[GCSE+IGCSE] RECORDS ARRAYS FLOWCHARTS

A series of 6 activities (15 lessons following structure below) that can either be used to introduce Records, Arrays and Flow Charts, or as a revision tool at the end of introducing these.

With each activity, I spend time going over the skills at the beginning of the lesson, with the students completing the flow chart in each scenario. For each activity, I have included extension activities to challenge the more advanced students.
After each flow chart is completed, we review the learning at the end of the lesson. The second lesson for each, we review the learning from the previous activity and then code the solutions. I often do these in a mix of group and paired programming scenarios.

This would also work well as a carousel activity, giving a set time at each station or, working in groups, students could implement the solutions for them and present their learning back to the rest of the class

All in, covering theory, taking time to implement the code, and with testing at the end, this short set of activities takes us around 15 lessons and hugely benefited my students in the Paper 2 in the recent exam. There were a few questions which came up with regards to manipulating records / writing to files which, following these activities, my students were very confident with.

This exercise was also used during a Looking For Learning classroom observation.