Whole-school computing resources

This activity this aimed at KS3 and KS4 students, it is ideal for class exercises, revision or an extended homework. The focus of the exercises are: What an IF statement is. How to program an IF statement. What different Boolean operators there are. What an ELIF statement is. How to program an ELIF statement. What a Nested IF statement is. How to program a Nested IF statement. The code for the basic extension task has been provided to demonstrate to students what would be expected. As Python files cannot be uploaded to TES, the code has been copied onto a Word document.

This activity this aimed at KS3 and KS4 students, it is ideal for class exercises or an extended homework. The focus of the exercises are: Recapping the key data types that are used in Python for their GCSE. Practice fill in the gap questions based on those data types. Explaining how data types are used in relation to a chunk of code. Using keywords in their answers for good practice. Understanding concatentation and how it is used with different data types.

This activity this aimed at KS3 and KS4 students, it is ideal for class exercises or an extended homework. The focus of the exercises are: How to create a variable in Python How to assign a variable value in Python How to change a variables value in Python How to allow an end user to assign a value to a variable in Python Build understanding by reading code which has been written in Python or just in text.

This project demonstrates how a binary code can be used to create a digital display When teaching about the uses of binary registers at (I)GCSE, I sometimes find that pupils find it a little difficult to appreciate. I created this quick project which uses a Raspberry Pi and a seven-segment LED. The GPIO interface is hidden in the Python (class) file and you don’t need to worry about how that works if you don’t want to. I have included instructions (including pin set up), the Python class file and a demo program.

Let’s Do It Activities Designed as lesson starters for component 2 - revision of the different data conversion methods: Binary to denary and vice versa, binary to hexadecimal and vice versa, denary to hexadecimal and vice versa, binary addition, binary shift to the left, binary shift to the right, and finally as mentioned in the spec, (how to calculate) the check digit. Each conversion is illustrated through worked examples and tips on how to convert with three practice questions that students can work on independently. In my lessons, I will have a folder with the solutions in so that students can self-mark once they have completed the activity. To follow shortly: Let’s Do It Activities for Sorting & Searching Algorithms and Logic Gates.

These worksheets are designed to enable students for both the aspects Python and Pseudocode with basic structure. Students will be able to learn Python as well as Pseudocode side-by-side. This worksheet consists of 4 parts respectively.

This worksheet is designed to enable students for both the aspects Python and Pseudocode. Students will be able to learn Python as well as Pseudocode side-by-side. This worksheet consists of 4 parts respectively.

This worksheet is designed to enable students for both the aspects Python and Pseudocode. Students will be able to learn Python as well as Pseudocode side-by-side. This worksheet consists of 4 parts respectively.

This worksheet is designed to enable students for both the aspects Python and Pseudocode. Students will be able to learn Python as well as Pseudocode side-by-side. This worksheet consists of 4 parts respectively.

This worksheet is designed to enable students for both the aspects Python and Pseudocode. Students will be able to learn Python as well as Pseudocode side-by-side. This worksheet consists of 4 parts respectively.

This Microsoft Access-Excel-Word Combo has been designed for students who are taking the Cambridge Information & Communication Technology 0417 syllabus, or any other syllabus requiring the knowledge of Access, Excel and Word. It consists of 272 pages. It is a PDF file. It is in full colour. By clicking on an item in the menu, the user will be taken to that item. By clicking on any page number, the user will be returned to the menu. It is in landscape format. The aspect ration is 16:9. This module has been design to fit Monitors, Tablets and Smartphones.

This a sample of the Windows 8 module

Microsoft Windows has been designed for students who are taking the Cambridge Information & Communication Technology 0417 syllabus, or any other syllabus requiring the knowledge of operating system. It consists of 73 pages. It is a PDF file. It is in full colour. By clicking on an item in the menu, the user will be taken to that item. By clicking on any page number, the user will be returned to the menu. It is in landscape format. The aspect ration is 16:9. This eBooks has been design to fit Monitors, Tablets and Smartphones.

This is a KS3 Year 9 lesson I taught around the political and economic impacts of ICT (topic 22). This lesson gets students to look at a range of articles, looking at the impact of corruption politically and how ICT could have a positive and negative influence. Included: PPT Starter Links to research on corruption ** I had to remove the images for the plenary due to copyright however I have left the names on each slide so is still possible to play, if necessary you can simply add the images back.

This resource introduces R081. In this the students will gain an understand of: Mood boards Mind maps Visualisation diagrams This resources comes with a learning for the students to be able to evidence any of the work they have produced.

This unit covers learning aim A1 and is the first five lessons of the BTEC Digital Information Technology qualification. We have broken this down into the following Presentations: Definitions of user interface Basic user interfaces Complex user interfaces Choosing the correct interface Hardware and Software and how it affects an interface These have been broken up with directed class work during them so you can break them into as many lessons are you need. This comes with an** 18 page work book**.

