Wednesday 17 January 2018

Computer Hardware Lesson 2 - What's inside a computer?

In this lesson you are going to learn what the main parts of hardware are inside a computer and what they do.

Objectives and Outcomes

  • Be able to describe how computers use inputs, process them and produce outputs (band 4)
  • Be able to explain the functions (what they do) of different pieces of hardware inside a computer (band 5)
1.  Open a new post on your blog and title it the same as this one.

2.  Click this link to open my slideshow of information and tasks for this lesson


3.  Read through my slideshow, watch the video on slide 3 (you'll need headphones!), check what you've remembered (slide 4) and complete Task 1 on slide 5.

4.  For Task 2 on slide 6, targets are 

Bronze - 4 components and a description of what each one does.

Silver - 5 components and a detailed description of what each one does.

Gold - 6 components, a detailed description of what each one does and an explanation of what would happen (or not!) to the working of the computer if each one of them in turn was missing.

5.  Share your slideshow (Advanced - change from Private to Anyone with the Link) and copy/paste the link to your blog post under your Task 1 work.

Publish!


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