Home › Lower School › Classroom Pages › Lower School Technology ›

Fourth grade gets inside a computer

Submitted by Richard Kassissieh on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 3:43pm
posted in
Printer-friendly versionSend to friend

Students examined the insides of three computers and identified some of their parts.

The purpose of the lesson was to demystify (at an introductory level) what is happening inside a computer. Also, I wanted the students to note the similarities among three very differently shaped machines: a Mac laptop, a Mac desktop, and a PC desktop.

Students had the option not to appear in this video.

Audio/Video: 

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
video/quicktime icon4th grade inside a computer compressed.mov

Comments

Post new comment

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <div> <table> <tr> <td> <p> <br> <b> <img> <strike> <hr> <div> <pre>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

By submitting this form, you accept the Mollom privacy policy.