Year 2 iPub Lesson 2

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STEP 1

How computers have changed

STEP 2

Computers Past and Present

Look at the presentation

It shows old computers and new computers

Think about what is the same and what is different

What do you think the next big changes in technology will be?

STEP 3

Make a timeline of how computers have changed

Download the worksheet and make a timeline about changes in computers over time.

Then use online drawing tools to invent your own tech of the future. Be as creative as you can!

Print the timeline worksheet

Design your own future technology

CHALLENGE (OPTIONAL)

Make a model of the technology you designed using old boxes, tubes, paper or card.

This is called a prototype

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Investigate sound by making a 'telephone' using paper/plastic cups connected with a long length of string.

Can you hear the other person when they speak through the string?

Early telephones had wires connecting them.

Compare that with today's telephones.