A colour diagram activity sheet and separate worksheet to facilitate teaching of the function of the CPU and main memory using the Von Neumann architecture.
These resources are designed to teach 1.1 Systems architecture from the OCR GCSE (9-1) specification (or equivalent sections for other exam boards). The aim is to make a more 'hands-on' way of delivering a topic that can be quite abstract and hard for pupils to visualise.
The activity sheet should ideally be laminated and then pupils can use whiteboard pens to add simple commands (in assembly language, or a simplified version) into the memory address spaces. You can then 'run' the program by transferring values into the correct registers, and then developing pupil understanding of the Fetch (Decode) Execute cycle.
The accompanying worksheet includes a smaller version of the same diagram and spaces for pupils to complete a description of the function/purpose of each of the key components and registers (including PC, MAR, MDR, ACC, and Control Unit, ALU and cache). This could be used in various ways differentiated to the needs of your class - simply dictating definitions to pupils, asking them to complete it at the end of a lesson to consolidate learning, or as a homework to check pupil understanding.
Editable Publisher files and PDFs are both included, along with Teacher notes including an example 'assembly language' program to run.
These resources are designed to teach 1.1 Systems architecture from the OCR GCSE (9-1) specification (or equivalent sections for other exam boards). The aim is to make a more 'hands-on' way of delivering a topic that can be quite abstract and hard for pupils to visualise.
The activity sheet should ideally be laminated and then pupils can use whiteboard pens to add simple commands (in assembly language, or a simplified version) into the memory address spaces. You can then 'run' the program by transferring values into the correct registers, and then developing pupil understanding of the Fetch (Decode) Execute cycle.
The accompanying worksheet includes a smaller version of the same diagram and spaces for pupils to complete a description of the function/purpose of each of the key components and registers (including PC, MAR, MDR, ACC, and Control Unit, ALU and cache). This could be used in various ways differentiated to the needs of your class - simply dictating definitions to pupils, asking them to complete it at the end of a lesson to consolidate learning, or as a homework to check pupil understanding.
Editable Publisher files and PDFs are both included, along with Teacher notes including an example 'assembly language' program to run.
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