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💻 8th Grade · Computer Science2-IC-21Unit 4: Impacts of computing

Artificial intelligence

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🎯 Objective: Students explain how AI learns from data and where bias comes from.

Lesson outline

  1. Teachable machine demo.
  2. Discuss bias.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one risk.

Lesson 2 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

2-IC-21

CSTA K–12 Computer Science Standards (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Discuss tradeoffs of technology
  • Discuss AI, bias and privacy

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Coding🎹 Touch typing course⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Impacts of computing”

  1. Tradeoffs of technology
  2. Artificial intelligence
  3. Privacy and data

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