IDEAL ThinkersAn AI literacy and fluency curriculum

Curriculum map / Year 5

Year 5: Data, Training and Fairness

Big question: Where does AI learn from, and is it fair?

Before this, in Year 4, pupils studied Machines That Talk. Next, in Year 6, they move on to AI, Society and the Future.

Open the Year 5 folder in Google Drive

Lesson 1

Rules or examples?

Some programs follow rules we write; AI learns from examples.

CS

Lesson 2

Train the sorter

AI is trained on one set of data and tested on another.

CS, maths

Lesson 3

Whose is it anyway?

Training data comes from people's work and lives, so permission matters.

DC

Lesson 4

The Welcome Bot

Unbalanced data leads to unfair results.

CS, DC

Lesson 5

Climb the STAIR

Using AI to help you learn, not to learn for you.

DL

Lesson 6IDEAL Challenge

Train a class model

Building, testing and improving a real AI model.

CS, science

Lesson 6 is the IDEAL Challenge, where pupils pull the unit together to make or decide something. It doubles as the end of unit assessment task.