Summary
Watt, Mark, and Windy ride along with an email as it travels from one screen to another. Cables, servers, and a lot of very fast hops. The clearest three-minute answer to "but how does it actually get there?"
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All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Three quick questions to run after the short.
- What did the email pass through on its way?
- Why does a message get broken into steps?
- What is one thing your family uses the internet for?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: internet, email, network.
Try it: Draw three steps a message takes from your device to a friend's.