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Grades
4 - 8
1
-
2
Hours

Recycling Sorter

AI
Coding
Scratch
Use artificial intelligence to recognize types of waste and help sort recycling.

Concepts at a Glance

  • Have discussions surrounding climate change and recycling.
  • Learn how to teach an AI machine, and what happens if the machine doesn’t have enough data input.  
  • Practice block coding with the teachable machine.  
  • Create a recycling sorter using these two programs.  

Curriculum Connections

Applied Technologies

  • Select, and as needed learn about, appropriate tools and technologies to extend their capability to complete a task
  • Identify the personal, social, and environmental impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of the choices they make about technology use
  • Identify how the land, natural resources, and culture influence the development and use of tools and technologies

Grades 6+

  • Design can be responsive to identified needs.
  • Complex tasks require different technologies and tools at different stages.
  • Visual programming  

Materials

*Webcams are not strictly required, but are highly recommended

Activity Instructions

Video tutorials for this activity are contained in the links below. They are all snippets from our free AI for Teachers course.

Worksheets

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Lesson Plan

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