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Computers

3rd - 7th Grade

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Winter West

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12 Slides • 5 Questions

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Computers

Written by: Winter K. West

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The wonderous world of computers

Computers are a wonderous thing. They help you in everyday life, weather it's at work, or even on a plane! Computers help you every day, but have any of you actually thought of how they were made? Well, let's get started learning about how computers where made!(Read carefully, you will be quizzed)

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Facts About How Computers Were Made

  • In 1837, Charles Babbage invented the first computer, called the Analytical Engine.

  • The first generation of computers was from 1940 to 1955

  • Computers back then were powered by vacuum tubes and used magnetic drums to make it store data and memory.

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The Process of Making A Computer

Making a computer is not simple, here are some of the steps to making a computer.

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The Steps of Making a Computer

  • Monitor/ Visual Display Unit

  • The Motherboard

  • Processors

  • Hard Drives

  • Graphics Cards

  • RAM

  • CD/DVD

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Time For Your Quizz

Go to the next slide to take your quizz.

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Multiple Choice

Which One of these is a thing that you can make a computer with?

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Leaf

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Shoe

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Pen

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RAM

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Multiple Choice

Who made the first computer?

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Tobi Watch Worth

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Charles Babbage

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Samantha Valentine

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Good Job!

Good job doing your quizz, but now you have to learn more about computers.

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Understanding Computers

If you are learning about computers, you need to be able to understand them. To start, computers are a machine that can solve a sequence of equations, and can store data. Moreover, computers also have memory. If they didn't have memory your google slides and docs will disappear, and erase everything you did. Lastly, computers have apps and you can learn on them. You can use the keys with letters on them to type. As you can see, computers are very useful and helpful.

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Facts about computers

  • The first substantial computer was called the Eniac machine made by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • The computer that Charles Babbage made was the computer that everybody improved to make better computers.

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How computers help us

  • Computers are fast and a lot of people work on them.

  • They correct your grammar and spelling mistakes.

  • They help us make our work better and more detailed.

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Time for A Quizz!

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Multiple Select

Which people made the first substantial computer?

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John W. Mauchly

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Carson Tokyo

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K. Macy Eckert

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J. Presper Eckert

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Multiple Choice

Which of these is part of understanding computers?

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Computers are a machine that can solve a sequence of equations.

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Computers are machines that are black and have a screen that shows you images and videos of things that you look up.

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Open Ended

What have you learned about computers today?

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ALL DONE!!!

Good Job!

Computers

Written by: Winter K. West

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