8.1 Computer Science - Interactive Lessons for Non-Specialists

Six standalone interactive lessons, based on the NCCE scheme of work and developed over the years.

Pupils work in an interactive shell, then copy their work into a Word or Google Doc at the end of the lesson.

SEND friendly: read aloud on every step, voice typing, accessible fonts, coloured backgrounds and sentence starters.

Keeps them going: pupils earn XP and have a limited number of lifelines to use in each lesson. An amber, then red, border warns inactive pupils.

Teacher mode removes the “must complete each step before moving on” rule and gives unlimited lifelines.

Admin: no install, no logins, no pupil data stored. Just link to it.

8.1.1 Get in Gear (What is a computer?)
8.1.2 Under the Hood (Inside a computer)
8.1.3 Orchestra Conductor (The operating system)
8.1.4 It’s Only Logical (Logic gates and binary)
8.1.5 Thinking Machines (AI and machine learning)
8.1.6 Sharing (Open source, plus the unit test)

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