Computer networks and data transmission are the focus of this Grade 7 Computer Science worksheet, helping students understand how information travels between connected devices. Students develop network vocabulary, examine the roles of devices and infrastructure, explore local and global communication, and trace how data can move across multiple connections to reach a destination.

Start with the structure of a network

Students define important terms including network, node, connection, and infrastructure. These concepts give them the vocabulary needed to describe how connected systems are organized and how individual parts contribute to communication.

The resource then asks students to describe the roles of devices and network infrastructure in sending information. This helps connect terminology with function, so students can explain that moving data depends on both the devices involved and the connections that link them.

Follow information from one point to another

A central skill in the lesson is explaining how data transmission occurs across multiple connections. Students identify how information can travel through a network before reaching its intended destination, reinforcing the idea that communication may involve several connected points rather than one direct path.

Students also explore how networks support both local and global communication. This broadens their understanding of network use by showing that the same core ideas of devices, connections, and infrastructure can support communication over different distances.

Practice explaining network processes

The worksheet includes multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer responses, a dialogue, matching, a cloze passage, a labeled diagram, a reading passage, and an essay. These formats give students opportunities to define network terminology, identify the functions of network components, interpret communication pathways, and explain how information reaches a destination.

What is included

• The How Computer Networks Move Information student worksheet
• A separate Teacher Guide PDF with Learning Objectives
• Teaching Tips for supporting instruction
• Discussion Questions for extending student reasoning
• Common Mistakes to help teachers address misconceptions

Use this networking worksheet during a Networks and Internet unit, as independent classwork, homework, or review. By connecting nodes, network infrastructure, local and global communication, multiple connections, and information transfer, the resource gives Grade 7 students structured practice explaining the basic systems that allow data to move through computer networks. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}