With the growing prevalence of AI, the need for K-12 AI education is becoming more crucial, which is prompting active research in developing engaging and age-appropriate AI learning activities. Efforts are underway, such as those by the AI4K12 initiative, to establish guidelines for organizing K-12 AI education; however, effective instructional resources are needed by educators. In this paper, we describe our work to design, develop, and implement an unplugged activity centered on facial recognition technology for middle school students. Facial recognition is integrated into a wide range of applications throughout daily life, often offering significant convenience to individuals. Its applications, ranging from unlocking mobile phones to user authentication, make it a familiar and engaging tool for students and an effective medium for conveying AI concepts. Our unplugged activity, "Guess Whose Face," is designed as a board game that focuses on Representation and Reasoning from AI4K12's 5 Big Ideas. The game is crafted to enable students to develop AI competencies naturally through physical interaction. In the game, one student uses tracing paper to extract facial features from a familiar face, such as cartoon character or celebrity, then other students try to guess the identity of the hidden face. We discuss details of the game as well as initial findings from piloting the game during a summer camp for rural middle school students. To promote customization, we developed a template for the cards that allows educators to tailor the activity for their students by utilizing facial images of their choice. Implications of our research are also discussed.

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The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. 

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