Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Digital Storytelling: Empowering Young Creators in a Summer STEM Camp

Abstract

This lesson engages students in grades 3–6 in creating digital stories enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), encouraging logical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. Using a structured, project-based format, students developed multimedia-rich narratives with support from AI tools for idea generation, writing refinement, and visual content creation. The students explored STEM role models, wrote story drafts, and edited videos using WeVideo. The project concluded with the production of AI-supported digital stories, assessed through a structured rubric