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.

A quiz for the class for the end of summer term 2016. Can be used from year 7 to 11, but aligns with the KS3 national curriculum. Either run with one answer sheet per pupil or put the students into teams.

Poster with top tips for revision.

A quiz for the class for the end of autumn term 2016. Can be used from year 7 to 11, but loosely aligns with the KS3 national curriculum (it's Christmas themed!). Either run with one answer sheet per pupil or put the students into teams and let them choose a scribe. Happy Christmas to everyone who downloads this.

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

This is a classic diamond ranking grid. The students can rank some concepts into order. Better still, the students can be given a case study, develop their own list of concepts and then order them . You can use this in different ways: • Print out the sheets • Print out concepts for students to arrange on the printed sheets • Print out the concepts and get students to arrange without the template • Project a completed sheet onto an interactive whiteboard and get the students to drag the boxes around • Enlarge the sheet onto A3 and get them laminated. Students can then use the sheets with a pack of Whiteboard pens to enable a wipe clean board.

A free resource so students can understand the important concept of variables. There is a free (forever) accompanying website https://medium.com/@studeappsblog/what-is-a-variable-dd7e539bf388 that also provides some great information, but here you will access the worksheets and lesson plan that will make your lesson that bit easier! This free resouce contains: Completion certificate Brainstorming task Definitions task Variables worksheet Video Website resource Lesson plan 30 Seconds lesson plan

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

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.

Poster displaying the parts of a computer in PDF format

Poster to help explain the difference between hardware and software.

Flashcards in colour designed to be cut in half and treasury tagged. Topics: Vector and Bitmap images Selection tools Layers Add a new layer Duplicate Layer Spot healing tool Image adjustment layer Combining images

A computer ethics poster set. Would be great to put in any computer room

This is a certificate that you can use in classes to celebrate success. Easy to personalise (you don’t need special software). Presented in both Black and white and colour. Print as many as you need for your class: perhaps even laminate them and get them to stick into their homework diaries or planners.

British Prime Minister Theresa May called a General Election for 8th June 2017. This web quest, suitable for KS2 and KS3 is a great way to have a discussion, or for you to use up those few extra minutes in a computer room.

A worksheet for Python 3.x for Christmas - make a Xmas night picture. No Presentation for this, I'd give them the files and the worksheet and let them do it! Students will find this easier if they know something about variables, loops and preferably functions (although they can always look things up on the web to get this working)

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

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…

Students learn about how installing Apps onto mobile phones needs some consideration. Learning objectives: o Be aware that Apps from alternative sources may not be safe o Understand that you exchange some element of privacy in exchange for using Apps on a phone The narrative flow of the lesson follows the following: • How malware is installed on computers • How malware is social engineering - making people install Pokémon go from other sources is dangerous • Pokémon Go is actually known as malware for some people! • Pokémon Go was just the type of App that people were excited to get they would take risks for: but was this worth it?

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