Can AI guess your emotion?

Discuss emotions as a class, and introduce the idea of artificial intelligence (AI). This lesson can also be used to introduce image classification – a key application of AI. Developed in collaboration with Digital Technologies Institute.

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Year band(s)	F-2, 3-4
Content type	Lesson ideas
Format	Web page
Core and overarching concepts	Digital systems, Algorithms, Implementation (programming), Privacy and security, Data representation
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)	ACTDIK001 Recognise and explore digital systems (hardware and software components) for a purpose ACTDIK002 Recognise and explore patterns in data and represent data as pictures, symbols and diagrams ACTDIK007 Identify and explore a range of digital systems with peripheral devices for different purposes, and transmit different types of data ACTDIK008 Recognise different types of data and explore how the same data can be represented in different ways ACTDIP004 Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems ACTDIP005 Explore how people safely use common information systems to meet information, communication and recreation needs ACTDIP010 Define simple problems, and describe and follow a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve them ACTDIP012 Explain how student solutions and existing information systems meet common personal, school or community needs
Technologies & Programming Languages	Artificial Intelligence
Keywords	Artificial Intelligence, Facial recognition, emotions, AI, artificial, intelligence, teachable machine, data representation, algorithms, problem solving, digital systems
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs	HPE
Organisation	ESA
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.