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An entire 100+ slide PowerPoint covering Python Programming topics as stated in the OCR GCSE J277 Computer Science Specification.
This set of slides includes theory, examples, coding tasks and answers as well as starter activities for the following topics:
Variables
Comments
Data Types
Casting
Operators
User Input
Strings
String Methods
Concatenation
Booleans
Built in functions
Conditional Statements
FOR and WHILE loops
Lists
2-D Arrays
Functions and Procedures
Worksheet for strings and string methods included
WORKSHEET HAS NOW BEEN ADDED TO FILES.
Table of contents is linked to relevant slides to save you as much time as possible!
Computer Science periodic table wall display of key terms in programming.
Wall display for ICT and Computer Science classroom.
Key terms and keywords with definitions for programming in Python.
Contains 32 key words used in programming with definitions under each one.
Grouped together as publisher documents to easily print all 4 groups seperately.
PLEASE NOTE: You will recieve 8 documents with this download.
4 documents are the coloured version to be printed out on white paper.
The other 4 are black images with transparent text created on Photoshop to allow you to print on coloured paper of your choice.
All files are Publisher Documents ready to be printed.
UPDATED - Now includes Answer Booklets in PDF format.
Revision and practice are vital components to any GSCE Computer Science student’s preparation for their examinations. This workbook is filled with just that, a great resource to support learners with recall and to check their understanding of key GCSE Computer Science course content prior to their exams.
This Bundle includes both GCSE OCR (J277) Paper 1 and Paper 2 Workbooks in PDF format which can be printed as an A4 or A5 booklet. The booklets includes recall tasks to support revision for the OCR GCSE Computer Science Paper 1 – Computer Systems and Paper 2 – Computational Thinking, Algorithms and Programming exam papers and includes exercises like True and False, Vocabulary matching and tick-box questions, among others.
A revision booklet with revision theory and questions for Paper 2 in the OCR J277 Computer Science specification.
A range of questions are included in the booklet, and answers are included.
Topics covered:
Programming
Errors
Variables
Inputs and Outputs
Data Types
Operators
Selection
Iteration
String Manipulation
Flowcharts
Trace Tables
Sorting Algorithms
Searching Algorithms
Complete exam technique lesson to help GCSE computer science students boost their grades.
Do you feel your students know their computer science theory but are worried they still need a little extra help on understanding how to answer the exam questions to get the highest marks possible?
Fear not, help is at hand.
This stand-alone lesson introduces your pupils to common exam terminology so they feel more prepared in understand exactly what type of answers the questions require to get the top marks available.
It gives them plenty or practice in answering a variety of questions including a min exam paper you can set as a homework task or during a second lesson.
Buy this resource now and give your students the opportunity of gaining a few more valuable points. This can mean the difference between getting the grades they need or possibly missing out just because they didn’t know how to answer one particular type of question.
What is included?
This complete lesson includes :
a 29-slide PowerPoint presentation (editable)
1-page PDF teacher’s lesson plan (not-editable)
1-page PDF algorithms question handout (not-editable)
2-page PDF mini exam paper (not-editable)
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Please note: This lesson was created specifically for the OCR GCSE Computer Science (J277) and AQA GCSE Computer Science (8525) exams and will help your pupils feel more prepared for their exams.
How can it be used?
The exam preparation PowerPoint presentation is best used during your computer science exam revision lessons. Use the PowerPoint presentation along with the class working through all the exam practice activities together.
You can either set the mini exam paper as a homework task and mark it together the next lesson or even let them mark it themselves. Alternatively set the mini exam paper during a second dedicated lesson and mark it together in class.
What are you waiting for? Grab your copy of this invaluable lesson now and give your pupils the boost they need to get a few extra marks in their computer science exams.
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Looking for computer science revision material? Check out these fabulous self-study workbooks that completely cover the exam specifications:
Complete set of OCR Revision Workbooks
Complete set of AQA Revision Workbooks
Computer Coding Cover Lessons Student Activity Booklet - Activity Work Booklet. This activity booklet contains 14 pages. Within this activity pack is a wide range of student tasks to complete and we have included the answers to any puzzles.
Contents of this activity pack:
Reading Comprehension + Missing words task
Literacy Acrostic Poem Example + Task
Set of riddle to unravel
In depth For and Against argument matching sorting activity
Topical Debates
Big Moral Questions
Fun Facts
The Big Knowledge Quiz
Cypher Dungeon Puzzle
Answer Sheets
More…
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UPDATED TO INCLUDE 2025 series.
A complete breakdown of the 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 exam papers for both components 1 and 2 for the OCR GCSE Computer Science specification (J277).
Each paper has been mapped out to include the specification points covered and the questions asked. Questions have been colour coded to show repetition over the 3 past-papers.
Each paper also has a clear matrix mapped to the specification to help see which specification points are questioned more often, and which have been questioned least often.
I use this as a revision tool with my classes to ensure they know the key knowledge for the types of questions that appear every year. I also use it to try to predict what may appear in the next summer exam series (which worked to great effect in summer 2024 when ‘Operating Systems’ was questioned after seeing it had not appeared on the 2022 or 2023 paper!).
These work lovely as A3 worksheets, students to complete and fill with as much data as possible.
Topics included from the AQA spec:
Broad paper 1+2 Revision (one task is vb.NET but this can be easily changed to python/c#)
Data representation
Computer Systems
Ethical and Legal impacts
Cyber Security
Computer Networks
Answer sheets for data representation and also computer systems.
3 PPTs that are fantastic for GCSE OCR Paper 2 Revision. Lots of past paper style exam questions, answers for each question perfectly animated onto the screen in a timely fashion.
Lots of retrieval activities in between exam questions that help students recall key concepts. 60 slides in total covering a range of key topics on the paper 2 GCSE OCR exam.
