AI Bias Detective Task Cards Activity Artificial Intelligence Ethics Gr 5-8
By Radoune Studio
"The AI is broken" is the wrong diagnosis. Most of the time the AI is doing exactly what it was taught to do — for some people and not others. This pack gives students the words to say that out loud, and the evidence to back it up. Twenty-four scenario cards, six kinds of bias, one reference page. No login, no devices, no district approval: print, cut, hand out. What you get (11 pages, US Letter + A4) • 24 scenario task cards — an essay-grader that punishes one country's spelling, a voice assistant that loses accents, job ads that sort students by gender, a smart camera that under-counts one neighborhood, a feed that narrows a girl's world, a calculator answer nobody questions • Student reference card naming dataset, stereotype, selection, proxy, automation and feedback-loop bias in one line each • Detective organizer — seven boxes that end with "how would you test whether your change worked?" • Cut-and-sort mat — 12 strips, bias or not bias, with a line for written evidence (strip 10 is the trap) • 3 exit tickets, a teacher quick-start with 20/30/45-minute plans, and an answer key with discussion notes How teachers run it Bell ringer (20 min): one card, hands up, argue for two minutes. Investigation (45 min): card, organizer, then a short letter to the company that made the tool — letters on the wall make a strong display. Sub day: print the pack, cut the strips, leave the timer. Grades 5–8. Fits computer science, character education, media literacy, digital citizenship, and
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