With a few decades of experience teaching Computer Science, Business and IT, this shop has a variety of resources for KS3 Computing as well as the KS4 GCSE Computer Science, GCSE Business, BTEC Business and BTEC TA DIT. More resources coming in the near future.
With a few decades of experience teaching Computer Science, Business and IT, this shop has a variety of resources for KS3 Computing as well as the KS4 GCSE Computer Science, GCSE Business, BTEC Business and BTEC TA DIT. More resources coming in the near future.
Tricky Words Revision Resource
A451 Computer Systems & Programming
Get your students ready for the A451 exam with this keyword sheet.
a) Circle the ones you don't understand
b) Starter: Allocate a word to each member of the class, they need to explain it to the rest of the class
c) Plenary: Choose a word, explain it to leave the lesson
d) Home revision: You need to know what these words mean for the exam,
Fill students with confidence by word recognition.
Good luck to all your students in the exam.
Year 7 Summer Term Assessment.
Understanding Computers.
Differentiated questions on: The computer system, hardware and software.
Following a unit where students were introduced to the workings of a computer, and creating a flash animation on the topic, this assessment checks their understanding of the underlying theory.
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.
Key Stage 3 Computing
Year 8 Spring term assessment.
Introduction to computer networks.
Differentiated questions include: Binary, internet, topologies, client-server networks, cloud storage and encryption.
Introduction to Python workbook.
Assessment of prior knowledge introduced via Scratch.
Introductory tasks.
Workbook used for e-marking, rather than printing out each lesson. Peer and self assessment carried out on computer, then uploaded for teacher marking.
In the previous Programming & Algorithms unit, students were introduced to programming concepts of sequence, selection and iteration using visual-based programming in Scratch.
This unit is the bridge between visual-based programming and text-based programming, and uses a robot to perform tasks using a limited range of instructions (whilst introducing Python syntax).
It is a good unit for re-iterating programming concepts, and also for the concept of 'efficiency' in writing code, using libraries, functions and other programming techniques.
This unit uses the Reeborg website: http://reeborg.ca/reeborg.html to complete the Python challenges.
Data Representation - Numbers
This resource includes the student workbook and the teacher solution showing workings, using my SPI model: Scaffold, Prompt, Independent.
* Challenge 1 - 6 Scaffold
* Challenge 7 - 8 Prompts
* Challenge 9 - 10 Independent
Each challenge comprises of:
1. Binary to denary
2. Binary to hexadecimal
3. Denary to binary
4. Hexadecimal to binary
5. Hexadecimal to denary
6. Denary to hexadecimal
7. Binary addition.
Students will use this workbook as their 'starter activity' in the Autumn term, as their computers are loading - using 'waiting time' productively to get them converting numbers.
Introduce students to Year 7 Computing with Kodu.
Develop/assess mouse control.
Develop/Assess programming skills.
Develop/Assess creativity.
Bring competition into the class from the outset.
A simple challenge to see where the students are at the start of Key Stage 3, and to show them the Computing is fun.
With the first examination of the GCSE Computer Science 9-1 course in May 2018, these resources have been created for revision purposes.
Golden nuggets for component 1&2, along with example exam technique lessons.
Revision lesson:
Each revision lesson gets the students working independently for the first part of the lesson, followed by a review of the answers. A specific area of Component 1 is then revised, and the lesson concludes with a QWC question. If you have longer lessons, you could add in past exam questions from the A451 syllabus which are related.
Independent questions: Memory and Storage
Teacher-led revision: ELCE
QWC question: Technology today
Revision resource for students to revise the key topics of the Unit 1 Online world in preparation for the online test.
Topics include: Online services, communication, software and documents; legislation; networks etc.
How to use a Golden Nugget:
Read a golden nugget.
Read it again.
Look away - what can you remember?
Read it again - what did you forget?
Read it again.
Look away - have you remembered it yet?
Developed specifically for the BTEC Business - Unit 2 Business Finance Exam.
Based directly on the BTEC Syllabus, it covers each element in bitesize chucks.
A simple resource that can be used for independent revision, peer-to-peer Q&A and mix n’ match tasks.
Golden Nugget Technique:
Read a golden nugget.
Read it again.
Look away - what can you remember?
Read it again - what did you forget?
Read it again.
Look away - have you remembered it yet?
Repeat this process and learn the theory in little bitesize chunks
Feedback from Parents Evening: “My child brought these home for revision. Even though I don’t understand the theory, I have the answers in front of me. I ask for a definition and compare his answers to those on the Golden Nugget. I can even give prompts because all the answers are there.”