KS3 Computer Science Year 9: Programming Project – 6 lessons

6 ready-to-teach KS3 Computer Science lessons for Year 9: Programming Project. Editable slides, lesson plans, worksheets and full answers.

A small end-to-end project that mirrors the IGCSE Paper 2 scenario question and previews the IB internal assessment.

What’s included

• 6 PowerPoint lessons, one per lesson, with photos, click-by-click activities and speaker notes
• Lesson plan pack (Word): objectives and a timed 50-minute plan for every lesson, plus teacher notes
• 6 student worksheets (Word), ready to print or edit
• Answer pack (Word) with answers for every worksheet section

Lessons

1. Problem analysis and requirements
2. Design with pseudocode and a flowchart
3. Build: first working version
4. Test plan: normal, abnormal, extreme and boundary data
5. Refine and evaluate against the requirements
6. IGCSE taster: an exam-style scenario question (assessed)

Key vocabulary

requirements, pseudocode, test data, boundary, evaluation, iteration

Assessment

Project portfolio (design, code, test table, evaluation) and taster question (L6).

Format

• PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx), fully editable
• Works in PowerPoint and Google Slides (some animations may look different in Google Slides)
• Written for the English national curriculum for KS3 computing, and builds towards GCSE / IGCSE Computer Science

Photos are from Wikimedia Commons under free licences and are credited on each slide and in LICENSES.txt.