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Hardware We Can Recognize

Children learn that hardware is the parts of a device you can touch, recognise the screen, keyboard, mouse or trackpad, speaker, microphone, camera and charger, and say what each part does. They then find the same jobs done by different-looking parts on a desktop computer, a laptop and a tablet.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 28 minutes
  • Hardware check: 6 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, match pairs and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Recognise common hardware parts (screen, keyboard, mouse or trackpad, speaker, microphone, camera, charger) from what they look like.
  • Say what each part does: shows, types, points, plays sound, hears, takes pictures or gives power.
  • Find the parts that do the same job on different devices, such as a mouse, a trackpad and a touch screen for pointing.

Lessons

  1. Parts we can touch 4 steps2 practiceabout 9 min
  2. What does each part do? 4 steps3 practiceabout 9 min
  3. Same jobs, different devices 3 steps2 practiceabout 10 min
  4. Hardware check 6 questions at the end

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