2. I asked them to draw what they thought was inside it.
3. Went over the drawings with the class.
4. Blew some minds after opening it.
5. Discussed the parts and related them to the human body as best I could.
The retention was very high when they understood how the processor was like the brain, the hard drive like long-term memory, ram like short-term. The motherboard was like the circulatory system (blood stream). Video card was like the eyes.