Year 4 The internet worksheet

“Networks and the internet” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 computing unit “The internet”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 22 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 1 to 6 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Networks and the internet

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · Computing · about 22 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can tell a network from the internet and say what a router does.

A Look back3 min

1.
The robot must go around the rock to reach the star. Write the moves as arrows:
2.
How many moves does the robot need to reach the star?
3.
Join each arrow to what it tells the robot to do.
→↑↓
Move one square upMove one square downMove one square right

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola's phone is on her home network. Can the phone reach the internet?

Watch me

The phone is on a home network.

A router links the home network to the internet.

So the phone can reach the internet.

Now you

1.
Sam's laptop is on the school network. Can it reach the internet yet? Circle the answer.
Yes, it canNot yet, it needs a routerOnly if it has antivirus

C Your turn6 min

Trace each chain with your finger. Decide if the device is on the internet, or only on its network.

1.
Can the tablet reach the internet? Circle the answer.
On the internetOnly on its network
2.
Can this tablet reach the internet? Circle the answer.
On the internetOnly on its network
3.
Can this desktop reach the internet? Circle the answer.
On the internetOnly on its network
4.
Can this desktop reach the internet? Circle the answer.
On the internetOnly on its network

Say it out loud: What single thing makes the difference between the chains that reach the internet and the ones that do not?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A desktop computer on a wooden desk, with a network cable plugged into a wall socket

Kit says: “Our school computer is on the network, so it is on the internet.”

1.
Does being on the school network prove the computer is on the internet? Write why.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
The router at Zara's school is switched off. Can the school computers reach the internet? Explain how you know.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Networks and the internet · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. Look for: Any arrows that go round the rock and end on the star, such as down, right, right, up, right. your child may have tried to go straight across and bumped the rock. Ask what is in the way and which way to go round it.

2. 4 your child may have counted the squares instead of the moves between them. Ask them to move a finger one square at a time.

3. → → Move one square right; ↑ → Move one square up; ↓ → Move one square down your child may have mixed up up and down. Ask which way the arrow points on the page and which way the robot must go.

B

1. Not yet, it needs a router your child may think any device on a network is already online. Point to where the chain stops and ask what is missing.

C

1. On the internet

2. Only on its network your child may think the tablet is online because it is on the home network. Ask them to trace the chain and say where it stops.

3. On the internet

4. Only on its network your child may have skipped the gap because the desktop looks connected. Ask what the signal must pass through to leave the school.

D

1. Look for: Says no, because a router is needed to link the network to the internet. your child may think being on the network is the same as being online. Ask them to name the device that links the network to the wider world.

E

1. Look for: Says no, because the router is what links the school network to the internet.

Words to use

Say“Trace the chain with your finger. Is there a router between this device and the internet?”

Instead of“Yes, it's on the internet, it's connected.”

After the sheet

Draw three boxes on paper: a device, a router and the internet. Ask which box the signal must pass through to get out, then try it with a phone or tablet at home.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Internet or the Web?(with a plan)
What can we share online?(with a plan)
Adding content to the web(with a plan)
Who owns online work?(with a plan)
Can I trust this?(with a plan)

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