grades 9–12)
A bilingual number sense lesson taught entirely in Spanish (K–3)

Every lesson includes grade level, subject, sample AI prompts, differentiation notes, and a CC BY 4.0 license.

Why GitHub?

Because it's version-controlled, forkable, and free forever. A teacher in Puerto Rico can fork this repo, adapt a lesson for their classroom, and send it back. A researcher can cite a specific commit. A curriculum designer can submit a pull request.
And if GitHub feels intimidating — there's an email fallback. Send us your lesson and we add it for you.

How to contribute

Fork the repo
Copy lesson-template.md
Fill it in (it's just a text file)
Open a pull request

Or email [e-mail] with subject line [Community Lesson].
What we need most right now
We have 5 open "good first issues":

A Science lesson for grades 3–5
A Social Studies / History lesson for middle school
A Computer Science lesson (any grade)
A Spanish-only version of our number sense lesson
An AI + Education reading list for teachers

If you've ever built something interesting in an ed context — a lesson, a prompt library, a workshop template — this is the place for it.

About Emerging Rule: We build AI-powered learning tools for K-12. Our flagship product LevelShip is a K-12 adaptive AI learning platform. We've been recognized by Innostars, 1776, StartEd, and Singularity University, and featured in Telemundo, Metro News, and eLearning Industry.

This repo is our way of giving back to the educator community that's shaped everything we've built.

⭐ Star the repo if you find it useful: github.com/Emerging-Rule/community
🌱 First contribution? Look for the good first issue label.
📧 Questions? [e-mail]