🎒 Activity Pack Drafts

Below you’ll find drafts and resources to create your own class room activities.

1. Pattern Detectives (Elementary / Middle)

Pack:

Objective: Students understand that AI recognizes patterns from examples.

Time: 30–40 minutes

ISTE Alignment: Knowledge Constructor; Computational Thinker

Materials:

• Printouts of animals (dogs, cats)
• Sorting cards (features: ears, paws, tails, whiskers)

Activity Steps:

1. Warm-up: Show pictures of dogs and ask students: what features make it a dog?
2. Sorting Game: Students act as “AI” — given new images, they decide if it’s a dog/cat.
3. Twist: Slip in a cat, fox or raccoon → show how AI can make mistakes.
4. Double Twist: Slip in a corgi without a tail

Reflection:

• How did you decide?
• Why do mistakes happen?
• What might happen if an AI mistake mattered in real life?

2. Predict the Next Word (Middle / High)

Pack:

Objective: Students simulate how language models predict words.

Time: 30 minutes

ISTE Alignment: Empowered Learner; Computational Thinker

Materials:

• Sentence starters on slips of paper (e.g., “At school I like to ___”)
• Whiteboard / digital doc

Activity Steps:

1. Game: One student starts a sentence, each classmate adds one word at a time.
2. Reveal: Compare with ChatGPT or another text predictor.
3. Discussion: Where does the AI get it right? Where does it sound strange?

Reflection:

• How is this like writing? How is it different?
• Why might AI make odd or biased predictions?

3. AI in My World Scavenger Hunt (All Grades)

Pack:

Objective: Students identify real-world AI applications.

Time: 1 class period

ISTE Alignment: Digital Citizen; Knowledge Constructor

Materials:

• Scavenger hunt worksheet
• Phones/tablets (optional for photos)

Activity Steps:

1. Intro: Brainstorm AI examples (voice assistants, search engines, Netflix).
2. Hunt: Students find AI in their world — school, home, apps, community.
3. Share: Class creates a collective AI map on the board.

Reflection:

• Which AI was most surprising?
• Was any AI hidden or invisible?
• What might be good/less good about AI in those areas?
• Is there a socioeconomic divide in peoples access to AI?
• Are there personal preferences where people do not want AI?
• Are there privacy concerns?

4. Moral Machine: Ethical Choices (Middle / High)

Pack:

Objective: Students explore ethical dilemmas in AI.

Time: 45 minutes

ISTE Alignment: Digital Citizen; Global Collaborator

Materials:

• MIT Moral Machine (online) or printed scenarios
• The moral machine tends to be grim e.g. car out of control kill X or kill Y scenarios
• The provided pack contains alternative scenarios, but do review
• Reflection worksheet

Activity Steps (using the moral machine):

1. Set up: Present a self-driving car dilemma.
2. Choices: Students vote on outcomes.
3. Explore: Run the Moral Machine demo in small groups.
4. Debrief: Compare class results.

Activity Steps (using the provided pack):

1. In teachers setup steps in pack

Reflection:

• How did you make decisions?
• Should AI make moral choices? Why or why not?

5. Truth or AI? (High School)

Pack:

Objective: Students learn to evaluate AI-generated misinformation.

Time: 40 minutes

ISTE Alignment: Knowledge Constructor; Digital Citizen

Materials:

• Mix of AI-generated and real news articles/headlines
• Worksheets for analysis

Activity Steps:

1. Challenge: Students read short headlines and guess if it’s AI or real.
2. Analysis: Mark clues (weird phrasing, too-perfect details).
3. Extension: Compare to fact-checking sites.

Reflection:

• How easy was it to be fooled?
• What strategies can we use to check truth online?

6. Creative AI: Art or Not? (All Grades, adapted by level)

Pack:

Objective: Students explore AI and creativity.

Time: 1 class period

ISTE Alignment: Innovative Designer; Creative Communicator

Materials:

• AI art/music tool (e.g., Craiyon, AI music generator)
• Human-made samples
• Worksheets for comparison

Activity Steps:

1. Showcase: Display AI-generated vs. human-created work.
2. Guessing Game: Students try to tell which is which.
3. Create: Students use a simple AI tool to make art/music.
4. Discuss: What makes something “creative”?

Reflection:

• Can AI be creative, or just copy?
• What role do humans play in creativity?