Excel model used to allow students to see how spreadsheets can be used to plan how to earn enough pocket money within a given time. Used with year 7 and 8s . Great as an introduction to how Spreadsheet can be used to make preditions / financial planning. Fully updatable, allows student to investigate and adjust the number of jobs and money earnt in order to earn enough money to be able to afford the Playstation. Includes a number of different graphs and the scenario that the model is based on and explains how the model is used.

General questionnaire to find out how much students understand about their own home wireless network Activity that explains in basic terms how a modem works

Used in Year 8 and 9 to introduce Students to Computer Science and gets them away from standard software such as Python, Scratch. Great for cross -curricular links - Physics/Electronics/Programming/Technology. A set of resources that explains how to make programming more fun interactive using LEDs, Buzzers controlled by the Arduino micro-controller. Students are introduced to an Arduino circuit building simulator to practise how to create circuits using a breadboard and how to connect to Arduino and code to control their circuits. Includes : source code, circuit diagrams, and photographs of set ups and videos programs running. Information about how the Arduino works and where the best place to buy all the components you need. Also see my other resources designed in Tinkercad.

Activities explaining how to create music using a simple buzzer. Circuit diagrams, photos and source code. Introduces for loops to control melodies

Introduces why arrays are used in programming using - lots of practical examples.

A crossword with answers created in Microsoft Excel which is designed to be used as the first lesson after watching a video - link provided in heading of Crossword. Students research key terms such as Browser, internet, Homepage World wide web, Broadband, Server ,Fibre optic cable , Internet service provide Client ,www , then identify them in the crossword.

Creating an an attractive Poster on A Super Hero conference (lots of images provided) or a Dancing Show : A worksheet showing basic tools needed to format images and text. Created to give Year 7 / 8 students a basic grasp of handling graphics and text using Microsoft Word. Worksheet Step by step screen shots showing how to … Add logos - (all images have a transparent background, so can be overlapped ). Colour page background Insert images from the internet and format them and position them using layers Handle and format shapes Create text using text boxes and format

Exam question from Paper 2 OCR GCSE Paper 2 showing how how to answer using a flow chart, paeudo - code and Python program.

An activity that introduces what a sub program is and the difference between procedures and functions. Students show their understanding by building a Calculator program using Python. Answers provided. Activty sheet with provided

Quick revision s on wave properties, bit rate, bit depth and file size

Resource shows how to build a circuit with leds, distance sensor and a buzzer using a breadboard and how to program using Arduino. Explains how distance ultrasound is used to measure distances in introduces a sequence of if statements to create a reverse parking sensor which uses sequence of lights and alternating tones from a buzzer to simulate a parking sensor using Tinkercad. Introduces for loops to control brightness of an led and changing the tone of a buzzer. Explains how Square waves can be used to output analogue data. Used for year 9 to make coding more engaging in preparation for choosing Computer Science at GCSE.

A tutorial ( part 1 &2) showing how to use Tikercad to create circuits and program with the Arduino Microcontroller. A fun introduction to programming can be used for Year 8 to 11 learners. Used to practise circuit bulding and programming before building their own circuits using leds, breadboard and Arduino connected via usb to their computer. Used with Year 9 to introduce electronics and programming. Lesson 1 : Controlling an led Lesson 2 : Creating a Traffic Light Simulation. Lesson 3 : Creating a strobe light effect - Knight Rider car Tinkercad is great simulation program , students learn quickly and then are much more confident at to being able to take the exported code and build their own circuits. Makes it much easier to manage a class of 25 Year 9s all doing practical.

An introduction for Year 8 students showing them how to get started with creating websites using html. Allowing them to experiment with an easy to use online editor which helps students investigate html, css and other languages in an easy to use online editor. Good introduction before students use a text editor like Notepad or Dreamweaver.

Activity to create a Disney emoji bitmap image in excel to consider file size in terms of number of pixels, number of colours ; bit depth and looks at how to use a compression technique to reduce fiel size. Includes an exam question on lossy and lossless compression.

An introduction to how css can be used internal css to change style in a single webpages to external css to apply to whole websites. Simple explanation with source code and a style switcher - A CV page to show -off tech skills containing a clock animation created using flash actionscript and an iPhone with scrollable screen and interactive buttons using Javascript to allow users to switch styles to plain print view styled page. Shows why Cascading Style sheets are so important. Another example to show how websites can allow users to switch between large and small text. Excellent visual way to explain why websites must allow the user to customise websites in terms of colours, size of text, background images etc, or risk discriminating / isolating users using Cascading Stylesheets. Can be used for all levels.

A worksheet for GCSE computer Science students( Year 9,10,11) used to introduce different ways of transferring data in wired and wireless networks. Looks at difference between Bandwidth and Speed and download and upload speeds.

This resource includes a python program with a commentary and guide that shows exactly the steps a Binary search. GCSE computer science students often find it difficult to understand Searching algorithms. So I have written as basic a program to help explain how it works with full details of how each line of the algorithm works.Includes trace table and code allowing each variable value to be printed as each line is executed.

A worksheet explaining how to create a Security Night light using a Light Dependent Resistor including Serial output to screen. Includes a switch so user can manually turn light on as well. Learners build own circuits, code and test online, then download code and build own circuit and upload code to an Arduino Uno to test.

A worksheet that guides students to create a web page using html containing headings, images, backgrounds formatted using (css) Cascading Style Sheets. Contains extension tasks and all images and code to create the page. Suitable for Year 8 and upwards. Each addition of code is colour coded to make it easier to follow each insertion and gradually develop and create a more complex web page

A resource that test basic understanding of html and css.Includes a missing word activity as an introduction and then students interpret html and css to work out the page that would be displayed. Suitable for Year 8 revision lesson. Students use Microsoft Word to type in answers.