Computer Science Team Building Escape Room - Virtual Escape Room run through PowerPoint by Cre8tive Resources! This lasts an hour or under depending on how quick the teams can solve each puzzle! Students love this style of lesson, great as an educational treat for your middle school or even high school class. Will your students be able to escape before time runs out?
The escape room puzzles content will be tailored to the topic of this escape room.
Escape Room Product Contents:
☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display
☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams)
☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms
☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles involving numeracy, literacy and lateral thinking)
☞ Bonus Riddles with every puzzle.
☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly
☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts.
☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams
✿ The 7 Rooms include: The Garage, The Attic, The Nowhere, The Dungeon, The Entrance, The Rest Room and the Garden. (Each Puzzle has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room (this one is very general and fun!) and is suitable for Middle School and High School students.
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They can also be used to encourage a flipped learning environment.
This highly interactive lesson that requires the pupils to work in teams and use computational thinking skills to solve a range of puzzles. This activity perfect for pupils about to learn Python programming and you want to show the importance of computational thinking skills.
**This resource was shortlisted for the Teach Secondary Awards, a very rare honor for an independent resource creator. **
Your class need to work together to escape a locked laboratory in a spaceship and start the engines to avoid being sucked into a black hole by completing different challenges which will use a variety of computational thinking skills.
They are given most of the lesson to work together and at the end of the lesson, time is dedicated to discuss the computational thinking skills they used during the activity. This gives them a practical application for the computational thinking theory rather than using the tired old “making a jam sandwich” or “getting up in the morning” scenarios which are commonly used.
This activity is not a handout driven escape room, it involves using an interactive PowerPoint presentation and physical tasks that moves away from pupils filling in yet another worksheet, to working together in a team to solve interesting and challenging puzzles.
Pupils enjoy the lesson and are fully engaged whilst developing the key computational thinking skills of decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithms.
Please note: This lesson does require teachers to prepare some props beforehand and it is highly recommended the teacher reads through the teacher’s instructions and creates the props well before they want to use the lesson. Also please note that this resource does not work with Google Slides.
Written primarily for key stage 3, this activity can be used in a variety of situations:
Introducing pupils to computational thinking skills before they are introduced to a text-based programming language
Used as an end of term fun lesson which still has an education element
A fun activity to use on a year 6 transition day
Allow your new year 7s to get to know their new classmates and grow team sprit
Helping a reluctant class see the benefits of learning programming skills
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What are you waiting for? Download this interactive escape room NOW, to help students learn about computational thinking skills in a fun and memorable lesson they will love and remember.
You may also be interested in my Computational Thinking Worksheets which you can buy from here.
GCSE Computer Science Paper 1 Revision Bundle. 5 PPTs for at least 5 lessons in total (over 100 slides).
Includes a range of revision activities in each PPT, from quick quizzes to retrieval questions. Content includes animated demos for some key content. Answers are provided via animations on each of the slides.
Content is aimed at OCR GCSE Computer Science but could be used for some other specs (please cross check the specifications you are using).
Aimed at year 11 revision for the lessons leading upto the exam/mock exam.
A full set of revision mind maps covering all of the key content for the AQA GCSE Computer Science course. Large parts of this also apply to other exam board specifications.
Features 90 separate slides covering topics such as algorithms, logic, binary representation, hexadecimal, encryption/huffman coding/runtime encoding, hardware/software, ethics etc.
A professionally designed Christmas quiz for teachers of Computer Science (Computing/ICT) to use with KS3-5 students, featuring 60 well-presented questions and an answer sheet.
The quiz also includes a word-search (on screen) and a couple of anagram rounds.
Fifty of the questions are all Christmas-related and not connected to a specific school-subject: the final ten are subject specific and deal either with GCSE terminology of “fun facts”.
Differentiation can easily be achieved by changing quiz group sizes. The quiz is suitable for KS3-5.
Completing and peer-marking the 60-question quiz should take the best part of a 1-hour lesson.
A great, new quiz from Nichola Wilkin Ltd. As has become a bit of a tradition, my quizzes are used by thousands of schools every year to give pupils a fun final lesson before they break up for summer. This whole class quiz is ideally suited to keep your students engaged and settled for the final lesson of the summer term. Suitable for key stage 3 and GCSE classes.
The quiz includes computer science elements as well as other fun, summer related questions getting them into the summer holiday spirit.
Each round includes 5 questions and after each round the teams swap their answer sheets to mark them (all answers are provided within the presentation) allowing the quiz to easily be cut shorter if you need to.
The 9 rounds this year include:
Computer anagrams
Summer objects
Programming
Films
Computer hardware
Logic questions
Identify the character
Multiple choice computer science questions, and of course
Song lyrics
Have a fantastic summer!
You may also like these other great end of term activities I have produced:
End of Term Computer Science Murder Mystery Revision
End of year Computing Summer Quiz 2018
End of year Computing Summer Quiz 2017
End of year Computing Summer Quiz 2016
This ready-to-use cover lesson is ideal for non-specialist teachers covering ICT or Computer Science at short notice. It ensures lesson time is used productively while placing minimal demands on the cover teacher.
The lesson includes:
Literacy, numeracy, and keyword starter activity
Brief contextual introduction to coding
Links to six free online coding games and websites, each with its own tutorials and explainer videos so students can start independently
Simple post-it note plenary to consolidate learning
This resource is perfect for keeping students engaged, building coding familiarity, and providing an independent learning experience. It is accessible for a wide range of abilities and requires no prior coding knowledge from the supervising teacher.
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Teach students about the basics of computer networks. Exploring different computer network types and the way in which they differ according to the type of user.
Also a look at network hardware, security and policies.