History of Computing - Lesson 2

In this lesson, you are going to find out about Charles Babbage and what he did.  You will then make a slideshow with information and images about him.

Lesson Objectives and Outcomes

Explain who Charles Babbage was and what he did (band 4)
Apply your skills to create slideshow with information and images (band 5)

Your tasks
1.  Open your blog and a new post.

2.  Title your post (in the box at the top of the page) the same as this one.

3.  Open another internet tab and find my blog and this lesson's post.

4.  Copy/paste the Lesson objectives and Outcomes from this post onto your new one.

5.  Open up a third internet, click on the 3x3 grid of little squares at the top right and click on Slides.

6.  Click on the link below to take you to the relevant section of the Prezi 

Charles Babbage

Try to find out the following details (if it's not on the Prezi, open another internet tab and search on Google):

a)  When did Charles Babbage live?
b)  What did he build, what was it called and what did it do?
c)  We say that a machine is a computer because it solves problems for humans - what was the problem then that needed a solution?

Share your slideshow - click Share - then Advanced - where it says Private, click Change and choose Anyone with the Link - copy/paste the blue highlighted link on to your post under your Lesson Objectives.

7. Under your link, say what band you think your work is and why.

Publish!!

8. If you have spare time, go back and do more work on your Stonehenge slideshow.  
You can find this in your Drive (a triangle symbol in the 3x3 grid drop-down menu).  The link updates as you go along so you won't need to re-share or anything complicated like that!







Charles Babbage information