About this Daily Classroom Special
Bits & Bytes combines technology objectives, activity ideas, web sites, and resources
in an effort to make it easier for everyone to incorporate technology into their instruction. Bits & Bytes is maintained by Barbara Smith, Magnet Coordinator at Harvard Elementary,
Houston (TX) and Teachers Network web mentor.
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What's Inside Your Computer
- Teach children the names for a computer's components. Play Definition Bingo.
- Make cards with component names and let them stick them on a computer. Leave them up until students can use them consistently.
- Ask parents for an old broken computer. Let your students take it apart and show them the different parts.
Can they identify and differentiate the following:
| monitor |
screen |
speakers |
| power switch |
floppy drive (usually the A:/) |
keyboard |
| mouse |
CD/DVD drive |
CPU |
| hard drive (C:/) |
motherboard |
power supply |
| video card |
sound card |
ports |
| Ethernet cable |
printer |
scanner |
| zip drive |
digital camera |
drops |
| server |
software |
hardware |
| Internet |
World Wide Web |
URL |
| browser |
search engine |
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Some good web sites for definitions are:
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