Classroom Activities

On this page, you will find an overview and information about the various teaching materials on the topic of AI. The material is available as Open Educational Resources for use in the classroom.

CA – Wanted AI
Can you identify the AI applications? Which of the depicted devices and everyday applications involve AI systems? Assign the picture cards to one of the two groups accordingly. Once you have classified all the picture cards, check your solution using the answer sheet. The students’ mappings are discussed in the group afterwards. Some applications of […]
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CA – Good Monkey, Bad Monkey!
Which monkey bites, and which doesn’t? Decision trees are easy-to-understand machine learning algorithms that can be used to illustrate supervised learning. Based on training data, the students create a decision tree to differentiate between biting and non-biting monkeys and then evaluate the quality of their model. The accompanying material explains how supervised learning works and […]
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CA – Festival Hide’n’Seek
Can you keep track of the festival chaos? Big data and AI systems are closely related. On the one hand, large volumes of data are required to train AI algorithms, while on the other hand, the volumes of data described by the term big data can no longer be processed using conventional data processing methods. […]
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CA – Crypto-Battle
Who decodes faster? AI systems or conventional algorithms? Data-based AI systems work differently from ” classic” algorithms: Instead of all elements of behavior being fixed by a programmer, the algorithm of a data-based AI system is trained using large amounts of data. This means that the algorithm analyzes and extracts patterns and correlations in the […]
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CA – Once Upon A Time
The development of AI Systems In this activity, the students solve bandolinos on historical facts in the field of artificial intelligence. The bandolinos are printed out, folded as marked and glued together. The bandolinos are then cut out; the holes for facts and questions can easily be made with a perforator. Use thick paper (200g) […]
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CA – Reality Taboo
How an AI system sees the world To understand how an AI system ‘sees’ and processes the world, the hands-on activity Reality Taboo is well suited. In pairs, students describe given images using only words from the areas of geometric shapes, line types, colours and direction and position information. This restriction ensures that it is […]
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CA – Artist Unknown
Who is the artist? With Dall-E 2 (https://openai.com/index/dall-e-2/), Craiyon (https://www.craiyon.com/) or other AI-operated image generators, it is now possible to create realistic images of objects, landscapes and even people. This activity demonstrates the difficulty of distinguishing digital products created with generative AI systems from real-life representations. Based on this, problems such as deepfakes or fake […]Who is the artist? With Dall-E 2 (https://openai.com/index/dall-e-2/), Craiyon (https://www.craiyon.com/) or other AI-operated image generators, it is now possible to create realistic images of objects, landscapes and even people. This activity demonstrates the difficulty of distinguishing digital products created with generative AI systems from real-life representations. Based on this, problems such as deepfakes or fake […]
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CA – Pandemic
How do you prevent the outbreak of pandemics? This box presents an application area of AI systems. Research and science are working on using AI systems for the targeted prediction of pandemics. Students can try out for themselves which factors can be included and how they can be evaluated and thus take on the role […]
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CA – (Dis)Like
What will your future life be like with AI systems? AI systems have already changed our everyday lives and will continue to do so. For example, AI-supported learning apps are used in the same way as image processing and image recognition programs with AI functions or route planners that use AI algorithms. In addition, language […]
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CA – Oracle Cops
AI systems hunt down criminals AI systems designed to assist in the fight against crime have been in use in many German cities for several years. The systems evaluate various demographic factors and police data. They make recommendations on where it makes sense to increase police presence to prevent crime. In this activity, students work […]
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Name	Topic	Competencies
Artist Unknown	Image and/or video generation
Crypto Battle	Data evaluation
Festival Hide’n’Seek	Big Data, Data Selection
Good Monkey, Bad Monkey	Decision Tree
No Chance	Data Evaluation, Prediction, Bias
Ocean Waste	Data Evaluation, Prediction, Bias
Once Upon A Time	Historical Background
Oracle Cops	Prediction, Bias
Pandemic	Data Evaluation, Prediction, Bias
Reality Taboo	Knowledge Representation
Wanted: AI	AI in everyday life

Classroom Activities

CA – Wanted AI

CA – Good Monkey, Bad Monkey!

CA – Festival Hide’n’Seek

CA – Crypto-Battle

CA – Once Upon A Time

CA – Reality Taboo

CA – Artist Unknown

CA – Pandemic

CA – (Dis)Like

CA – Oracle Cops