Year 9 are studying social engineering and a question many families now face: can an AI assistant be trusted to tell you whether an email is a scam? The teacher has written twelve fictional emails with made-up senders and companies, each showing its links' real web addresses in brackets: a parcel redelivery notice, a password reset, a school trip reminder, a prize win and others, some genuine and some phishing. Students first judge each one themselves with the class checklist of red flags, then paste it into Gemini on their school-approved accounts, with no personal details, and ask whether it is phishing and why. For every reason Gemini gives, they check it against the email itself, such as whether the sender's domain really differs from the company name or whether the link text matches the address, and record in a shared Google Sheet whether Gemini was right, right for the wrong reasons, or wrong. The class ends with the pooled sheet on the board, looking at the emails where Gemini and the class disagreed, deciding who the evidence supports, and writing a one-paragraph answer to the opening question.
Tools: Gemini for Education, Google Sheets Nine ideas for your own version in Generate
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