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The Journey Inside

Introduction to Computers

Lesson 2: Four Components of a Computer

Directions: Use the website to complete the units in this series. Choose Intro to Computers on the gray menu bar. Choose Lesson 2 on the left side of your screen and complete the questions below after reading the paragraph, watching the video, and completing Activity 1.

  1. Both a toaster and a computer have physical parts you can touch such as the keyboard and mouse which are called ______
  2. The computer has something that enables it to figure out what to do with the input you give it: ______.
  3. You ______touch software.
  4. The ______is the device in the computer that performs most of the tasks we ask the computer to do. The computer is ______in the things it can do.
  1. According to the video the bread is the raw data that is ______, the dial on the toaster was the information ______, toasted bread was compared to ______raw data, and finished toast was the ______.

Activity 1: Which Does What?
Lesson 3: How Computer Get Input

Directions: Use the website to complete the units in this series. Choose Intro to Computers on the gray menu bar. Choose Lesson 3 on the left side of your screen and complete the questions below after reading the paragraph, watching the video, and completing Activity 1.

  1. Computers are information processing ______.
  1. Clicking information processing and write the definition: ______
  1. Before you can change a sentence with your computer you first have to get the sentence ___ your computer.
  1. ______devices are used to put information in your computer.
  1. List the 4 input examples the site gave: ______, ______, ______, and ______.
  1. In ______the first general purpose computer was built and data was input by flipping ______and plugging ______.
  1. This first computer was called the E______N______I______and C______.
  1. Another way scientists used to have to input data was to punch holes in ______.

Lesson 4: How Computers Store Information

Directions: Use the website to complete the units in this series. Choose Intro to Computers on the gray menu bar. Choose Lesson 4 on the left side of your screen and complete the questions below after reading the paragraph, watching the video, and completing Activity 1.

  1. In the example given a telephone is an ______and output device while an answering machine is a ______device.
  1. To store the information you give them computers use two basic kinds of storage abbreviated ___ & ___
  1. ______memory is for new information in temporary storage which is actively being used for processing and is constantly changed and ______.
  1. Long-term storage, ______memory is for information computers use again and again, such as the instructions the computer prepares itself with every time you turn it on and it does not accept new information.
  1. ROM is ______into a computers chips so it cannot be altered or ______.
  1. Name four devices computers use to store information that isn't actively being used for processing ______, ______, ______, and ______

Activity 2: Different Kinds of Storage Media

  1. Which item was able to be put into the ROM ? ______
  1. An 1.44mb Floppy disk holds ______printed pages, ______books, ______floppies.
  1. An 640mb CD holds ______printed pages, ______books, ______floppies.
  1. An 17gb DVD holds ______printed pages, ______books, ______floppies.
  1. An 80 gb hard drive holds ______printed pages, ______books, ______floppies.
  1. What is the definition of data? ______
  1. What is the definition of media? ______

Lesson 5: How Computers Process Information

Directions: Use the website to complete the units in this series. Choose Intro to Computers on the gray menu bar. Choose Lesson 5 on the left side of your screen and complete the questions below after reading the paragraph and watching the video.

  1. Computers use ______to process information.
  1. The chips in DVD players, remote controls, and electronic calculator are______
  1. Microprocessors are designed to do whatever the ______you select instructs them to do.
  1. The definition of an integrated circuit is: ______

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  1. The definition of embedded processor is: ______

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  1. The processor takes in ______, performs tasks called for by the ______, and it communicates with the rest of the computer through the ______.
  1. Early computes used ______to process information which were ______tubes and the ENIAC had ______switches?
  1. The _____was the first microprocessor which was invented by ______in ______for a ______.

Lesson 6: How Computers Deliver Information

Directions: Use the website to complete the units in this series. Choose Intro to Computers on the gray menu bar. Choose Lesson 6 on the left side of your screen and complete the questions below after reading the paragraph and watching the video.

  1. The definition of output is: ______
  1. Some types of output include ______from speakers and documents from a ______
  1. What is the definition of download? ______
  1. Explain why an mp3 player is an output devise? ______