🎯 Learning Intention

I will analyze how the Personal Computer Revolution connects to earlier innovations.

✅ Success Criteria

I know I’ve got it when I’ve added 2 modern anchors and 2 historical anchors to my Canva timeline with notes.

🧠 Tech Journal Prompt (5 min)

What’s one way the personal computer changed daily life in the 1980s?

📚 Vocabulary (Quick Hit Review)

• Personal Computer (PC) – a computer designed for individual use.
• Revolution – a major change that shifts society, culture, or economy.

📣 Mini-Lesson / Lecture (15 min)

1. Watch Crash Course Ep. 25 – The Personal Computer Revolution.
2. Discuss: How is the PC similar to/different from the printing press?
3. Teacher connects timeline arc: Abacus → ENIAC → PC → today.

🤝 Work Time (25–30 min)

• Guided Skim: Medieval → Early Modern innovations (printing press, telescope, microscope).