An incredible amount of generic starter ideas for KS3 computing lessons. They are aligned to the Computing programme of study for Key stage 3: offering you some ready-planned (no teacher time required) starters for your lessons. Generic starters are offered, as well as specialist starters covering the following topics: Computational abstractions Key algorithms Programming Boolean logic Hardware and software Instructions within a computer system Data storage Creative projects Digital artefacts E-Safety All designed to help you improve your practice, and are formatted for you and ready to go! This is also offered as part of the great value bundle KS3 Computing without the planning

35 ideas (starter and plenary included) fully aligned to the KS3 curriculum. Sometimes we all need a little help with a lesson, or want something “out of the box” that can get going in seconds. These are outstanding ideas, and a full lesson can be built from them in minutes. Some are suitable for a few minutes, or can be used as mini-sessions within your lesson. The idea is to save you time with the least preparation time possible. Topics covered include: Computational abstractions Key algorithms Programming Boolean logic Hardware and software Instructions within a computer system Data storage Creative projects Digital artefacts E-Safety

Worksheet designed to help students understand 8-bit binary codes

A series of 12 challenges for your classes, can be used for GCSE students or KS3 classes. All are chosen as being applicable to beginner Python classes.

20 ideas that encompass the Computing Programmes of study for KS3. Some of these ideas are really great, and a full lesson can be built from them, some are suitable as starters or fun mini-sessions within your lesson. Headings: Decorate a Christmas Tree Christmas Myths Create a spreadsheet model A Christmas story in 2016 PowerPoint 12 days of Christmas Cost Create a poster Programming – 12 days of Christmas song 12 days of Christmas – presents programming Celebrations around the world Sorting Bitmaps Photoshop Programming Create Solving problems Naughty or nice Abstraction Reindeer Puzzle Just for fun…

A collection of HTML and CSS posters. Suitable for both KS3 and GCSE levels of ICT / Computing / Computer Science. Useful not only to have on classroom walls but also can be reproduced and handed to your students. Recommended to laminate and to reuse (to help save the environment). Includes poster covering the following topics: Basic html tags HTML colours (infographic) HTML and CSS Anatomy of an HTML page

Basic Python poster cheat sheets. Designed for version 2.6 and 3.4. Also contains a Python data types poster. Python basics (2.6 and 3.4.2) Python advanced (2.6 and 3.4.2) Python data types

Teaches the requirements for GCSE Computer science, and uses a Microsoft Access (database included) to execute SQL commands. 2.2 Programming techniques The use of SQL to search for data SELECT FROM WHERE LIKE AND OR wildcards

Students can discover more about famous computer scientists in a fun and interactive way. Zero preparation for the teacher! From Steve Jobs to Tim Berners-Lee there are many famous computer scientists. But how many do your students know? Students respond to open-ended questions in this nicely presented resource. Two suggestions for delivery: 1. Give all of the students the same computer scientist. Maximum 10 minutes for each. Who can go through the set fastest? 2. Give different groups different computer scientists. Then present.

Teaches students about basic file handing including the basic operations; open, read and write. The full lesson includes booklet and homework. Practical session based around a 60 minute lesson. This resource uses Python version 3.4

A complete session (could be a lesson, could be longer if you wanted) to get students to create a website. Full instructions provided - give them the files and the booklet and go. They love changing the text and images and it's all related the the computing curriculum! No special software required, uses notepad and Internet Explorer (all Windows computers have these installed)

Teaches students about two dimenstional arrays (lists). The full lesson includes booklet and homework. Practical session based around a 60 minute lesson. This resource uses Python version 3.4

For the AQA GCSE 9-1 Specification, and also suitable for OCR J276. Contains a series of tasks for revision around binary gates for students to use.

For the AQA GCSE 9-1 Specification, and also suitable for OCR J276. Contains a series of tasks for revision around ASCII and character sets for students to use in preparation for their exams.

A programming task to teach about selection. I use this with Python, but it is not a language dependent task. Helpful for talking about indentation.

Tablet Design cover lesson - suitable for computing courses from KS3 to KS4

Simple guide for the blocks screen and the designer screen. Designed for App Inventor 2