← Back to course
AI Explorers 3-5 / Week 10 / Wednesday
3/6
Week 10 · When AI Is Wrong

Wednesday

Explorer Lab: Fact Check Station
// Sure is not the same as right
⏱ about 15 min

Wednesday: Explorer Lab: Fact Check Station

Rocket deals out eight cards from the pretend helper. Each one sounds very sure.

"These all look right to me," Rocket says.

Raven lines up a calendar, a pencil and some buttons. "What do you notice? We have tools to check."

Nova hovers over the cards. "Check each card before you believe it," she says.

Your lab

You will fact-check eight sure-sounding cards with trusted tools.

  • Eight index cards or paper strips
  • A pencil
  • A calendar
  • Twenty small counters, like buttons or paper squares
  • A partner or a grown-up, if you can
Safety first
Keep small counters away from little brothers and sisters.
Nothing goes in your mouth.
Pencil points stay down at the table.
  1. Copy one helper card from the table onto each index card.
  2. Read a card out loud in a very sure voice.
  3. Pick a trusted way to check it: calendar, counting or drawing.
  4. Check it. Write true or false in the table.
  5. Do all eight cards. Count how many the helper got wrong.
Helper cardHow to checkTrue or false?
A week has 7 days.calendar
There are 12 months in a year.calendar
May comes before April.calendar
The word station has 8 letters.count the letters
A triangle has 3 sides.draw one and count
10 plus 5 equals 16.count counters
Monday comes right after Sunday.calendar
An index card has 5 corners.count the corners
PREDICT FIRST
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
All eight cards sound sure. Do you predict they are all true?
Helper cardTrue or false?
A week has 7 days.?
There are 12 months in a year.?
May comes before April.?
The word station has 8 letters.?
A triangle has 3 sides.?
10 plus 5 equals 16.?
Monday comes right after Sunday.?
An index card has 5 corners.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEChecking showed 4 cards were wrong, even though all 8 sounded sure.
How many letters are really in station?
What is 10 plus 5 really?
How many corners does an index card really have?
How many of the eight helper cards were wrong? Type a number.
WHY THIS EXERCISEThe helper got 4 out of 8 wrong while sounding sure every time.

Excellent fact-checking! Tomorrow we build habits to use every time.

← Tuesday