The Internet: A Global Network
Students learn about the internet as a global network and how information travels across it.
Key Questions
- Analyze the journey of a webpage request from your computer to a server.
- Compare a local network to the global internet.
- Hypothesize how the internet changed global communication.
ACARA Content Descriptions
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