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Build a microchip pattern with LEGO Dots, ink it, and print a whole batch. Start with a read-aloud from Hello Ruby: Journey Inside the Computer, then end by inventing what your microchip might do—and wondering about the world of nanometers.

Humans learn about the world through our senses. You have ears to listen and eyes to see. You can smell and taste different things, and feel if someone touches you. Robots react to their surroundings with sensors.

The different components inside a computer, like CPU, GPU, RAM and ROM as well as Hard Drive, each have a special task. Let’s learn more about each one!

Computers are all around us. They help us in everyday tasks. Children use computers for entertainment, looking up information and staying in touch with one another. People in shops, factories, hospitals and schools use lots of different kinds of computers in lots of different ways.

Have you ever peeked inside a computer? In this exercise you'll get to draw and discuss what computers hide inside them.