Activity: How does a computer work?
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Category: AV-Media, Computers
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Where: a room apart,
the hall |
How long: approx. 1 hour |
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Steps: The computer
components are in the middle of the room. The children describe the
components and realize that a computer can only work if there are cables to
connect the individual parts. The children connect all parts, the nursery
school teacher helps if necessary. The children describe the order of the
data-transport, the nursery school teacher helps if necessary. folge des
Datentransportes. The children let themselves be turned into a computer by a
spell. (Hocus Pocus!) The nursery school teacher and the children go to the
big cardboard computer. The children check if all parts and connections are
there. The children imitate the data-transport using different stations
(input of letters using the cardboard keyboard – letters in different colours
– transport of the letters to the CPU and from there to the monitor. One
after the other the children enter their names and transport the typed
letters until the name appears on the cardboard screen. The nursery school
teacher shows a poster with the components of the computer and a child adds
the cable connections by drawing them and explaining the way the data take. The nursery
school teacher explains that they will create a computer manual so that the
other children in kindergarten can also learn how computers work. The
children design and draw the first page which shows the components of a
computer and which way the information takes. |
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Background
information: A computer consists of a keyboard, a CPU, a monitor and cable
connections. The data start
by being entered with the help of a keyboard, a cable transports them to the
CPU, which is where they are processed, and then they are passed on through
the cable to the monitor that shows the information. CPU and monitor
are switched on by pressing the start button. |
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