Basic Computer Hardware

The Lesson Activities will help you meet these educational goals:

  • Content Knowledge—You willdescribe the basic hardware used in information systems.
  • Inquiry—You will perform an investigation, in which you will collect information and communicate your results in written form.
  • 21stCentury Skills—You will assess and validate information.

Directions

You will evaluate these activities yourself. Please save this document before beginning the lesson and keep the document open for reference during the lesson. Type your answers directly in this document for all activities.

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Self-CheckedActivities

Read the instructions for the following activities and type in your responses. At the end of the lesson, click the link to open the Student Answer Sheet. Use the answers or sample responses to evaluate your own work.

  1. Storage Devices

In this task, you’ll identify storage devices and explain why a particular device is in use.

a)By eithervisiting an office or consulting with an IT professional from the office, identify the types of type of storage devices used by the office.

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b)Now state reasons why the business uses that particular type of computer and storage device rather thananother category of computers or storage devices.

Type your response here:

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How did you do? Check a box below.

Nailed It!—Iincludedall of the same ideas as the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Halfway There—I included most of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Not Great—I did not include any of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

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  1. Types of Computers

In this task, you’ll identify the different types of computers used by the office surveyed in the first activity, and you’ll explain why a particular device is in use.

Type your response here:

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How did you do? Check a box below.

Nailed It!—Iincludedall of the same ideas as the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Halfway There—I included most of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

Not Great—I did not include any of the ideas in the model response on the Student Answer Sheet.

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