
How the Internet Works activity sheet
Follow a message from a device to a server and back.
- Follow the Message: name the five stops
- Packet Puzzle: rebuild the secret message
- True or False quiz
- Explain it in your own words
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Follow a message from a device to a server and back.

Practice the habits that keep children safe online.

Match the words, sort facts from mix-ups, and look up a website with DNS.

Find out what the main parts of a computer do and how they work together.

Find out how AI learns from examples, and why its answers still need checking.

Find out how your device gets online without a cable.
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Meet the box that connects your home to the Internet.
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Learn what makes a password strong, and how to keep it secret.
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Find out where your photos and files go when they are saved “in the cloud.”
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Find out how a chatbot writes its answers, and why they need checking.
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Learn why programs go wrong, and how programmers fix them.
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Six ready-to-teach lessons for grades 3–6, built around the free guides and activity sheets.
Each sheet goes with a book in the How Technology Works for Kids series, for readers ages 8–12.