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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.   Double Tap  21 st   #Information Literacy
                                                                                                 Step 3:  Inform family members and friends  about the party place through  phone  calls or   Do as directed.  Century  Skills  #Critical Thinking
                                                                                                  e-mail.
                            #My Selfie Page                                                      Step 4:  Greet the guest with love and warmth.  If (boy's shirt green)
                                                                                                 Step 5:  Start and enjoy the party.  If (boy eating ice cream)  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
                                                                                                 you want it to be.  as blue
                           Donate your old toy to a needy/poor child. Paste a selfie here.                   otherwise  Yellow  otherwise  Pink

                                                                                                    Factbot
                                                                                                    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                                                             DECISION MAKING  Write 'R' for real and 'A' for artificial.  #Activity Skills Century  21 st  #Information Literacy  In the second round, Harry and Jerry are both at the same level.
                                                                                                     Take Off
                                                                                                                #General Knowledge
                                                                                                               Ask your father or mother to say “Hey Siri” or “Ok Google” on their mobile phone for you.
                                                                                                               Now ask for the following from the voice assistant and write your answer here.
                                                                                                               1.  Who invented the computer mouse?
                                                                                                 Rohan is getting ready for school. He looks outside the window. It was raining.
                                                                                                               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.   4.  Who is the Indian cricket team's captain?
                                                                                                     What to do?  then 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
                                                                                                    act like human brain.     Don’t carry an umbrella.  Experiential Learning
                                                                                                       otherwise
                                                                                                             #Stepwise Instructions  ROBOTS
                                                                                                               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.
                                                                                                               They  serve  food,  teach,  help
                                                                                                 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
                                                                                                                     #Group Activity
                                                                                                               household work like cooking and cleaning.
                                                                                                 Decision making is a process of arriving at a conclusion by making a choice.
                           How did you feel making someone smile? Write 3-4 lines about your experience.
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                           #                                                                         ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT MACHINES
                                                                                                    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
                                                                                                     Factbot
                                                                                                    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
                                        #Communication
                                       Skills
                       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
                                                                                                   When  purchasing  items, you  notice  a  label  with
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                                                                                                   thin, black lines across it. This is called a barcode.
                         DIY In The Lab  Century  21 st   #Information Literacy                    A device that is used to scan a barcode known as
                                    Skills  #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.  career aspects on pursuing similar
                       a. Click on the Home tab. Click on the Numbering option.
                       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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                                                                Content Writer     Blogger
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