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 . 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.

Recently updated with even more tasks! 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.

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This comprehensive unit of work introduces the concepts of computational thinking to students at KS4. It covers all elements of computational thinking such as Decomposition, Pattern Recognition, Abstraction and Algorithmic Design. I have also included debugging within the work. Each section is explained and followed by tasks to help develop student understanding. I have also included a ‘supermarket sweep’ computational thinking problem and a final project exercise which has three levels of difficulty. 2018 Update: Improved Grammar and clarity of task requirement. ***Please leave a review!***

FREE SAMPLE AVAILABLE ON MY TES SHOP Need an end of term activity that is also educational and engaging? This quiz is the perfect resource for that. This resource includes a 50 question summer computing quiz with an answer sheet included! There are 10 rounds to the quiz, with a mixture of computing questions and fun rounds too. Rounds include guess the logo, computational thinking puzzles, acronyms and anagrams, guess the game character and many more, With 50 questions, it will last an entire lesson. All errors have been fixed

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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.

This unit was written to improve pupils understanding of the hardware and software components which are required to build a computer system. By learning how to understand specifications pupils should be able to make informed choices when they choose components. Geeky but great fun and engaging. The unit covers the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, Es & Os 3-08c and 4-08d. Have fun Greg P.S. Please leave feedback.

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