Artificial Intelligence(AI) Syllabus for Class 8th 2020-21
Introduction to AI,Introducing the concept of Smart Cities, Smart Schools and Homes.Possibilities,Ethics,CBSE Class 8 syllabus of Artificial Intelligence(AI)
CBSE Class 8 syllabus of Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2020-21

NAME OF THE UNIT | DURATION | PERIODS | |
1 | EXCITE | 02 Hours 40 Mins. | 4 Periods |
2 | RELATE | 02 Hours | 3 Periods |
3 | PURPOSE | 02 Hours | 3 Periods |
4 | POSSIBILITIES | 02 Hours | 3 Periods |
5 | AI ETHICS | 03 Hours 20 Mins. | 5 Periods |
TOTAL | 12 Hours | 18 Periods |
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1. Excite
Session : Introduction to AI and setting up the context of the curriculum.
Ice Breaker Activity: Dream Smart Home idea.
Recommended Activity: The AI Game Learners to participate in three games based on different AI domains.
Learners to design a rough layout of floor plan of their dream smart home.
Game 1: Rock, Paper and Scissors (based on data)
Game 2: Mystery Animal (based on Natural Language Processing – NLP)
Game 3: Emoji Scavenger Hunt (based on Computer Vision – CV)
Recommended Activity: AI Quiz (Paper Pen/Online Quiz)
Recommended Activity: To write a letter Writing a Letter to one’s future self.
Learners to write a letter to self-keeping the future in context. They will describe what they have learnt so far or what they would like to learn someday.
2. Relate
Video Session: To watch a video
Introducing the concept of Smart Cities, Smart Schools and Smart Homes.
Recommended Activity: To write an Interactive Story
Learners to draw a floor plan of a Home/School/City and write an interactive story around it using Story Speaker extension in Google docs.
3. Purpose
Session: Introduction to sustainable development goals
Recommended Activity: Go Goals Board Game Learners to answer questions on Sustainable Development Goals.
4. Possibilities
Session: Theme-based research and Case Studies.
Learners will listen to various case studies of inspiring start-ups, companies or communities where AI has been involved in real-life.
Learners will be allotted a theme around which they need to search for present AI trends and have to visualise the future of AI in and around their respective theme.
Recommended Activity: Job Ad Creating activity
Learners to create a job advertisement for a firm describing the nature of job available and the skill-set required for it 10 years down the line. They need to figure out how AI is going to transform the nature of jobs and create the Ad accordingly
5. Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Video Session: Discussing about AI Ethics
Recommended Activity: Ethics Awareness
Students play the role of major stakeholders and they have to decide what is ethical and what is not for a given scenario.
Session: AI Bias and AI Access
Discussing about the possible bias in data collection
Discussing about the implications of AI technology
Recommended Activity: Balloon Debate
Students divided into teams of 3 and 2 teams are given the same theme. One team goes in affirmation to AI for their section while the other one goes against it.
They have to come up with their points as to why AI is beneficial/harmful for society.
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