For curriculum leaders
How NASCA maps to the framework your school already runs.
Our 11 STEAM streams are explicitly mapped to nine major K-12 frameworks. Use this page when you write your annual academic plan, prepare for an inspection, or pitch the programme to your board.
The NASCA AI K–12 vertical
Six technical domains. One spiral that revisits and deepens.
AI is no longer a specialist pursuit — it is the defining technical literacy of this generation. NASCA introduces foundational AI from Grade 3 and runs a formal vertical from Grade 6 to Grade 12. The vertical is organised around six technical domains, with deliberate bridges between them so every concept is revisited at higher resolution as students mature.
AI Awareness
What AI is, where it lives, and what it can and cannot do. Real-world examples from search, recommendation, vision and speech — calibrated to age.
Perception & Representation
How machines see, hear and represent the world. Pixels, audio waves, embeddings and the shift from raw data to features a model can use.
Data Science & Statistics
Collect, clean, summarise and visualise. Distributions, correlation, sampling and the discipline of asking what the data does — and does not — support.
Machine Learning Models
Supervised and unsupervised learning, evaluation, and the families of models students train themselves — from decision trees to neural networks.
Natural Interaction & Generative AI
Language models, prompt design, multimodal interaction. Building chat assistants, interpreting outputs critically and learning when to trust them.
Responsible AI
Bias, fairness, privacy, attribution and societal impact — woven through every grade so judgement matures alongside technical capability.
Parallel tracks
Data Science and AI run side by side.
Students build statistical literacy and modelling capability on parallel tracks — so by the time they reach generative and deep-learning content in senior school, the underlying data discipline is already second nature.
Bridge architecture
Spiral recurrence — every concept returns at higher resolution.
A child can join NASCA at any grade and be on-ramped through structured, mentor-supported recap. Concepts return year after year with greater rigour — pattern recognition in Grade 2 becomes feature engineering in Grade 8 becomes representation learning in Grade 11.
Coverage matrix
Full coverage · Partial coverage
| NASCA Stream | CBSE (India) NEP 2020 aligned | ICSE (India) ICSE syllabus | IB PYP/MYP Inquiry units | Cambridge IGCSE Stage 1–9 | MOE (UAE) Year 1–12 | KHDA / ADEK School inspection ready | KSA Vision 2030 MoE aligned | Common Core (US) K–12 standards | NGSS (US) Science standards |
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| AI & Robotics | |||||||||
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| Maker / Engineering | |||||||||
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| Digital Citizenship | |||||||||
| Sustainability | |||||||||
| Arts & Storytelling | |||||||||
| Entrepreneurship |
Sample documents
Scope & Sequence — full PDFs
One downloadable document per band. Each shows the term-by-term progression of outcomes, anchor projects and assessment moments.