How AI Can Help With Your Sources List (But Check It!)

End-of-lesson check

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1. Which item is most likely to be found in a bibliography?

   1. A list of fun facts about your favorite animal
   2. A list of all the books and websites you used for a report
   3. A set of math problems you solved
   4. A collection of pictures you drew for class

2. What happens when you ask an AI to 'give me 3 books about penguins'?

   1. The AI might make up fake book titles that don't really exist
   2. The AI will refuse to help because it doesn't know penguins
   3. The AI will always give you the exact same three books
   4. The AI will automatically find books your library has in stock

3. What should you ALWAYS do after AI formats one of your sources?

   1. Post the source on social media
   2. Ask the AI for more sources to add
   3. Thank the AI and turn in your work immediately
   4. Check that the book or website actually exists

4. What is a citation?

   1. A kind of bookmark for libraries
   2. A type of robot that reads books
   3. A way to show where you found your information
   4. A mathematical formula for counting sources

5. Which job is AI SAFE to do with your sources?

   1. Inventing website addresses that don't exist
   2. Creating new book titles about your topic
   3. Making up author names for your report
   4. Formatting a real book into MLA style

6. What does it mean to 'verify' a source?

   1. Copy the source into your notebook
   2. Make sure the source really exists and has the information you need
   3. Read the source out loud to check for errors
   4. Ask a friend if they like the source

7. A classmate asks AI for '5 books about ancient Egypt' and gets back titles that can't be found anywhere. What happened?

   1. The classmate typed the question wrong
   2. The library's computer is broken
   3. The AI invented fake books that don't exist
   4. Ancient Egypt doesn't have any real books about it

8. What is the safest way to use AI for your bibliography?

   1. Let AI choose which books to include in your report
   2. Ask AI to find sources for your topic
   3. Find a real source yourself, then ask AI to format it
   4. Ask AI to create sources that sound interesting

9. What could happen if you turn in a report with a fake book in your bibliography?

   1. The library will name a new book after you
   2. Your teacher might check and give you a failing grade
   3. Your report will be published in a magazine
   4. Nothing bad will happen — teachers never check

10. Why can't you trust AI to give you real book titles?

    1. AI always tells the truth about everything
    2. AI doesn't have access to every library in the world and can guess wrong
    3. AI is connected to the internet but doesn't read books
    4. AI only works on weekdays

11. What does formatting a source mean?

    1. Changing the words the author wrote
    2. Making the source look fancy with colors
    3. Printing the source on special paper
    4. Putting source information into a specific style (like MLA)

12. What should you do if you can't find a book that AI listed in your citation?

    1. Remove it from your bibliography and find a different real source
    2. Use it anyway and hope no one notices
    3. Ask the AI to fix the book so it exists
    4. Add more fake books to make it look good

13. What is the main message of this topic?

    1. AI can help format sources but you must check that they're real
    2. You should always trust what AI tells you about books
    3. You don't need to cite sources in reports
    4. AI can find better books than your library

14. Your teacher asks for sources in MLA style. What does that mean?

    1. You need to format your sources in a specific way teachers use
    2. You must write your sources in all capital letters
    3. MLA is a type of book you should use
    4. MLA style means making your sources look like movie titles

15. Which is an example of AI helping with sources the RIGHT way?

    1. You ask AI to make up interesting books about your topic
    2. You ask AI to list books that don't exist yet
    3. You ask AI to create fake authors for your report
    4. You find a real book, then ask AI to put it in MLA format