This activity drops students into a design lab where they build their own portable computer from scratch, learning inputs, outputs, processors, and memory by actually choosing the parts.

What's Inside

This illustrated Google Slides activity walks students through 8 pages of a hands-on cyberdeck design lab:

⭐ The Brain of Your Machine - students choose what their processor thinks about and what their memory stores

⭐ How Does Info Get IN? - six illustrated input devices to choose from, plus students invent a custom input nobody else has (a dream recorder? a snack detector?)

⭐ How Does Info Get OUT? - six output devices plus a custom invention

⭐ Design Your Interface - a full-page cyberdeck screen where students design their home screen layout

⭐ The Blueprint - one massive design space for the full cyberdeck build with labeled parts ...plus a welcome page and closing reflection

Perfect for computer science class, technology class, STEM centers, library maker spaces, early finishers, or sub plans.

✅ Google Slides - students type directly into text boxes, no printing needed

✅ Works for K-5 - younger students draw and label, older students write detailed specs

✅ Teaches real CS concepts - input, output, processor, memory, and user interface design

✅ Zero prep -- just assign the Google Slides link and go

Can your students find the tiny robot mouse hiding on every page?