This exercise is aimed at KS3 students that have a basic understanding of Flowgorithm. It can also be used to help students studying GCSE as a simple assessment. It is ideal for a class task or as an extended homework task. Once students have completed this they should have a firm understanding of: Concatenation using Flowgorithm Selection using Flowgorithm

This is an ideal resource for KS4 students. This resources helps students to understand: Trace tables Programming GCSE theory Logic Gates

This activity this aimed at KS4 students, it is ideal as an extended homework task or a class task to help teach: Binary, Denary Hex conversions Binary additional File size conversions

This is a sample of the Access, Excel and Word combination files.

A unit of work teaching children key e-safety concepts relating to online activity and reputation. Unit focuses upon blogging as an outcomes and structures much of the e-safety related themes around this main activity. Use of a free blogging site is needed, of which there are many avaialble. Teachers should sign up for an education account and set up a user for each of the children they teach. Seven Lessons: LO: To know how to practise good e-safety. LO: To know how online communication can be interpreted in different ways. LO: To identify the features of a strong password. LO: To know how to create and edit a blog. LO: To know that not all the information on the internet is accurate. LO: To know what cyberbullying is and how to protect yourself against it. LO: To know how to comment appropriately on the internet.

This is a PDF file that includes Access-Excel-Word. Please see sample of Access, Excel and Word for contents.

A unit of work teaching children about e-safety relating to the use of search engines. Also included is some teaching of the technical processes behind how engines work. The unit ends with a mini project where children are taught how to use what they have learnt about search engines in order to research an idea relating to their curriculum topic. Seven Lessons: LO: To know how a search engine functions. LO: To know how to use search engines effectively to get appropriate results. LO: To know how to save and share websites safely. LO: To know how webpages are ranked in search results. LO: To know the risks involved in online communication. LO: To know how to select an idea to research. LO: To know how to use a search engine safely to complete research. Unit is targeted at lower key stage 2, but would be suitable for all of key stage 2, if children had not experienced this topic already.

Currently, electronic switches in the form of transistors and diodes are the building blocks for computers and other electronic devices. Scientists at the University of Oxford are researching how electricity flows in nanoscale electronics. In the future it may be possible to create electronic switches that are based on individual molecules. In this lesson students find out a bit more about the development of electronic components over the years and are introduced to logic gates and truth tables. Learning outcomes: Students are able to recall that computers are made up of components that have become smaller and more efficient over time. Students are able to predict the outputs of basic logic gates given specific inputs. Students are able to create and interpret truth tables for simple logic gates. See more at: www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/content/how-does-electricity-flow-through-small-objects

Much of our modern life involves receiving and transmitting data; watching TV, posting on social media, sending emails etc. Although we might want to receive something complicated like sound and moving images, in order to process and send the information it is first converted into a set of numbers. The numbers are stored and processed on the computer as binary code which consists of only two options, usually written as 1 and 0. This is often referred to as binary or digital. This lesson looks at how sound can be encoded into digital form. Learning Outcomes: Sound waves can be represented visually on an oscilloscope or similar. How amplitude and wavelength are related to volume and pitch. To store and process sound, computers have to convert analogue signals such as sound waves into numbers (digital). See more at: www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/content/what-are-quantum-rainbows

A huge amount of data is transmitted and received using light down fibre optic cables. Currently that information is sent digitally using binary code (i.e the light can be ‘on’ or ‘off’ representing 1 or 0 respectively. Scientists from the QCUMbER project, led by the University of Oxford, are looking at clever ways to encode light with more ‘colour’ options than just on or off. Increasing the number of colour options, increases the amount of information each bit of light can convey. In this resource, students learn how information can be converted into code, such as binary (using 1s and 0s), or how using colours instead of just ‘on’ and ‘off’ can allow you to encode more information with fewer ‘bits’. Learning outcomes: Data is often converted into binary/digital code For light, binary means on or off If we could use ‘colours’ we could send more data with a single bit of light See more at: https://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/content/what-are-quantum-rainbows

This module has been designed for the Cambridge Information and Communication Technology syllabus 0417, or any other syllabus requiring knowledge of Word. It consists of 93 pages. It is in full colour. It is a PDF file By clicking on an item in the menu. the user will be taken to that item. By clicking on any page number, the user will be returned to the menu. It is in landscape format. The aspect ration is 16:9 This module has been design to fit on Monitors, Tablets and Smartphones.

This is a sample of the Word module.

This a sample of the Windows 7 module.

