The nursery
school teacher meets the children in the explorers lab. They sit on the
floor around an old computer.
The children describe the
tasks of the computer, compare it to the human brain for example.
With the help of the
nursery school teacher they describe the CD-Rom drive and other particularities
of the computer at hand.
The nursery school teacher
encourages the children to have a look into the computer. The children
examine the casing and look for possibilities to open it. They open the CPU,
observe and describe what they see. The nursery school teacher offers
child-appropriate explanations and picks up the childrens ideas and
questions, for example: This is a ventilator, what do you need it for? It
blows air into the CPU so that it does not get hot, just like a fan in a
room.
The children unscrew parts
in the CPU. The nursery school teacher talks about the individual parts with
the children and explains them in a child-appropriate way. (LINK)
The children put the parts
back into the CPU until all individual parts have been fastened again. The
casing is put back on. The children open the keyboard and examine and explain
what they see. The nursery school teacher expands these explanations.
The children put the
keyboard back together. The children draw pictures of the inside of the CPU
and the keyboard into their manuals.
Background
information:
In order to see
the inner workings of a CPU the scews at the back are unscrewed and the
casing pulled up. (LINK Photo: Inner workings of a computer and
explanations). The big cables transmit the data, the small ones are for
electricity. By pressing keys on the keyboard impulses are sent to the CPU.
