Activities to enable students to develop and demonstrate an understanding of Decomposition, Pattern Recognition and Abstraction to solve problems.

Here is a plan drawing for a wooden deck chair made from lengths of pine and dowel. It is designed to fit a mobile phone. I have put it as a KS3 activity project but I have used it as a 1 week starter for GCSE Resistant Materials.

Producing a Magazine Title Header in a Bling/Chav style. Intermediate task for Adobe Photoshop (all versions).

COMPUTER SCIENCE BOOLEAN LOGIC ‘End of Topic’/Formative Review. I use this quiz both for my Year 9s (End of KS3 Topic) and for my Year 10 and 11 IGCSE Computer Science Classes as part of a formative review. The quiz is out of 50 marks and covers the six main Logic Gates, Truth Tables and both LOGIC and Boolean Logic Statements.

This is the Year 7 'Bed Project' which we have used for the last two year in Design Technology. It is designed as a leveling tool and is taught by all DT staff to the Year 7 students at the start of the year. This is how we arrive at our student baselines!

Activity sheets to run alongside the Photoshop 'BLING' tutorial. These involve students analysing existing magazine covers before planning their own.

A series of Christmas themed tasks for students to work through in their Computing / Computer Science Lessons. Including PYTHON, HOUR OF CODE, PISKEL, SCRATCH and VOX3D.

Bringing 3D Drawing into the classroom with Google Sketchup. First lesson involves creating a flag pole with further tasks moving onto students building their dream house.

This is a useful guide / poster for learning Italian. I have created it for myself to use as a travel around and teach in Milan. However thought it might be a nice resource for students leaning Italian.

In this lesson students work in Adobe Flash and build an 'animated sequenced' between the start and finsh line for an Olympic event of their choosing. Higher marks (EBI) are given to students who are using tweening in their animations.

You have 2 days to produce a LEADERBOARD Banner Advert that promotes either: 'ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE' or the 'ALTERNATIVE VOTING SYSTEM' that will be voted for on MAY 5th. I have included information from the CONSERVATIVE Party, and their wishes to keep 'One person, one vote', (http://www.conservatives.com/Campaigns/No_to_AV.aspx) but the choice is yours! The Banner Ad will need to be animated, (some things will need to move) this could be text, images or a combination of both. It must be the correct size, this is the size to set your page. Please work in 72dpi. Work in Flash or Fireworks!

In this Beginner PYTHON LESSON 3 Tutorial we will starting looking at how we can make our code more efficient with the help of loops. While working through this beginner’s python lesson you will learn the basics and fundamentals of python whilst working in IDLE and apply those skills. These series of python lessons are designed to get you up and running in python as fast as possible. Please download and install PYTHON from: https://www.python.org/downloads/

In this Beginner PYTHON LESSON 1 Tutorial we will be creating our first python code based on INPUTS! While working through this beginner python lesson you will learn the basics and fundamentals of python whilst working in IDLE and apply those skills. These series of python lessons are designed to get you up and running in python as fast as possible. Please download and install PYTHON from: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Short activity to demonstrate understanding of some of the requirements for Block 16 (Graphs & Charts) from the Paper 3 (Data Analysis and Website Authoring ) Controlled Assessment Exam

In this Beginner PYTHON LESSON 2 Tutorial we will be continuing with our first python code exercises based on working with NUMBERS! While working through this beginner’s python lesson you will learn the basics and fundamentals of python whilst working in IDLE and apply those skills. These series of python lessons are designed to get you up and running in python as fast as possible. Please download and install PYTHON from: https://www.python.org/downloads/

The first of a series of videos to address the iGCSE COMPUTER SCIENCE Section 1 - Theory of Computer Science 1.1 Data representation 1.1.1 Binary systems Candidates should be able to: (a) recognise the use of binary numbers in computer systems (b) convert positive denary integers into binary and positive binary integers into denary (a maximum of 16 bits will be used) © show understanding of the concept of a byte and how the byte is used to measure memory size (d) use binary in computer registers for a given application (such as in robotics, digital instruments and counting systems)