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Week 01 · What is a computer?

Thursday

Follow the instructions
// A machine that follows instructions
⏱ about 15 min

Thursday: Follow the instructions

Rocket taps the tablet and a game opens.

"How did it know?" he asks.

Raven leans in. "What do you notice?"

Nova spins. "Hint: your tap was an instruction."

One step at a time

A computer follows instructions one step at a time.

It does exactly what the instructions say.

A wrong instruction gives a wrong result.

People write the instructions.

The computer follows them.

OPENING A GAME
  • Tap a card.
  • Then tap its spot.
1First
2Next
3Then
4Last
Try it
Play Computer Says with a grown-up.
Give one instruction, like clap twice.
The grown-up does exactly what you said.
Now swap jobs.
INSTRUCTION CHECK
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
How does a computer follow instructions?
Who writes the instructions?
Rocket tapped the game. What was the tap?
What happens with a wrong instruction?
SentenceTrue or false?
A computer does what the instructions say.?
A computer guesses what you want.?
A tap on a screen can be an instruction.?
Wrong instructions can give wrong results.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEA computer only follows instructions. It does not guess.
NOVA INSIDE
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Nova lives inside a machine. What does she follow?
In Computer Says, who is the computer?
What opens after the steps are done?
SentenceTrue or false?
People give computers instructions.?
A computer can skip steps it does not like.?
Nova follows instructions.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEA computer does every step in order.
Draw yourself giving a computer an instruction.

Word Spot: place, years, back

Here are new sight words.

Look at each word. Say it. Spell it.

Place: P-L-A-C-E.

Years: Y-E-A-R-S.

Back: B-A-C-K.

FIND THE WORD
  • Listen to the word.
  • Tap it.
Find the word you hear.
Find the word you hear.
Find the word you hear.
Find the word you hear.
FILL THE GAP
  • Listen to the sentence.
  • Tap the missing word.
The park is a fun ___.
Some turtles live for many ___.
Put the cup ___ on the shelf.

You followed the steps! Tomorrow we review the whole week.

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