Middle school computing resources

When these booklets are printed you have 8 theory lessons primarily based on the BBC Bitesize website. Follow the bitesize online pages and activities and complete the task sheets. Homework can be completed on the homework booklet. They have been designed to be used without computers and there are enough lessons for 1 every 2 weeks. Hope they are useful

These past exam questions formatted in writing frames will help students answer 6 mark questions. Hopefully gets the pupils thinking about the structure as well as the number of points that need to be made. Created for Unit 1 - Living in a digital world

All keywords from the Edexcel text book for use with the GCSE ICT - Unit 1 - Living in a digital world

A useful single document to help teach pupils (and teachers) about creating a GUI (Graphical User Interface) using the TKinter library in Python. This handout helps pupils and teacher brush up on thier Python skills and works well as a handy reference guide. This document includes an explanation of using functions in Python and gives examples of code with easy to follow explanations. It also includes a single page of 4 challenges for students to complete which is ideal for photocopying and distributing to students to work through and practice their new skills. There is even a suggested answer to each of the challenges in case you get stuck. The challenges in this document do assume your pupils have confidence with using Python's programming structure before they tackle this section. Your pupils should have a sound knowledge of using tuples and lists along with saving to and reading from a .csv file and using functions. For more lessons and complete units of work visit www.nicholawilkin.com.

Couple of spreadsheets to aid teaching of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm and A* algorithm. Example and step by step explanation included. Tried to make it as self explanatory as possible so can be given straight to the pupils whilst you explain it etc.

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This resource is the 7th of 8 lessons for Kodu. Students have to create a call of duty game which is controlled by the BBC microbits. They will learn about how to control the moment of players using a microbit, how to control the LED lights and display patterns. Version 2 of kodu required. Resource contains: - Powerpoint with differentiated learning objectives (bronze, silver, gold) - Exemplar Kodu Call of duty game with code - Code of duty game without code to give students to allow them to jump straight to the coding

This resource is the final lesson of 8 lessons for Kodu. There are no exemplar materials with this one as the purpose is for students to consolidate their knowledge from the previous week's lessons. There are differentiated challenges which are set and are contained within the powerpoint to give focus. A great lesson to get students thinking creatively!

This unit of work for Kodu is a brilliant introduction to programming using a graphical user interface. Students learn how to program classic arcade games such as pac man and space invaders. Put your BBC Microbits to use and get students using them as a game pads in order to create a 'Kodu of Duty' game! The pre-built worlds which include student versions and teacher exemplars are an excellent way for you to get your students to dive straight into the coding. We all know how long students can spend on making their worlds so this is a great way to get straight to the things that matter! Tried and tested this year (2017) with over 500 students, this unit was a big hit and really helped increase our numbers at KS4.

A useful single document to help teach pupils (and teachers) about writing to and reading from a .csv file using Python. This handout helps pupils and teacher brush up on your Python skills and works well as a handy reference guide. This document includes an explanation of writing to and reading from a .csv (comma separated value) file using Python and gives examples of code with easy to follow explanations. It also includes a single page of 6 challenges for students to complete which is ideal for photocopying and distributing to students to work through and practice their new skills. There is even a suggested answer to each of the challenges in case you get stuck. The challenges do assume the pupils have an understanding of the basics of Python including variables and if statements, loops, converting between integers and strings and using 2D lists. For more lessons and complete units of work visit www.nicholawilkin.com.

A useful single document to help teach pupils (and teachers) about Tuples, Lists and Directories in Python. This handout helps pupils and teacher brush up on your Python skills and works well as a handy reference guide. This document includes an explanation of what Tuples, Lists and Directories are and gives examples of code with easy to follow explanations. It also includes a single page of 11 challenges for students to complete which is ideal for photocopying and distributing to students to work through and practice their new skills. There is even a suggested answer to each of the challenges in case you get stuck. This document is a quick and helpful reference guide which works together well with the others in the series “String Manipulation”, “One-Dimensional Arrays” and “Two-Dimensional Arrays, Lists and Directories”. Together these document give you a good grounding in understanding what can be a complicated area of programming for pupils to master. The challenges do assume the pupils have an understanding of the basics of Python including variables, If statements, For and While loops. For more lessons and complete units of work visit www.nicholawilkin.com.