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Coding · Ages 10+ · Set A
The repair bench
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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
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Which one is software, the instructions that run on the parts?
🔋a battery🔊a speaker🎵a music player
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You can touch a drawing app.
TrueFalse
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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

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Join each part to its job.
  1. 1processor
  2. 2memory
  3. 3storage
  4. 4screen and speaker
  • Aholds what it is working on
  • Bshow and tell
  • Ckeeps files and programs
  • Dthe thinking chip
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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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Answer key · Set A
The repair bench
1a keyboard You can press the keys of a keyboard, so it is hardware. An app and a game are software.
2a music player A music player is a set of instructions. You cannot touch it.
3False An app is a set of instructions, so it is software.
4True Without hardware, software has nothing to run on, so they need each other.
5an app that freezes, an old version that needs an update A cracked screen and a flat battery are hardware matters. A freezing app and an old version are software, and an update can fix them.
6hardware The battery is a part you can touch, and a part needs energy, just as a body needs food.
71-D, 2-A, 3-C, 4-B The processor thinks, memory holds the work in hand, storage keeps files and programs, and the screen and speaker show and tell.
81, 2, 4, 3 The battery is fixed first, then the app freezes, and the update fixes the software.
9The screen, touch and sound all work, so it is the software When the parts work but the app freezes, the instructions are the problem, and an update can fix them.
10True Without software, hardware is just a box of parts.
114 The screen, keyboard, battery and speaker are parts you can touch. The game and the web browser are software.
12Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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