A starter activity that gets students to think of related keywords to create phrases. All keywords and phrases are linked to Computer Science.
Estimated time 10 - 15 minutes (Based on my year 10 GCSE mixed ability class)
A-Level Computer Science - Exam Style Questions
Double sided worksheet with over 20 questions on the following topics:
CPU - Difference between Von Neumann & Harvard; Clock Speed,
Logic Gates; The purpose of a D Type Flip Flop,
Big Data; Data Mining,
Databases, Features, Key terms,
Programming, Functional, High-level, Assembly Language, Machine Code.
Stacks & Queues Data Structure Worksheet - Used for revision
Practice Pushing and Popping stacks and queues
Describing using key terms
Looking at their uses
A booklet containing explanations and exercises on binary number conversion, hexadecimal number conversion, ASCII and Unicode.
Activities include:
Converting numbers
Binary number pattern worms
Hex Grid Challenge
ASCII word challenge
Unicode Emoji Challenge
Binary number conversion task. Pupils colour in the numbers in the 5 times table. This will reveal a hidden number when the page is turned.
Great activity when introducing binary with a bit of maths too!
21 words with the letters jumbled up - some of them are computer science and some of them are Christmas related.
Answers included at the bottom to save you having to engage the brain as you approach the Christmas holiday!
PDF and PUB file included so the resource can be edited and used for mixed topics / subjects
Green letters can be used more than once
Blue letters can only be used once
Red letter must be included
Students need to think of key terms linked to the topic.
eg.
Topic: Hardware
Words: Keyboard, Memory etc...
A set of activities on powerpoint that the pupils can work through in those lessons just before Christmas:
Unscramble keywords,
Spot the Input Device
Spot the difference
Binary Baubles
Data Types
Acrostic Poem
Christmas task - convert numbers in to binary, find the colour associated with that binary number and colour in the blank pixel grid to reveal a Christmas related image.
Used as a re-cap starter activity (although it took the students longer than I expected) on the hardware topic. Clues given, students workout the keyword / phrase and then try to it on the grid.