What Is AI
& Where Can We Find It?

1. Define AI

2. Four Things AI Does

3. Activity: Does It Have AI? Paired/Group worksheet

4. Activity: Design an AI 

   • All grades: Draw & explain who/what it helps and how it helps themselves or the community (individually or in pairs)

   • 2nd grade & above: Add information about what sensors it would use 

Vocabulary

• Artificial Intelligence: Machines that can make good decisions

Teacher Materials

• Teacher Slides

• Optional, if using: 

  • AI or NOT Worksheet (Google Drawing - Use Template to make a copy to use or to print)

  • AI or NOT Seesaw (Practice Mode Assessment)

Student Materials

• AI or Not Activity (may not need if doing this whole group or in Seesaw)

  • AI or NOT Worksheet

  • Scissors and Glue (depending on how the activity is completed)

• For Design an AI Activity:

  • Pencils (1 per student)

  • Crayons or colored pencils or markers

  • Paper

Teacher device for accessing:

• Slides

• AI or NOT Worksheet (Use Template to make a copy or print)

• AI or NOT Seesaw (Practice Mode Assessment)

• Websites

  • Bouncy Balls

  • Google (or other search engine)

1A-CS-02 Use appropriate terminology in identifying and describing the function of common physical components of computing systems (hardware).

1A-IC-16 Compare how people live and work before and after the implementation or adoption of new computing technology.

1B-IC-18 Discuss computing technologies that have changed the world, and express how those technologies influence, and are influenced by, cultural practices.

K-2.1-A-i Identify human senses and sensory organs.

K-2.1-B-i Give examples of intelligent vs. nonintelligent machines and discuss what makes a machine intelligent.

K-2.5-B-i Identify devices in daily life that use AI technologies.

3-5.1-A-ii Illustrate how computer sensing differs from human sensing.

3-5.5-B-i  Describe how AI-powered services are used in daily life.