KS3 Computing Curriculum Linking together: Programming, ICT and Computer Science. Key Concept sheets used to support learning of key terms in lesson.

Designed to help lower-ability students remember basic facts about computer hardware. Input devices Output devices Storage devices - remembering which is which - Magnetic, optical, SSD and Flash. Red - easy to remember, green - try to remember, yellow - you know you want to succeed!

Start a Computing lesson promptly with some numbers! Convert denary to binary - solution provided on final slide in presentation.

Homework to support a Year 9 unit on spreadsheets.

Homework project based on unit looking at Data Analysis by Tesco.

Using spreadsheets to calculate Mean, Mode and Median. Supporting cross-curricular numeracy in the Computing department.

Key Stage 3 Computer Science HTML & Dreamweaver Unit Systems Security Website Lesson 7 - Identifying Vulnerabilities & External Hyperlinks Practical: External Hyperlinks using HTML code Theory: Identifying vulnerabilities in computer networks

GCSE Computer Science 9-1 Assessment on unit covered so far: Systems Architecture - Von Neumann Architecture, Components of the CPU. Translators & Facilitators - Low Level Language, Assembly Language and High Level Language. Algorithm - Binary search and merge sorting. Teacher assessment criteria (Low Ability, Medium Ability, High Ability)

Hit by the announcement this week that the ECDL no longer counts! Year 10 half way through the course? Need an alternative quick? The BTEC First Award in Information and Creative Technology is the solution. In this presentation, as shared with my Year 10, is how I have developed the BTEC to motivate and engage students in a new course focus.

The Name Game 'Easy Markers' - Ensure your students get the 'identification' questions in the A451 exam with these knowledge wheels. Use them as discussion tools, plenary activities or for 1-2-1 revision with low ability students.

Homework to support Year 9 unit on Technological Development.

How can students prepare for the A267 exam if they don't have a computer at home? Get them to think through the process they would go through in the exam, to complete the A267 exam. Before and after screenshots of tasks in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher and Access: How did the student get from Point A to Point B. Great for revision, class discussion or home learning.

A simple resource to revise the key skills required in the A451 Programming unit. Idea of use in lesson: 2 minute madness game - "Explain to the person beside you the items on the memory jogger in 2 minutes". The other person then writes down what they remember. Then you move round one, to the next person, and do the next memory jogger in the pack.

After the Introduction of Python unit, I wanted to check my students understood the programming concepts of selection, iteration, variables etc. First they created the quiz in Scratch and then in Python, and compared the two.

Supporting the NEW EdExcel BTEC Tech Award BTEC Tech Award in Digital Information Technology Personalised Learning Checklists for Component 1 (+ Component 1 Assessment), Component 2 (+ Component 2 Assessment) and Component 3. Keep a record of student progress against the new syllabus content (1 - Grasped concept, 2 - need to revise, 3 - Did not understand (complete revisit). Ideal for completing after interim assessment, and will allow easy identification of areas for further teaching and intervention.

PA1 Scratch Introducing programming concepts through visual-based learning Programming Concept - Knowledge and Application test Screenshots provided in the Word document in case you are not using the offline editor Scratch 2.

Incorporate functional skills into the new KS3 Computing curriculum - essential transferable skills for use in other curriculum areas. This scheme of work and self-assessment checklist, will help develop students report writing skills in Microsoft Word, ready for use in KS4 controlled assessment write-up.

Interleaving lesson - testing theory already taught and focusing on areas for further study: Independent questions: Data Representation/Truth tables Independent questions: Programming Techniques/Data Types DTT Revision: Flowchart symbols, languages, IDE and binary shifts Teacher-led question: Databases Teacher-led questions: SQL pseudocode

EdExcel BTEC - Syllabus checklists, with RAG rating. Unit 1 Online World Unit 3 Digital Portfolio Unit 4 Digital Animation Unit 6 Digital Graphics

End of term activity comparing Scratch and Python. Lists Sequence Selection User Input Variables Output. Based on the 12 Days of Christmas songs. First 4 days completed in Scratch and Python to give the structure of the code for students to complete the challenge for the other 8 days. A bit of programming fun to end the term. (Python code included in notepad - copy and paste into Python; screenshots of Scratch code, in case the file won't open). Merry Christmas.