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Inside the Series

The key features of the series have been designed to ensure better learning,
assessment and evaluation.

Learning Resources

My Selfie Page Comic Story C T & AI
# This section prepares the # Each chapter starts with a # The book includes special chapters
students to introduce and express conversational style story to make on Computational Thinking and
themselves. learning fun and engaging. Artificial Intelligence (I-VIII).

Step 2: Decide the time and place for the party. 21 st #Information Literacy
Step 3: Inform family members and friends about the party place through phone calls or Double Tap Century Skills #Critical Thinking
e-mail. Do as directed.
#My Selfie Page Step 4: Greet the guest with love and warmth. If (boy eating ice cream) If (boy's shirt green)
Step 5: Start and enjoy the party.
then then
If you miss one step or do not write the steps in the correct order, the output will not be what Colour the star as red Colour the diamond
Donate your old toy to a needy/poor child. Paste a selfie here. you want it to be. otherwise Yellow otherwise as blue

Factbot Pink
The step-by-step procedure is also called algorithm.
LOOPS
The act of repeating an action again and again is called looping.
Art Integration Learning Let us understand loops with the help of an example.
#Baking You can observe that first Harry goes up towards the sky.
Ask your mother or father to bake a cake. Analyse the steps to be followed. Now write the steps Interdisciplinary Learning
in correct order to bake a cake in your notebook.
Selfie Rohan is getting ready for school. He looks outside the window. It was raining. #Activity Skills Century 21 st #Information Literacy In the second round, Harry and Jerry are both at the same level.
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#General Knowledge
Ask your father or mother to say “Hey Siri” or “Ok Google” on their mobile phone for you.
Write 'R' for real and 'A' for artificial.
DECISION MAKING
Now ask for the following from the voice assistant and write your answer here.
1. Who invented the computer mouse?
2. What is the date tomorrow?
In the third round, Jerry is at a higher level. Thus, the cycle goes on.
Oh! It's If (it’s raining) Repeating a set of steps is a loop. 3. When is Diwali this year?
raining. then 4. Who is the Indian cricket team's captain?
What to do?
Carry an umbrella and go to #Activity using a voice assistant
school.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer or a machine to think, learn and
otherwise
act like human brain.
#Stepwise Instructions ROBOTS
Don’t carry an umbrella. Experiential Learning
Robots are automatically operated machines that work in place of humans. It is not
This explains that when a condition like 'if' is given, there are two choices: Divide the class into groups of four students each. In each group, one member acts as a robot and
necessary that they look like humans by appearance nor they may perform exactly like
the other members give the instructions to the robot to do the activity. The activities can be like
1. When the ‘If’ condition is a ‘Yes’, then we follow ‘then’ statement. humans. Some robots use AI too.
2. When the ‘If’ condition is a ‘No’, then we follow ‘otherwise’ statement. clean the board, get a glass of water, collect notebooks, etc. in surgeries, lift and pack objects. They also help in
They serve food, teach, help
#Group Activity
Decision making is a process of arriving at a conclusion by making a choice. household work like cooking and cleaning.
How did you feel making someone smile? Write 3-4 lines about your experience.
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# ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT MACHINES #Stepwise Thinking
For a machine to be artificially intelligent, it must
be able to:
1. solve tasks and take decisions
2. understand and express human language Robot serving food Robot preparing for a surgery
3. recognise images
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SHRDLU was one of the first AI programs to understand natural language.
Robot in a factory Robot cleaning the floor
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Take Off Timeline Hintbot
# It links back to previous knowledge # It presents the summary of the # It provides a practical information or
before starting the lesson. chapter for quick recapitulation. tip to the students.
Take Off Century 21 st #Creativity
Skills #Communication
Your father asks you and your elder brother to create invitation letters for a party.
Fill in the blanks with the details. Hintbot
Birthday Invitation
To close a document: Alt + F4
Dear friend , [type your friend’s name]
I am celebrating my birthday on . You are invited to attend the party
at [type the time] on [type the date] at my residence.
There will be lots of games and fun time.
Looking forward to seeing you
Your friend [type your name]
Can you make an invitation letter on the computer like this? Let us learn about it in this
chapter.
In the previous class you have learnt some basic commands of Word 2019. Let's, recall some
new features about Word 2019.
Word is a word processing software. A Word processor is an application software that helps
us type, edit and format documents, letters, poems and reports.
USES OF WORD 2019
Word is used to: #Chapter Profile Factbot
type letters, stories and reports, quickly and easily
present your text beautifully and neatly using different colours, styles and effects
add pictures to your documents, stories and poems # This section describes the objective # It provides interesting computer
remove all the errors from the document using spelling and grammar features
DIY In The Lab
make changes in the text when you are typing and after typing also of the chapter. facts.
copy or move the text from anywhere in a document or a new document
save the text for later use
# It is a lab activity to develop practical #Chapter Profile
print the complete document or a part of it
skills for Subject Enrichment. Computer Hardware Computer Software Factbot
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When purchasing items, you notice a label with
thin, black lines across it. This is called a barcode.
DIY In The Lab Century Skills 21 st #Information Literacy A device that is used to scan a barcode known as
#Technology Literacy
To act bot Barcode scanner.
Subject Formatting
Create a bulleted and numbered list as shown.
1. Adding Bullets and Numbering
a. Open Word and type the text given below.
b. Select the text and click on Home tab.
c. Click on the Numbering option.
d. Now, click on drop-down arrow of Bullets option in Paragraph group and select Tick mark
bullets.
2. Type the following sentences as shown below:
#Job Prospects
# This section indicates the possible
Now, underline all the prepositions and make all the nouns bold.
a. Click on the Home tab. Click on the Numbering option. career aspects on pursuing similar
b. Select 'in' and 'on' from the paragraph and click on Underline option. topics.
b. Select 'pen, bag, table, room' and click on Bold option.
For The Teacher
Do an entire walk-through of the chapter. #Job Prospects
Demonstrate all formatting features to the students in detail.
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