Hardware is the parts you can touch. Software is the instructions that run on it.
Hardware is the parts you can touch, like a screen, a keyboard or a battery. It is like a body.
Software is the instructions that run on the hardware, like an app or a game. You cannot touch it. It is like a mind.
Hardware can do nothing alone, and software needs hardware to run on, so they need each other.
When something stops working, ask: is it a part, or is it the instructions?
These are some of the questions on the sets. The printable sheets have more and an answer key.
Software. A game is a program, a set of instructions.
Hardware. A part is damaged.
Software. The parts are fine, so the instructions have the problem.
An update. An update brings new instructions.
True. Without software it is just a box of parts.
Pick a phone, tablet or computer with a grown-up. List the parts you can touch: screen, buttons, speaker, camera. Then list the apps and programs on it. What is the difference? Which list can you hold in your hand?
Pick a phone, tablet or computer together. List the parts you can touch, then list the apps and programs on it. Look at the outside only, and do not open a device.
