Remember: Hardware is the parts you can touch, and software is the instructions that run on them. When something stops, ask: is it a part, or the instructions?
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Body and mindAt the repair bench, Teo sets down an old tablet that will not wake up. Mr. Reyes asks if it is the body or the mind. The body is hardware, the parts you can touch, like a screen, a keyboard or a battery. The mind is software, the instructions that run on the parts. The battery was empty, so Mr. Reyes plugs in a charger, and the screen glows. Hardware needs energy, just as a body needs food. Then the drawing app keeps freezing. The screen, the touch and the sound all work, so the parts are fine, and that sounds like a software problem. Mr. Reyes taps update, new instructions arrive, and Teo draws a wobbly dragon without a single freeze.
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Which one is hardware, a part you can touch?
🎨a drawing app⌨️a keyboard🎮a game
2
Which one is software, the instructions that run on the parts?
🔋a battery🔊a speaker🎵a music player
3
You can touch a drawing app.
TrueFalse
4
Software needs hardware to run on.
TrueFalse
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Circle every problem that is a software problem.
a cracked screenan app that freezesa flat batteryan old version that needs an update
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A flat battery is a matter, because hardware needs power.
updatesoftwarehardware
Match, order and fix
7
Join each part to its job.
1processor
2memory
3storage
4screen and speaker
Aholds what it is working on
Bshow and tell
Ckeeps files and programs
Dthe thinking chip
8
Put Teo's repair in order.
Teo's tablet will not wake
Mr. Reyes plugs in a charger and the screen glows
Mr. Reyes taps update and the app works
The drawing app keeps freezing
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Teo says: the app freezes, so the screen must be broken. What is the mix-up to fix?
Apps are hardwareA charger fixes softwareThe screen, touch and sound all work, so it is the software
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Hardware can do nothing alone.
TrueFalse
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Count the hardware: screen, game, keyboard, web browser, battery, speaker. There are in all.
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Write two parts you can touch and two apps on a phone or tablet.
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Draw a computer, and label one hardware part and one software app.
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