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Making the Call on AI Referees

Grades 3-8 45 minutes Artificial Intelligence

Making the Call on AI Referees

In this lesson, students will explore how AI models are trained by testing a simulated AI referee on judging penalty kicks in soccer. They will work in teams to run a test, decide whether or not the AI referee made an accurate call, and record their findings.

Resources

Lesson Plan PDF

Objectives:

  • Train the “AI referee” with the provided image data of the calls for a penalty kick.
  • Test the AI referee by having it make calls on several plays.
  • Reflect on what other data the AI referee might need to be consistently accurate.