Computer Networking Teacher Resources

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Mathigon

Mathigon: Graphs and Networks: Graphs in Everyday Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on graphs in everyday life including virtual graphs such as the Internet or physical computer networks of computers. It puts graph theory into practice and provides examples and learning exercises.
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Other

Pcstats.com: Beginners Guides: Home Networking and File Sharing

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information about establishing and maintaining a secure home computer network, with an emphasis on Windows-based operation systems.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Internet Addressing Protocol

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of internet protocols (IP) in computer networking.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ip Addresses

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice problems involving IP addresses in computer networking.
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Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Message Routing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students simulate a server and are connected via computer networks. Representatives from each table act as routers, and as they write messages to each other, the routers help route these messages.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Pixel Flow Code Cracking

For Students 9th - 10th
This article reveals some techniques and vulnerabilities in Unix-based computer networks.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Personal Area Network (Pan)

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia gives an excellent encyclopedia definition of a Personal Area Network for the computer, or PAN.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Physical Network Connections

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn that the internet is a network of computers connected to each other. But what does each physical connection look like? It depends on the needs of the connection and the size of the network.
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Other

Connected: La Ns and Wa Ns

For Students 9th - 10th
The definitions and comparisons between Local Area Networks (LANs), and Wide Area Networks (WANs).
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Local Area Network (Lan)

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an encyclopedia definition of a local area network, or LAN, including many hyperlinked terms.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Network Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
From social media to massive financial institutions, we live within a web of networks. But how do they work? How does Googling a single word provide millions of results? Marc Samet investigates how these networks keep us connected and...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ip Addresses and Dns

For Students 9th - 10th
The co-founder of the Internet Vint Cerf and software engineer Paola Mejia take us through the ins and outs of how networks talk to each other. [6:44]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Scalable Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
The Internet began its life as a network connecting universities and research centers. Once it became available and affordable for consumers, it shot up in popularity and is now used by an estimated 4.5 billion people.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Bit Rate, Bandwidth, and Latency

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how binary information is sent and how quickly they can be sent.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Internet Protocol Suite Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice problems with the internet protocol suite of networks.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Scalable Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice problems to help understand scalable network systems.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Internet Routing Protocol

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Internet Protocol (IP) computers split messages into packets and those packets hop from router to router on the way to their destination.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Router

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a detailed encyclopedia definition of the term, "router," including hyperlinked terms and links to router manufacturers and a picture of what a router looks like.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Internet Routing Protocol

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how computers split messages into packets and those packets hop from router to router on the way to their destination.
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Other

About Networks

For Students 9th - 10th
An informative article about networks. Includes what it is, and types of networks.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ip Addresses

For Students 9th - 10th
Check your understanding of IP addresses (v4 and v6), in this set of free practice questions designed for AP Computer Science Principles students.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ip Addresses

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Internet Protocol (IP) is one of the core protocols in the layers of the Internet
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Internet Protocol Suite Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice problems with the many protocols that power the Internet and how each protocol operates at a different layer.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Internet Protocol Suite

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the many protocols that power the Internet and how each protocol operates at a different layer, building functionality on top of the layer below it.

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