AI Decade Match

This worksheet is designed for students in Grades 5-7 to strengthen reading comprehension, historical reasoning, and chronological thinking through an exploration of artificial intelligence milestones. Students match major AI inventions and developments-such as the Dartmouth Conference, the Perceptron, and GPT-3-to their correct decades, helping them understand how AI evolved over time and how technological progress builds across generations.

Learning Goals

• Historical Chronology (Grades 5-7) – Organize key AI milestones by decade to understand sequence and progression.
• Technology & Computer Science Knowledge – Identify foundational developments that shaped modern artificial intelligence.
• Contextual Analysis & Pattern Recognition – Use historical clues to connect inventions to their time periods.
• Information Synthesis – Combine details from multiple facts to form a clear timeline of AI growth.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators to align with social studies, science, and ELA standards.
• Clear Matching Format – Supports structured thinking and independent practice.
• Builds Background Knowledge – Introduces influential innovations and figures in computer science history.
• Flexible Use – Ideal for STEM integration, history of technology units, enrichment, or homework.

This printable worksheet helps students see artificial intelligence as a developing field shaped by decades of innovation. By matching milestones to time periods, learners strengthen chronological reasoning, comprehension, and understanding of scientific progress. Suitable for classroom or homeschool use, this no-prep activity supports interdisciplinary learning while helping students place modern AI within a broader historical context.

This worksheet is part of our History of AI collection.