👩‍🏫 Teacher Overview

• Grade Band: Middle (6–8), High (9–12)
• Objective: Students simulate how AI predicts the next word in a sentence, then compare with an actual AI tool.
• Time Needed: 30 minutes
• ISTE Standards:
• Empowered Learner: Students leverage technology to demonstrate learning.
• Computational Thinker: Students understand how models predict based on patterns.
• Key Vocabulary: prediction, probability, context, bias.

📦 Materials

• Sentence starter slips (provided below as printable set)
• Whiteboard, projector, or shared digital doc
• (Optional) Access to ChatGPT or another predictive text tool

📝 Teacher Steps

1. Hook (5 min)

• Write on the board:

“At school I like to ___”

• Ask: “What do you think comes next? Why?”
• Explain: This is how AI “thinks” — it guesses the next word based on what’s most likely.

2. Game: Human Language Model (10 min)

• Students sit in a circle or work in small groups.
• One student reads a sentence starter.
• Going around, each adds one word at a time.
• Example: “At school I like to eat pizza with my science teacher.”

3. Compare with AI (10 min)

• Enter the same sentence starter into ChatGPT (or predictive text on phones).
• For better results prefix the sentence with
• “You are a grade <X> student playing a game of what comes next, please complete the following sentence”
• This is providing the AI with context
• Show what the AI predicts.
• Discuss: Did it sound more natural, silly, or biased?

4. Discussion & Reflection (5–10 min)

• How was your group’s sentence like an AI’s?
• How was it different?
• Why might AI sometimes produce strange or biased answers?

🧒 Student Worksheet

Name: _____________________

Date: _____________________

Part 1 – Group Game

We started with: ___________________________

Our sentence became: ________________________

Part 2 – Compare with AI

AI predicted: ____________________________

How similar or different was it?

Part 3 – Reflection

1. Did the AI sound natural? ___ Yes / No
2. What made it different from your group’s answer?
3. Why might an AI prediction sometimes be biased or unusual?

✂️ Printable Sentence Starters

Cut into slips for students to draw at random:

1. At school I like to ___
2. My favorite thing to do is ___
3. When I grow up I want to ___
4. Yesterday I saw a ___
5. If I could invent something, it would ___
6. The best food in the world is ___
7. A robot should never ___
8. If I had a superpower, I would ___
9. My teacher always says ___
10. The world would be better if ___