Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Primary and Secondary Schools
AI in Computer Science in Secondary Schools
Dataset
Card 01 – Machine Learning Deck
Dataset
The Dataset material opens the machine learning unit. It focuses on data preparation, which is essential for teaching artificial intelligence systems. In this activity, students take on the role of an alien detective agency. Their mission is to find out which alien family the young foundling — who suddenly appeared in their village — belongs to.
Lesson Overview
Lesson Length
45 minutes
Recommended Age
Children aged 11–15
Tools
Teacher: Sets of alien family cards, worksheets, presentation equipment, presentation slides.
Building Blocks
Dataset.
What Are the Students Learning?
A dataset is a collection of data prepared for training artificial intelligence systems.
Why Are They Learning This?
Goal of the Machine Learning Card Deck: To critically evaluate how AI systems make decisions.
How Do We Know They Have Learned It?
They explain the term dataset and describe the process of how it is created.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Remembering: Students become familiar with the term dataset
and understand its meaning.
Analysing: They identify key attributes within different alien families
and determine which features played a major role in classifying
the foundling.
Digital Competence
Communication and Collaboration.
Five Big Ideas
1-B-II Processing (Feature Extraction).
2-A-II Representation (Symbolic representations).
3-A-II Nature of Learning (Finding patterns in data).
