Lesson: 30 - Cables & Connectors

Purpose: Students will learn to connect a projector to computer or laptop.

No. of. Classes

One class - One hour.

Materials Required

Desktop or Laptop computer, projector cables and connectors.

Curriculum Content

9.5)Cable and Connecters.

Prior knowledge

Students should know about usage of projector.

Exercise

Exercise:1


1. How to connect a projector or big screen TV to Desktop and laptop.

Solutions


Solution
  • Link to view the Solution Video for Exercise-1 (Solution).

    • Teacher's Instruction
    1. Explain in detail the solution to the Students.
    2. Use the specified words Projector, HDMI cable and VGA cable.
    3. While teaching use the words "Projector, Display, HDMI, VGA, Cables and Connectors" etc. They need to be familiar with those words.
    4. How does the computer and monitor talk to each other? Why are there so many different types of interfaces between computers and displays? How does the same computer work with display with different resolutions? Like in lesson 22, here too there is a protocol (which varies from cable to cable) which allows the computer to learn about the display and send appropriate format images to display.