ICT/Computing teacher since 2003 and Vice Principal. Interested in technology, gadgets, game design and software/web development. Owner of Barney - a rather grumpy at times but loveable West Highland Terrier who sometimes features in my resources!
ICT/Computing teacher since 2003 and Vice Principal. Interested in technology, gadgets, game design and software/web development. Owner of Barney - a rather grumpy at times but loveable West Highland Terrier who sometimes features in my resources!
Introduction to AND, OR and NOT gates. Students then complete the truth tables in a worksheet. They can then use the logic.ly website to self-assess whether they got the truth tables correct and create their binary logic gate diagram to program a car safety system.
This lesson looks at how computer graphics have developed and how a simple 1-bit image can be encoded using binary. Students then have the opportunity to encode and decode their own binary images. They need to be able to convert binary to denary and vice versa before doing this lesson.
This lesson introduces binary and compares it to denary. A method of converting denary to binary is then worked through and there are two worksheet activities for students to complete on binary conversion and arithmetic.
Lesson where students learn about the three main storage technologies: optical, magnetic and solid-state. After researching each technology and how it works, they can then apply that knowledge to identify the most appropriate storage technology for each of the given scenarios in the worksheet. There is also an extension worksheet on Cloud storage.
This spreadsheet activity task requires students to use the SUM, MIN, MAX and AVERAGE functions to complete the weekly sales figures for their cinema. They can also demonstrate the use of the fill handle to copy down or along formulas. When the formulas have been added they need to answer the questions below it, using the data above. There is an extension activity which requires students to add conditional formatting to highlight which movies are doing better or worse than the average ticket sales. Teacher Ref version (with answers!) included.
An excel spreadsheet that can be played with a class as a quick recap to ensure they can identify and use cell references and understand that the letter (column) goes before the number (row). When I play this with my classes, students take turns in giving a cell reference which I then click on to display the square underneath. You could play this competitively by dividing the class into two teams and seeing who can sink the most battleships.
