A starter activity that gets students to think of related keywords to create phrases. All keywords and phrases are linked to Computer Science.
Estimated time 10 - 15 minutes (Based on my year 10 GCSE mixed ability class)
Revision notes on layering and OSI. TCP/IP research section.
Idea of the TCP/IP section is that students should be able to use the notes to state key processes that take place in each layer.
A booklet to record arguments for and against debate topics related to computer science. Space for students to formulate a written response (9 mark test answer)
Topics:
Necessity of the Internet
Security Cameras
Video Games
Censorship
A revision/teaching aid worksheet (Double sided) That includes explanations and examples of binary logic notations, Truth Table tasks, Logic gate diagram tasks.
A 25 page booklet of computer science revision - I have printed this as an A5 booklet and given it as an extended homework task.
Topics include:
File Sizes
Representing Data (Binary, Hex, ASCII, UNICODE, Images, Sound)
File Types
Binary & Linear Searching
Bubble Sort
Network Topologies
Software
Hardware
Databases
Protocols
8 page PDF document with a Karnaugh map on each page.
Answer booklet included showing groups and final solutions.
I have used these sheets after teaching this topic as a starter to ensure over a number of lessons that the students haven’t forgotten how to find boolena expressions from a Karnaugh map representation.
A python programming challenge where students are expected to write a program that checks if a password is considered to be strong. The password must be greater than a certain length, include numbers, symbols, upper & lower case letters, not contain certain words or number pattens.
The booklet includes:
A tick sheet for when students have managed a certain task
A test plan to check that certain passwords are ‘strong’ or not
Some useful snipits of python code that will assist the students.
An extension task.
Good practice for string manipulation.
Depending on your group ability, this could be a 1 or 2 lesson activity.
A booklet of key topic areas -
Students think up potential moral, ethical, social and cultural issues associated with:
Artificial Intelligence
Computers in the workforce
Monitoring Behaviour
Censorship of the Internet
etc.. (Taken from the OCR A Level specification)
Binary logic puzzles - Encourage logical problem solving skills.
Starter / Extension task - This PDF document comes with three challenging binary number puzzles with each page containing some practice grids.
A-Level Computer Science - Exam Style Questions
Double sided worksheet with over 20 questions on the following topics:
CPU - Difference between Von Neumann & Harvard; Clock Speed,
Logic Gates; The purpose of a D Type Flip Flop,
Big Data; Data Mining,
Databases, Features, Key terms,
Programming, Functional, High-level, Assembly Language, Machine Code.
Stacks & Queues Data Structure Worksheet - Used for revision
Practice Pushing and Popping stacks and queues
Describing using key terms
Looking at their uses
A booklet containing explanations and exercises on binary number conversion, hexadecimal number conversion, ASCII and Unicode.
Activities include:
Converting numbers
Binary number pattern worms
Hex Grid Challenge
ASCII word challenge
Unicode Emoji Challenge