Grades 6–8
Teach the Machine
Choose training examples, test the model and improve it. Get 6 of 8 test animals right to earn the badge.
Part of AI Pathway: AI Explorers
This little model looks at 3 features of an animal and finds the most similar examples you gave it. It has never seen the test animals before.
Is it a sea animal?
Step 1 · Pick at least 4 training examples (0 picked: 0 “Sea animal”, 0 “Not a sea animal”)
What this game teaches
- Machine learning learns from examples, not rules
- Lopsided examples make a biased model
- Testing on new data shows what the model really learned
Play together
- First train with only sea animals — what happens?
- Then add land animals and test again. Talk about why it changed.
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