Some questions to assess how well your students have understood the Von Neumann and Harvard architecture of the CPU. Includes answer sheet. One side test, good for a starter or plenary activity. Questions include: GPU - Graphics processing unit Von Neumann Pipelining Hardvard

This lesson introduces constructors to students and talks about the need for setting up the class. There is an example program to work through with a worksheet attached. it shows students how to initialise variables in their program and how to pass items in. This should help students become more confident and builds on nicely from the previous task. If students have been absent they can pick it up quite easily.

This lesson introduces students to using operators such as Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide and Exponentiation. They're also introduced to Mod (working out the remainder) and Quotient (working out the whole number). They're given a number of activities which allow them to apply some of this and will attempt working out the median and mean. After this they're given an activity which gets them to work with the OCR structure. They're required to decompose a problem, list success criteria and build a sleep calculator. They will need to list their variables and on top of this will also need to show the development of their code. The worksheet can be typed in. All operations are explained: - num1+num2 num1-num2 num1*num2 num1/num2 num1**num2 for exponent % used to explain remainder // used to explain whole number part of division Students given extension task / independent research task for finding out the mode.

This is a 50 mark assessment to check students understanding of input, output and storage devices. As the new spec for OCR is quite new. I went through all of the computing spec to find old questions which will map into the new specification. This gives you a good idea of how your students are performing. Students will answer the questions and their is an answer sheet for you to use so that you can mark your students. I currently use the OCR A-Level grade boundaries for a rough idea.

I have used the last 4-5 years of A-Level computing questions to find questions on floating point binary. I have compiled them in a 50 mark test which will test the students on their ability to do the following: - - convert from denary to binary - convert from denary to floating point binary - convert from floating point binary to denary - normalise floating point binary - compare floating point binary numbers to check accuracy Answer sheet has been provided against the spec so that you can see where it's possible to gain marks. I used this against the current grade boundaries to assess where they're currently at.

This task is a worksheet which explains the rules for bitwise operators and it explains some situations of where you might use it. On top of this it gives you a number of questions with an answer sheet which will help support your lesson. It explains the rules of AND, OR and XOR which are on the OCR A-Level Computer Science Syllabus.

This presentation is a follow on after students have already learnt about how the Fetch Execute Decode Cycle. The idea of the presentation is that they can flow on from what they've already learnt. This will focus on the AS Level - Von Neumann / Harvard systems and it explains the difference. Following on from this the students are taught the difference between CISC and RISC. The idea of this will be that they understand how instructions are split. There is a task at the end with requirements for students to build a revision poster at the end.

1.3.2 - Characteristics of networks and the importance of protocols and standards. This lesson is the first part to two lessons on section 1.3.2 of the OCR syllabus. The lesson starts off with some questioning on the CPU which was the topic I covered with students in their recent lesson. Check the PowerPoint notes. Slide break down: - Slide 1 - 4 - We’re learning to explain the characteristics of Networks and the importance of protocols and standards - Learning objective and questions. Asks students what a network is. Slide 5 - A video explaining why we need networks. Slide 6-8 - Explains what is meant by a network. Explains what a LAN and WAN is and uses key points from past computing exam papers to give students what the mark scheme would look for. Slide 9-13 - Looks at different transmission media. Gets students to understand copper and fibre optic. Slide 14 Students share what they did for homework. Slide 15 - 25 Explains topologies and includes a video. Their are unplugged activities which get the students to become the network. Final Activity included

This lesson starts off with some previous exam questions about LAN and WAN. It includes answers and shows students where they can gather their marks. It then explains to students how a protocol works. It gives them an example and gets them to think about their communication. Following on from this there is a video explaining the TCP/IP stack with the 4 layers that they're likely to need to know. Each layer is broken down into key points. There is a single exam style question. Students are then expected to look up the remaining protocols which are used regularly in networks. This task can be through poster, video or other medium.

This presentation introduces operating systems to AS Level Computer Science. Also includes a YouTube link to a video of the teacher presenting this lesson online. Students can have access to this video to re-cap on the lesson afterwards. It covers the following areas *What is an operating system *Functions of an operating system *File management *Device management *Memory management *Process management *Network management *User management *User interface Types of operating system *Distributed *Embedded *Multi-Tasking *Multi-User *Real-Time *Exam Tip

This slide deck includes software development. It looks at the following content through these slides;- *Feasibility *Requirements *Waterfall life cycle *RAD *Spiral *Agile There are some questions are the end and a link to a YouTube video showing me teaching it. It should help you with your delivery.

Slide 2 - Introduces the learning objectives. Slide 3 - Explains the difference between client and server-side processing. Slide 4 - Talks about decision making briefly talking about the difference between performance and security. Slide 5 - Advantages of client-side processing. Slide 6 - Advantages of server-side processing. Slide 7 - Link to a video from craig and dave - computer science teachers. I do not own this content and you're not paying for it. It is an external link to a great video resource. Slide 8 - An exam style question. It has no answer sheet to this question. It's more about getting your students to apply knowledge, application and evaluation. Slide 9 - Example exam questions to support the topic. These are attached in the PDF. Made using an exam builder.

A Powerpoint presentation explaining Big O Notation. There are some examples of code and some graphs which help students visualise what is meant by exponential and the complexity of algorithms. This was useful to my year 13 students and hopefully it will help yours.

This shows students how to design a class with a class diagram. It walks through the need to design classes and there is a worksheet attached that gets the students do design the class and build the program. They can use a number of different programming opportunities with this and it will help them for their A-level project.

Assessment covering the following areas of data representation: - Units - bits, bytes, nibble etc... Numbers - converting to hex, denary and binary Binary Shift How to convert whole denary numbers Characters - use of binary codes Character Sets Images - How to represent images as a series of pixels Images - Metadata included in a file Images - Colour depth and resolution Sound - Sampling rates / Size / Bit Rate / Frequency Compression - Need for compression / types of compression

Objective: - We’re learning to identify the hardware and classification linked with networks. This lesson includes notes in the teacher slides to help teachers understand the content they're delivering with links to videos and also embedded videos. During this lesson students will learn about: Client server models Client-Server Servers available Peer to peer networks Advantages and disadvantages Network hardware NIC Wireless access points Routers Switches Draw your own network diagram

This lesson gives you a structured break down to delivering the Micro:bit lesson for the first time. I have combined this with the Micro:bit book to make the creeper face. In this lesson: - * reason for the Micro:bit and discussion with the students * students given time to read health and safety instructions and feedback to the teacher * how to get onto the website. * pictures to show how to connect to the website * how to download the program in 3 easy steps * how to get the program onto the MicroBit * worksheet with extension * introduction to Selection * Challenge with video

These video tutorials will help you deliver the MicroBit lessons and will also leave some of the tasks open ended. I have uploaded one of the videos for free so that you can see what they're like. The videos in this bank include: - * Spirit Level * Simple Maze Game * Simple LED Lights * Calculator - Add two numbers together using variables * Random number generator * Controlling how an LED moves around the screen * A + B buttons (selection) * How to make crossy roads on the screen * Iteration and moving lights All include some explanation of what has been taught and the key terms needed for programming. This has been done using the blockly editor.

This video is a sample of what you will see in the bank of 9 videos which will help your students get started with the Micro:bit. I hope this is useful and that the other videos will get your students started. This video shows you how to get a light moving left and right using iteration.

When planning a curriculum you might want to use this sheet to help you when planning a curriculum for your school this is an example that I used for my department to help think about the curriculum.