HUMANITIES
Role-play with AI as
Elizabeth I 👑
Pupils question an AI playing a historical figure, drawing on the sources you give it. Use it in history, geography and RE to push pupils to think harder, then read how each one argued.
Let pupils interrogate the past with an AI that sticks to your sources.
"Students can have conversations that prod their thinking and push their comprehension. They receive instant feedback on their work which is both encouraging and constructive, enabling them to make targeted improvements. And - they love it!"
“For students that struggled, Flint gently put them back on track. I could do that myself, but not at 9pm when students are reviewing for a quiz. Flint’s AI runs personalized review sessions for me, and I can follow up with a kid if they’re stuck.”
Tools built for humanities lessons.
- Upload your own sources.
- Text-to-speech and speech-to-text.
- Your own rules for Sparky.
- Feedback grounded in the sources.
✨ Try these activities made by humanities teachers!
Example use cases for humanities
History, geography and RE teachers use Flint to role-play conversations with people from the past, stage debates about contested questions, and work through case studies. You can upload documents, web pages and YouTube videos for Sparky to draw on, and set it to match your syllabus and each pupil's pace.
Social Studies3rd, 4th, 5th
Intro to Ancient Civilizations Role Play
Engage students in a role play to help them understand the life and culture of ancient civilizations and relate it back to their current lives.
Social Studies7th, 8th, 9th, 10th
Cuban Missile Crisis simulation as JFK
Have students play the role of JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and simulate decision making while responding to updates from AI role-playing as advisors.
Ethics9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Convincing AI Socrates to escape prison
Based off of 'Crito' (book by Plato), let students play the role of Crito and try to convince AI Socrates to escape prison.
Social Studies3rd, 4th
Virtual road trip: practicing cardinal directions
Give students interactive practice identifying cardinal directions through a realistic road trip scenario.
Built for humanities in England's schools
Flint's curriculum presets include the National Curriculum programmes of study for history and geography at Key Stages 1 and 2 and Key Stage 3, citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4, and the DfE's GCSE subject content for history, geography, religious studies, citizenship, ancient history and classical civilisation. RE at Key Stage 3 follows your locally agreed syllabus, so upload it and Sparky will work from that instead.
In history, pupils can put questions to a figure from a period on your scheme of work and then test what they heard against the sources you uploaded, which is the same skill a GCSE source question asks for. A Year 9 class studying the First World War could interview a journalist on the Western Front; a Year 10 class revising the Cold War could advise Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In geography, Sparky can take pupils through a case study on coastal erosion or urban change and question their use of data. In RE, pupils can debate an ethical question with Sparky arguing a position they have to answer.
You set the rules: which sources to use, what Sparky should avoid, and how much help to give. Every conversation is saved, so you can see how each pupil argued. UK schools use Flint's separate UK service at uk.flintk12.com, with pupil data stored in London.
