Short tasks for BTEC Public Services to help students gather and produce information for their essays or assignments. These are relevant for Unit 1 Government, Policies and the Public Services.

A range of resources and activities to allow you to effectively deliver the Digital Literacy 'web searching' strand.

This is a sheet that can be used by pupils to analyse their own performance following mock exams or similar types of assessment. It asks them to reflect on how well they revised, what questions did they make silly mistakes on; which were easy for them; what areas to focus on in the future etc. which in these days of teacher accountability may be useful evidence to keep! There is an editable word document which just needs you to edit the exam grade boundaries for your own and a .PDF file without them that you can use straight away.

A self contained presentation on how to set up Level 0 and Level 1 Data Flow Diagrams. Can be used for GCSE and A Level lessons or as a revision aid.

Been given the task to run a stall for a charity event in school? Short of time? Just download this activity where pupils guess the name of the teddy bear (not supplied). Blow the sheet up to A3 and you are all set - saves getting soaked in the sponge throwing stall!

Assembly suitable for use in form groups or as a whole school assembly. There are two videos embedded and speaker notes are included in the presentation to use yourself or to allocate to pupils to read out. With thanks to the Royal British Legion.

A set of questions on RAM, ROM, Virtual Memory, Cache Memory etc. which can be used in two ways. Ask the class to work through C to A* or just give the relevant questions to pupils working towards that grade. Supplied as an editable word document and in .PDF format.

Presentation suitable to be used with KS3 or KS4 ICT students about the digital divide. Based around the questions which were in the Edexcel ICT June 2014 exam.

Storyboarding lesson suitable to be used at all levels. The pupils complete different storyboards depending on their ability before the actual completed storyboards are shown to them for them to compare against. They are then provided with a template to complete for their own work. This lesson was used successfully to teach this topic to OCR Nationals ICT students.

Selection & use of storage requirements, media & devices, different types of media and what the best use of them would be.

Linked List questions with answers. Can be used as a lesson resource to check understanding of how to work out Linked List's as diagrams and as Tables including adding and removing items.

A research task which allows KS4 and KS5 students to practice finding and summarising information. Useful for upper 6th form as it encourages them to use the Harvard Referencing System.

Designed for BTEC Level 3 Public Services but would be suitable for level 2 students. Covers P3 for Unit 8 War and Terrorism. Has a recap on prior lessons where they created drawings of what a terrorist looks like and who the IRA are, videos on the mindset of terrorists, 911 news video footage, an activity to challenge the students idea of what a terrorist is, methods of terrorists activity, scenarios to write a news article as part of P3. (I used this as part of a wall display which I then photographed as evidence)

All questions for the INFO 3 AQA specification broken down by topic. For AQA but would suit most exam boards. Questions, answers and examiner reports. The only think you have to do now is get the students to actually use them for revision!

12 marks, ideal for a strater task or homework. Includes mark scheme. Covers security, firewalls, securing a contempary tablet device etc.

Suitable for grades 2 to 7. GCSE Compuer Science (All boards)

Allows toy to teach the class how to set up and use a simple Visual Basic login screen. The code for the button event can be pasted in from the work document or the .PDF version can be made available on your network if you want the class to type in manually.

If you used to be an ICT teacher but are now forced to teach computing then this resource is for you! This is a lesson that will allow you to teach pupils how to create a simple calculator in Visual Basic. There is also a starter or plenary Bingo activity complete with call list and the VB code which should allow you to quickly set up an exemplar to show tot he class. The presentation is structured in an easy to follow way in stages that can be delivered from the front of the classroom or accessed individually by the students. There are screen shots to help and also things to tell the students to look out for in the speaker notes part of the presentation with guidance on extending the task for more able pupils.

IP Addressing, what it is, the different classes, subnets etc.

Simple guide to setting up an account using Powtoons animation online software with some challenges for pupils to work on.