Arduino - Yr 7 & 8 Technology, 9 & 10 Electronics, Design & Technology A range of worksheet activities with circuit diagrams and code covering Computer Science and Physics curriculum. Can be used to make programming more interactive / fun building practical systems. With links to all the Tinkercad devices for immediate / hassle free access : Arduino–Getting-started-with-TinkerCad-Simulation : how to build circuits, code 2.TinkerCad-Traffic-Light-Simulation : create own traffic light system. 3.Using Loops in programming the Arduino using Tinkercad : learn how to use for Loops 4.TinkerCad-Knight-Rider-Simulation : create iconic strobe effect with sound 5.TinkerCad-Parking-Sensor-Simulation with flashing leds and sounds and distance sensor 6.Tinkercad Night Light Simulation with LDR and push switch. Tinkercad Electronic Dice with Push button Tinkercad Creating and displaying characters using an LCD Includes a Summary of aims / learning for each lesson too. Over 60 pages of instructions / activities. If any of links to projects online do not open ( I update them every 30 days as they expire on the site) please email me : narud@outlook.com. Please let me now if there any other issues and give me feedback, so I can improve ( and you can download the improved versions).

8 lesson bundle consisting of lots of practical activities and differentiated tasks with answers (written and html pages), so learners can practise what they have learnt culminating in website project. An introduction to common html tags and CSS styling. Basic - intermediate level. (40 Pages in all). Lesson 1 : Introduction to Html Lesson 2 : CSS - formatting text Lesson 3: CSS - formatting backgrounds Lesson 4: CSS - styling tables Lesson 5 : CSS - images and hyperlinks Lesson 6 and 7 : CSS - Layout styling div tags ( fixed and floating) Lesson 8 and 9 : Creating your website project 4 additional interactive lessons created in Powerpoint with all source code and answers ( 30 pages in all) - see video preview

Step by step guide for Beginners to create a Platformer Game using free online software G Develop 5. PowerPoints with over 75 slides of instruction. Source files for each lesson provided. Written to cover main aspects of Gaming so leaners learn the fundamentals and then can create their own more elaborate games. Games can be exported to be run using a browser. Lesson 1: Be able to: create and save a project add Objects from Assets page create platformer objects control platformer character with keyboard run and jump and animate the character turn and face direction it is running in create a global variable to store a Boolean value in order to control when Jump sound is played and be able to understand a flow chart to show this process Lesson 2: Be able to: “rip” music from YouTube to use as background music add Background music to game create Text Object to display Score on screen create collision events and score on screen using a score variable use ladders climb between platforms by adjusting collision masks Lesson 3: Be able to: use a timer to control enemy animation control Score when a correct player /enemy collision occurs reduce health if an incorrect player / enemy collision occurs lose lives if health goes to zero or player falls of platform place enemy back on stage to continue with game Lesson 4: Be able to: create a game over screen and display when Lives =0 create a spring-board to double jump to reach higher platforms extend game adding further objects and control camera to follow player work with layers to control position of Score, Lives and Health

A very comprehensive complete range of examples of simple drawing to animating and creating games using Python with Pygame - a Moodle resource - all images and source code - about 30 different in all. Coding can be down without the need to install python with an online pygame emulator called Trinket.

A resource that test basic understanding of html and css.Includes a missing word activity as an introduction and then students interpret html and css to work out the page that would be displayed. Suitable for Year 8 revision lesson. Students use Microsoft Word to type in answers.

An activity that introduces what a sub program is and the difference between procedures and functions. Students show their understanding by building a Calculator program using Python. Answers provided. Activty sheet with provided

Resource shows how to build a circuit with leds, distance sensor and a buzzer using a breadboard and how to program using Arduino. Explains how distance ultrasound is used to measure distances in introduces a sequence of if statements to create a reverse parking sensor which uses sequence of lights and alternating tones from a buzzer to simulate a parking sensor using Tinkercad. Introduces for loops to control brightness of an led and changing the tone of a buzzer. Explains how Square waves can be used to output analogue data. Used for year 9 to make coding more engaging in preparation for choosing Computer Science at GCSE.

