💻 TechnologyLevel 1Lesson 2
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Understand How Computers Help People in Daily Life

How to use: Download the PDF to print the worksheet. Then use this page to repeat activities and check answers.

Learning Objectives

  • 1Name ways that computers help people
  • 2Match each computer task to its real-life example
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Mini Lesson

Computers are tools — and tools are made to help us do jobs more easily. A computer can help you learn, talk to people far away, find information, and create things!

Computers help us communicate

  • You can video call someone who lives far away.
  • Example: calling grandma on a tablet so you can see her face.
  • You can send a message or a drawing to a friend.

Computers help us learn and find information

  • A search engine lets you look up any question you have.
  • Learning apps can teach you math facts, spelling, and more — at your own pace.

Computers help us create and work

  • You can write a story, draw a picture, or make a card using a computer.
  • Grown-ups use computers at work to write reports, read plans, and solve problems.
Four ways computers help peopleA laptop in the center with four labeled bubbles pointing outward: Communicate, Learn, Create, and Work.Commu-nicateLearn &ExploreCreatethingsHelpus work
A laptop in the center connected to four bubbles showing what computers help us do: communicate, learn, create, and work.
Computer tasks matched to real-life purposesThree rows, each showing a computer task on the left connected by an arrow to its real-life purpose on the right.Computer task to Real-life purposeVideo call app(on tablet)Talk to family far awaySearch engine(on computer)Look up any questionDrawing app(on tablet)Make a digital pictureEach computer task helps a person do a real job!
Three computer tasks — video call app, search engine, and drawing app — each matched to the real-life job it helps a person do.
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Ask yourself: "What job does this computer task help a person do? Could I do that job without a computer?

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Guided Practice

Sketch the diagram from your paper worksheet — draw a computer or tablet in the center and label four ways it helps people. Then use the Tracing Pad to practice the key tech words from this lesson.

Tracing Pad
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Exercises

1. What is a computer?

2. Mia wants to see and talk to her grandma who lives in another city. Which computer tool helps her?

3. Ben wants to find out how big elephants are. Which computer tool helps him?

4. Which computer tool helps you write and save a story?

5. In which of these places can computers help people?

6. Lily wants to make a digital picture. Which computer tool helps her?

7. How does a learning app help a student?

8. How do computers help grown-ups at work?

9. Why do we call a computer a "tool"?

10. Which of these is a way computers help people communicate?

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