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ComputerHistoryActivityGrades:68Goal:LearnaboutsomekeyeventsinComputerHistoryDurationoflesson:40minutesto1hour.Objectives:Becuriousaboutcomputerhistoryandappreciatethecomputerstheyuseeveryday.LessonIntroductionToday,wecannotimagineourworldwithoutcomputers.
Doyouknowthatearlycomputersdidnotlooklikethecomputersoftoday.
Infactsomeofthefirstcomputerswerepeople!Humancomputers!(linkto
picturehere)Thehistoryofcomputersisfascinating.Thisisyourchanceto
learnmore.
Activity
Yourclasswillbebecreatinga'historyofcomputers'webpage/Scratch
project/videothatwecansharewiththeworld.
Tomakethiswebpage,youandyourpartnerwilldoresearchandwriteabout
oneimportanteventorpersonincomputerhistory.
Youwillsoonfindout'Whatwastheworld'sfirstvideogame?','Whoisworld's
firstcomputerprogrammer?','WhodesignedthefirstApplecomputer?'and
muchmore....
Checkyourassignment(itwillbefromoneofthefollowingtopics).listcanbe
modifiedandextended.Createcardsandletstudentspickone.
1. Humancomputers2. Abacus3. AdaLovelace
4. Babbage5. Hollerith'sPunchedCard6. ENIAC7. GraceHopper8. Colossus9. Woz10.Pong11.TheAltair880012.FairchildSemiconductor13.DouglasEngelbart14.WorldWideWeb15. IBM'sWatson
Moredetailsontheactivity
InthesharedGoogleDocument/inyourownnotebookwritedown
1. Yourtopic2. Theapproximatedateifyoucanfinditforyourtopic,i.ewhendidit
happen3. 23linesdescribingyourresearchtopicinyournotebook.4. Whyisyourtopicimportantwhatproblemdiditsolveorwhatdidthis
persondothatnoonehadeverdonebefore.
Itisimportanttowritethisinyourownwords,sootherstudentswillbeableto
understandit.Donotjustcopyouttheinformation.
Checkthefollowingwebsites
www.computerhistory.org
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/cgi/computingtimeline.pl
http://www.computersciencelab.com/ComputerHistory/History.htm
YoucandoaFind(CommandF)andlookforthetopicwithinapage.
YoucanalsodoaGooglesearchandlookataWikipediasiteforsomeofthe
topics.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerhistory.org&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHmFw6SX1aGzAUumR_HRXoz0okZfwhttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computinghistory.org.uk%2Fcgi%2Fcomputing-timeline.pl&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNG8yxccc2bLzX-rCAJAq9K6pBEl-ghttp://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computersciencelab.com%2FComputerHistory%2FHistory.htm&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHDdPBU-Oq5YceMGiWIBBTuDDEK8Q
ClosureHavestudentssharewhattheyhavelearnedatendofclass/inthenextclass/viathewebpage/video/ScratchprojectAuthor:SheenaVaidyanathan,ComputerScienceteacher,LosAltos,California.Contact:[email protected]
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