This lesson is ideal for helping students use Flowgorithm. It introduces the concepts of variables and data types in Flowgorithm. This can be used at KS3 and KS4 as an introduction to programming. The students will create two flowcharts during this lesson: 1) A very simple one that uses inputs 2) A grade calculator that takes input from the user. Once students have completed this lesson they will be able to use Flowgorithm to: Get the user to enter an input. Use concatenation. Make decisions based on user input. This includes a paper based exercise for the students to use in class or it can be used as homework.

This lesson introduces the idea of Computational Thinking. It teaches students the fundamentals that are used throughout the GCSE Computer Science topic. This can be taught to KS3 or KS4 and is the first lesson of six within this package. This lesson covers decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction and algorithms. The exercises then help students practice their understanding before moving onto flowcharts.

KS2 Literacy - Sunflower Lifecycle Sequencer (Simple) This is an interactive activity for pupils to sequence the stages of a sunflower’s lifecycle. This is a simple version containing four steps that need to be sequenced. Each picture has a written description with accompanying audio. Pupils are tasked with dragging the pictures into the cyclical diagram and placing them in the right order. Click the winder to rotate the images and press the play button to see and hear the sequence. This is a great resource to use as an introduction to sequencing and explanation writing.

KS1 Literacy - Seasons Sequencer (Simple) This is an interactive activity for pupils to sequence the seasons. This is a simple version containing four steps that need to be sequenced. Each picture has a written description with accompanying audio. Pupils are tasked with dragging the pictures into the cyclical diagram and placing them in the right order. Click the winder to rotate the images and press the play button to see and hear the sequence. This is a great resource to use as an introduction to sequencing and explanation writing.

KS2 Literacy - Frog Lifecycle Sequencer (Simple) This is an interactive activity for pupils to sequence the stages of a frog’s lifecycle. This is a simple version containing four steps that need to be sequenced. Each picture has a written description with accompanying audio. Pupils are tasked with dragging the pictures into the cyclical diagram and placing them in the right order. Click the winder to rotate the images and press the play button to see and hear the sequence. This is a great resource to use as an introduction to sequencing and explanation writing.

KS2 Literacy - Hedgehog Lifecycle Sequencer (Simple) This is an interactive activity for pupils to sequence the stages of hedgehog’s lifecycle. This is a simple version containing four steps that need to be sequenced. Each picture has a written description with accompanying audio. Pupils are tasked with dragging the pictures into the cyclical diagram and placing them in the right order. Click the winder to rotate the images and press the play button to see and hear the sequence. This is a great resource to use as an introduction to sequencing and explanation writing.

KS1 Literacy - Create and Interactive Presentation - Making a Picture on the Computer This is an interactive activity for exploring instructional language. As a whole-class activity, click through the presentation on making a picture on the computer to create a set of instructions. Rehearse with the pupils how they would instruct in the imperative mood or the impersonal, second person, present tense etc.

KS1 Literacy - Interactive Sequencer - Making a Picture on the Computer This is an interactive sequencing activity. Pupils begin by reviewing the instructions to make a picture on the computer, and are then tasked with dragging them into the timeline in the correct order. The sequence can be played back to check if it sounds and looks right. Students can then add their own captions to the images, providing more detail and description. This is a great resource for pupils to explore independently or in small groups.

KS1/KS2 Literacy - Vehicles - Information Worksheet This worksheet contains images of different vehicles with a blank space underneath for pupils to record the information they know about each vehicle. This is a great resource to use as the basis for a writing task. Pupils can expand on the notes they have taken for vehicles by developing it into an information booklet.

KS2 Literacy - Butterfly Lifecycle Sequencer (Simple) This is an interactive activity for pupils to sequence the stages of a butterfly’s lifecycle. This is a simple version containing four steps that need to be sequenced. Each picture has a written description with accompanying audio. Pupils are tasked with dragging the pictures into the cyclical diagram and placing them in the right order. Click the winder to rotate the images and press the play button to see and hear the sequence. This is a great resource to use as an introduction to sequencing and explanation writing.

KS1/KS2 Literacy - Planets and Space - Information Worksheet This worksheet contains images of different planets and space with a blank space underneath for pupils to record the information they know about each. This is a great resource to use as the basis for a writing task. Pupils can expand on the notes they have taken for planets and space by developing it into an information booklet.

KS1/KS2 Literacy - Plants and Trees - Information Worksheet This worksheet contains images of different plants and trees with a blank space underneath for pupils to record the information they know about each plant. This is a great resource to use as the basis for a writing task. Pupils can expand on the notes they have taken for plants by developing it into an information booklet.

KS2 Literacy - Vehicles Interactive Information Website This mock website provides an alternative way of presenting information.It allows pupils to search for information safely within a carefully written and closed environment. Pupils use the links to navigate around and find key items of information or enter their own search criteria. This is a great resource to use for the basis of writing an information booklet or text. Students can explore the website independently or in groups, making notes on the key information throughout.