🎯 What you will learn
- Know what the desktop is
- Recognize icons and folders
- Find the taskbar and open and close windows
👋 Let’s get started!
When the computer wakes up, the screen fills with little pictures and bars. They all have names! Let’s become screen detectives 🕵️ and learn them.
🪜 Step by step
1. 🏞️ The desktop
The desktop is the big background picture on your screen — like the top of a real desk where you keep your things.
2. 🖼️ Icons
Icons are tiny pictures. Each one stands for an app, a file or a folder. Double-click an icon to open it!
3. 📂 Folders
Folders hold files, just like a real folder holds papers. They keep things neat and tidy.
4. 📊 The taskbar
The taskbar is the strip at the bottom (or side) of the screen. It shows apps you can open.
5. 🪟 Windows
When an app opens, it appears in a box called a window. Click the ✖ in the corner to close it.
📖 Key words
Tap a card to flip it over!
- Desktop
- The main background of your screen 🏞️
- Icon
- A tiny picture that opens something 🖼️
- Folder
- A place that holds files 📂
- Taskbar
- The strip with your apps 📊
🎨 Practice activity
🕵️ Screen detective! With a grown-up, find three icons on the desktop and say what they are. Open one folder, then close the window with the ✖ button.
🖐️ Try it yourself
- Look at the desktop picture 🏞️
- Find an icon and point at it with the mouse 🖼️
- Double-click a folder to open it 📂
- Find the taskbar 📊
- Close the window with the ✖ ❌
Knowledge Check Quiz
- What is a tiny picture that opens an app?
- Where do you keep files neat and tidy?
- How do you close a window?