Description

🤖 How Smart Is That Bot?! Activity Pack

Introduce your students to AI decision-making in a fun, tech-free way. This unplugged activity pack gives Grades 5–7 a clear, accessible look at how bots learn, how data shapes decisions, and where bias can appear in AI systems. Each printable activity reinforces key ideas found in Code.org’s “How AI Makes Decisions” unit while staying flexible enough for any classroom.

Students explore AI concepts through vocabulary practice, a true/false trivia game, and a guided journal reflection. Everything is screen-free, beginner friendly, and ready to use for warm-ups, sub plans, small-group work, STEM Fridays, or enrichment days.

Activity Time

~10–15 minutes per activity
Flexible for early finishers, pacing breaks, or quick mini-lessons

Students Will Practice:

-Applying AI and machine learning vocabulary
-Understanding how data, features, and training examples work
-Exploring prediction, accuracy, and bias
-Thinking critically about how computers “learn”
-Recognizing how training data affects fairness
-Explaining AI processes in writing and discussion
-Practicing close reading through the included passage
-Engaging respectfully in classroom conversations about technology

What’s Included:

-AI reading passage: “How AI Learns to Make Decisions”
-Crossword puzzle reviewing key vocabulary
-True/False trivia game with teacher instructions
-Robot-themed game board
-Trivia slips with AI statements
-Journal reflection page with writing prompts
-Extra lined journal page
-Answer keys where applicable
-Tech-free format that works in any classroom

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Disclaimer

This resource is not affiliated with or endorsed by Code.org. Mention of their lessons is for reference only.