An easy to follow assessment based around Scratch and key programming concepts. Q1 covers “sequencing”, Q2 covers “variables”, Q3 covers “sequencing”, Q4 covers “operators” and Q5 covers “iteration” and “debugging”. There is an easy to follow mark scheme and a revision powerpoint which could be set as homework, prior to the assessment. It is ideal for KS3, especially Year 7 or 8 and is really well differentiated, as there are easy questions and then increasingly trickier ones. It can be set as an end of unit assessment or as a baseline test to find out how much students already know about key programming terms, such as sequencing, variables, selection and iteration.

A fun, engaging and highly practical lesson, in a series of five, that introduces the basics of sound editing with Audacity. Students get to learn what sound is, how it travels and are introduced to the Audacity interface. They then get to make a radio advert by importing multiple sound files. The audio files are all provided and there are three video tutorials (of me talking and demonstrating) to follow for self-paced learning and students that need support. It is a complete lesson, with an accompanying powerpoint, a fun starter task and a plenary in the powerpoint.

A fun, engaging and practical sound editing lesson that teaches noise reduction and splitting a track into multiple tracks. Students get to learn some new terms, such as pitch, frequency and acoustics. There are two excellent video tutorials to follow (on Youtube) for students that need support. This is the 2nd lesson in a series of 5.

A fun, engaging and practical sound editing lesson that involves making a radio advert by importing multiple tracks. All the tracks are provided. Students use their skills in Audacity from previous lessons to make a sixty second advert about being cyber secure. This is the 4th lesson in a series of 5.

A fun, engaging and practical sound editing lesson that teaches sound effects such as noise reduction, change pitch, change tempo, fade in, reverb and wahwah. There is an excellent video tutorial to follow (on Youtube) for students that need support. This is the 3rd lesson in a series of 5.

A fun, engaging and practical sound editing lesson using Audacity and its many effects. Task 1 allows you to transform my voice into that of a dragon. Task 2 uses five tracks to create a musical techno track by following two detailed video tutorials. Task 3 is a fun task to create a robot voice, using my voice as a sample. This is the fifth and final lesson in a series of 5. There is a short multiple choice assessment with a mark scheme.

A lesson on using Adobe Fireworks to make a web button, rollover buttons and a gel button. Each task has its own link to a video tutorial with sound. As well as introducing students to vector and raster graphics and important key terms it has practical and differentiated tasks based around the theme of recycling, with each task becoming more challenging.

This is an introductory lesson, in a series of four, that teaches complete beginners the basic features of Microsoft Excel with multiple short and easy to follow tasks based on using formatting tools like Fill Color, Borders, Numbers and Alignment, to name a few. It is followed by similarly structured lessons on how to use formulas, then one on functions and finally one on charts and graphs. There is also an assessment for a fifth lesson with a mark scheme. The lessons are wonderfully practical, well-paced and easy to follow for all abilities. Each task should take about 5 minutes with the challenge task at the end bringing together all the skills the students have been practicing during the session. It really does build confidence in a fun and relaxed way and I hope you find it as useful as I have.

A fun and engaging lesson that introduces students to behavioural economics, its history and relevance and how its assumptions differ from those of traditional economics. The powerpoint introduces and explains (with useful examples) the key concepts of rational behaviour, bounded rationality, heuristics and bounded self-control. There are activities in the powerpoint to check for students’ understanding. There is then a really useful worksheet which provides a word bank and then gets students to answer short A level type questions, with relevant terms from the word bank. I have provided a mark scheme to the worksheet with detailed answers to each question.