Grade 2 · Technology · Lesson 8

What Can Computers Help Us Do?

Before computers existed, people did many things by hand — writing letters, looking up books in a library, drawing maps by hand, and storing files in giant paper cabinets. Computers changed all of that. Today a single device can do thousands of tasks that once took enormous time and effort. Let\u2019s look at the six main things computers help people do.

What this lesson teaches

1Name the six main categories of what computers help us do — communicate, create, learn, solve problems, store information, and entertain
2Match a computer task to the real-life need it meets

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