INTEL ACTIVITIES

Now that we are familiar with computer basics, we are ready to test our gained knowledge through Intel interactive activities. Again, I have grouped individual activity questions according to the activities they correspond to. Answer the questions presented bellow on a separate sheet of paper. Use Intel's activity pages to answer the questions bellow the horizontal line.

Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions in your own words.

Questions:

Activity 1: Which does what?

For this activity you will describe the roles that each individual device plays in computer processing. Intel has created activity 1 page that allows you to click on individual device in order to find out its role in computer processing. Don't just blindly copy the answers - try guessing before you actually click on the device. Fill in the blanks bellow - is the part designed to do INPUT, STORAGE, PROCESSING, or OUTPUT. Be careful with the last question...

  1. Speakers are designed to do ______________.
  2. Microphone is designed to do ______________.
  3. Monitor is designed to do _______________.
  4. Keyboard is designed to do _______________.
  5. Mouse is designed to do _______________.
  6. PC camera is designed to do ______________.
  7. Scanner is designed to do ______________.
  8. Printer is designed to do ______________.
  9. CD-ROM drive is designed to do ______________.
  10. Floppy drive is designed to do ______________.
  11. Hard drive is designed to do ______________.
  12. Microprocessor is designed to do ______________.
  13. Random Access Memory (RAM) is designed to do ______________.
  14. Read Only Memory (ROM) is designed to do ______________.
  15. Motherboard is designed to do ______________.

     

Activity 2: Different kinds of storage media.

For this activity you will explore 4 different computer storage media that we talked about in class. Those are floppy disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and hard drives. Intel has created activity 2 page that allows you to click on individual storage medium in order to find out how much information can it hold. Fill in the blanks bellow with corresponding numbers. Then, answer two last questions using the knowledge you've gained throughout the activity.

  1. Floppy disk can hold _____ MB (mega bytes) of information.
  2. Floppy disk can hold _____ text books of information.
  3. Floppy disk can hold _____ printed pages of information.
  4. CD-ROM can hold _____ MB (mega bytes) of information.
  5. CD-ROM can hold _____ floppy disks of information.
  6. CD-ROM can hold _____ text books of information.
  7. CD-ROM can hold _____ printed pages of information.
  8. DVD can hold _____ MB (mega bytes) of information.
  9. DVD can hold _____ floppy disks of information.
  10. DVD can hold _____ text books of information.
  11. DVD can hold _____ printed pages of information.
  12. Hard drive can hold _____ MB (mega bytes) of information.
  13. Hard drive can hold _____ floppy disks of information.
  14. Hard drive can hold _____ text books of information.
  15. Hard drive can hold _____ printed pages of information.
  16. What computer medium stores the least amount of information?
  17. What computer medium stores the largest amount of information?