With a few decades of experience teaching Computer Science, Business and IT, this shop has a variety of resources for KS3 Computing as well as the KS4 GCSE Computer Science, GCSE Business, BTEC Business and BTEC TA DIT. More resources coming in the near future.
With a few decades of experience teaching Computer Science, Business and IT, this shop has a variety of resources for KS3 Computing as well as the KS4 GCSE Computer Science, GCSE Business, BTEC Business and BTEC TA DIT. More resources coming in the near future.
Target: Year 3
Group: Pupils struggling with keeping letters the correct way round
Background to resource: This resource was developed to help my son in Year 3 with his handwriting. He saw handwriting as a 'chore' and when tired, he would put letters facing in the wrong direction. We named the groups of letters that he commonly got wrong, and discussed them in terms of facing towards the left hand (gdqy) and the right-hand (bkpts), and then he practised using my guide. His letters generally face in the correct direction now, so I hope this resource can help other teachers too.
Hit by the announcement this week that the ECDL no longer counts!
Year 10 half way through the course?
Need an alternative quick?
The BTEC First Award in Information and Creative Technology is the solution.
In this presentation, as shared with my Year 10, is how I have developed the BTEC to motivate and engage students in a new course focus.
Spreadsheet for tracking student progress against syllabus content for the A265 & A267 exams.
Useful for identifying where key revision and support is needed for the final cohort of this qualification.
Ensure you have covered all the course content required in order to enable your students to pass.
How can students prepare for the A267 exam if they don't have a computer at home?
Get them to think through the process they would go through in the exam, to complete the A267 exam.
Before and after screenshots of tasks in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Access: How did the student get from Point A to Point B.
Great for revision, class discussion or home learning.
A simple resource to revise the key skills required in the A451 Programming unit.
Idea of use in lesson:
2 minute madness game - "Explain to the person beside you the items on the memory jogger in 2 minutes". The other person then writes down what they remember. Then you move round one, to the next person, and do the next memory jogger in the pack.
Self & Peer Assessment Wheels.
Laminate and put by computers during assessment and then as part of the self and peer assessment process, so that students see what is required for 'Emerging', 'Developing', 'Secure' or 'Exceeding' expectations.
The Name Game
'Easy Markers' - Ensure your students get the 'identification' questions in the A451 exam with these knowledge wheels.
Use them as discussion tools, plenary activities or for 1-2-1 revision with low ability students.
After the Introduction of Python unit, I wanted to check my students understood the programming concepts of selection, iteration, variables etc.
First they created the quiz in Scratch and then in Python, and compared the two.
Let's go Jogging
Revision Lesson
BTEC Business - Unit 2 Finance Costs & Revenues Unit.
2 minutes to discuss the memory joggers
2 minutes back at seat - write down what you remember.
(Teacher - Print out the activity sheets on back-to-back A3 paper if possible as this allows students more space to write).
Assess student understanding of basic concepts of costs and revenues.
Test their ability to identify costs.
Test their ability to calculate costs, revenues, expenditure, profit/loss.
Test provided with the solution in a worksheet in the same file.
Can easily be adapted for subsequent tests.
Supporting the NEW EdExcel BTEC Tech Award
BTEC Tech Award in Digital Information Technology
Personalised Learning Checklists for Component 1 (+ Component 1 Assessment), Component 2 (+ Component 2 Assessment) and Component 3.
Keep a record of student progress against the new syllabus content (1 - Grasped concept, 2 - need to revise, 3 - Did not understand (complete revisit).
Ideal for completing after interim assessment, and will allow easy identification of areas for further teaching and intervention.
PA1 Scratch
Introducing programming concepts through visual-based learning
Programming Concept - Knowledge and Application test
Screenshots provided in the Word document in case you are not using the offline editor Scratch 2.
EdExcel BTEC Tech Award Performing Arts
RAG rate personalised learning checklists for:
Component 1 - Exploring the Performing Arts
Component 2 - Developing Skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts
Component 3 - Performing to a Brief
Incorporate functional skills into the new KS3 Computing curriculum - essential transferable skills for use in other curriculum areas. This scheme of work and self-assessment checklist, will help develop students report writing skills in Microsoft Word, ready for use in KS4 controlled assessment write-up.