A tutorial ( part 1 &2) showing how to use Tikercad to create circuits and program with the Arduino Microcontroller. A fun introduction to programming can be used for Year 8 to 11 learners. Used to practise circuit bulding and programming before building their own circuits using leds, breadboard and Arduino connected via usb to their computer. Used with Year 9 to introduce electronics and programming. Lesson 1 : Controlling an led Lesson 2 : Creating a Traffic Light Simulation. Lesson 3 : Creating a strobe light effect - Knight Rider car Tinkercad is great simulation program , students learn quickly and then are much more confident at to being able to take the exported code and build their own circuits. Makes it much easier to manage a class of 25 Year 9s all doing practical.

Activity to create a Disney emoji bitmap image in excel to consider file size in terms of number of pixels, number of colours ; bit depth and looks at how to use a compression technique to reduce fiel size. Includes an exam question on lossy and lossless compression.

Introduces Firewalls : GCSE Computer Science System Security

A number of different worksheets covering how images are represented / stored digitally. Pixels, bit depth and calculating file size in bits and bytes. Includes practical activity for learners to create their own bitmap images including meta data. Used with Year 10 and 11 GCSE Computer Science Data Representation unit.

Creating an an attractive Poster on A Super Hero conference (lots of images provided) or a Dancing Show : A worksheet showing basic tools needed to format images and text. Created to give Year 7 / 8 students a basic grasp of handling graphics and text using Microsoft Word. Worksheet Step by step screen shots showing how to … Add logos - (all images have a transparent background, so can be overlapped ). Colour page background Insert images from the internet and format them and position them using layers Handle and format shapes Create text using text boxes and format

Exam question from Paper 2 OCR GCSE Paper 2 showing how how to answer using a flow chart, paeudo - code and Python program.

A worksheet for GCSE computer Science students( Year 9,10,11) used to introduce different ways of transferring data in wired and wireless networks. Looks at difference between Bandwidth and Speed and download and upload speeds.

A number of worksheet activities : 1.Investigating MP3 Compression: where learners chose different compression rates on a wav file to investigate fiel sizes and qualities using Audacity ( free sound editing software). 2.Sound and how to store it : introduces sound in terms of frequency and amplitude and how stored digitally. 3.Sound Revision Quiz : some basic understanding of sound properties are tested, bit depth, sampling rate and file size in bits and bytes 4.Sound in Binary : A research quiz to explain the basic key words / principals of storing sounds 5.Sampling Sound: A worksheet where learners can sample a wave to learn about sample rate, bit depth, denary value, binary values stored and file size in bits and bytes All answers provided to lessons are provided.

A spreadsheet model to investigate Resolution and Size of image. Used with Year 9 and 10 GCSE Computer Science Data Representation unit. The user enters the maximum image size of their camera in MegaPixels and then selects the resolution of their printer and the spreadsheet works out the maximum print size possible

Used with Year 10 / 11 GCSE Computer Science. Students research current security issues making in the news and understand why it is important to install updates to computer systems. WhatsApp issues and NHS Makware .

A missing word activity to introduce simple Ciphers based on a short video clip. Used with Year 10 GCSE Computer Science : System Security / Data Representation

Quck Crossword, created in Excel for students to answer in Excel. Summarises different types of Maware threats and techniques used to secure a computer system.

Used with Year 7 / 8 to introduce what an Operating Systems is. Uses image of a car dash to get them thinking about Operating systems / interfaces and how does the driver and the car communicate. Missing word activity that summarises learning from Car dash activity Looks at different kinds of software - Matching up activity All answers provided

A Crossword in Excel with Answers units of storage bits, bytes, KB,MB,GB,TB,PB and how to convert between them A missing word sheet comparing common storage devices - optical, magnetic, flash etc with answers A drag and drop game produced in Word matching up properties of Optical disk, Hard drive, Solid State, Flash dirve , FLoppy Disk Used with Year8, 9 and 10 Computer Science classes