It is December. A student has just put the principal's face on a synthetic Santa and read eleven classmates' names out of it, and your class has nine minutes before the party. What do you actually say? Not a lecture about AI - a decision, out loud, with reasons.

This pack is ten winter and holiday moments that middle-schoolers really hit in December, each one built as a vote before it is built as a lesson. Students thumbs-up AGREE, sideways STEER or down STOP, defend it, and only then see the suggested landing. Five of the ten have no clean right answer on purpose: the arguing is the standard being practised.

The ten scenarios - bulk-writing 28 holiday cards; a deepfake Santa that singles out a student; AI newsletter art signed as a student's own; a chatbot explaining Hanukkah to a grandmother who knows better; a "free gift wizard" that asks for the home address; a cloned pop-star voice for the candy-gram ad; an AI-drafted thank-you note to Grandma that lands perfectly (the one clean yes); the $2 shipping scam that already has 300 comments; a detector that wrongly accuses a clean writer; and a translated invitation for a new family with the wrong date in it.

What is in the download

• 30 editable slides (.pptx): the five-fact anchor, the AGREE/STEER/STOP framework, ten scenario slides with three choices each, ten reveal slides with the reasoning and a talk prompt, six tells that a machine made it, a sort activity, an agree-unsure-disagree slider, a create-your-own scenario task, exit tickets and a credits slide with the license.

• 9-page printable twin in both Letter and A4: the same ten scenarios as cut-out cards with writing lines, a cut-and-glue sort mat, a verdict log with a word bank, six exit tickets, the answer key with discussion prompts, a look-fors rubric and a minute-by-minute 45-minute plan.

• README with the fastest way to get the deck onto a smartboard and the winter swap for classes celebrating something else.

No prep, no accounts, no district permission. Upload the .pptx to your Drive and open it with Google Slides - the conversion keeps every text box editable, so you can drop in your own students' names. PowerPoint and Keynote open the file directly. Nothing here needs a student login, a subscription or a device: the printable version is the whole lesson on paper.

Why teachers keep this one in December - it is the only AI lesson in my room that does not need me to be the expert. The situations are already in their group chats. The vocabulary they take out of it - consent, likeness, disclosure, hallucination, minimize, verify - is the vocabulary they need in January when the real prize scams start circulating.

Also from this shop: AI Bias Detective Task Cards (the printable twin of the AI-bias angle), Phishing Lab, Privacy Lab and Password Lab (the playable scam simulations with a Sheets tracker), and Spooky Inbox for the Halloween version of the same engine.

License: one classroom, unlimited students and years. Please do not upload it to a public site or resell it. Answers may be photocopied for your students.

Want to try one before you commit? The free three-scenario sampler is in this shop - search "Winter AI Ethics FREE Slides".