A useful set of Computer Science related keywords that I have slowly updated over time.
Will keep maintaining these over time so if you spot any missing please add as feedback!
A lesson presentation and cheat sheet for your students to try out. Suitable for both the OCR and AQA specifications (examined in 2022). Works well with Craig n Dave and MrFraser resources.
A pretty good lesson powerpoint going over the CPU in a computer. Students are asked as a starter to think of what components go on a motherboard along with a few other questions.
Learning Objective: Describe and Understand the function of the CPU
Outcomes: State the purpose of the CPU and describe the function of it. Explain how common characteristics of CPUs affect their performance.
This is a lesson for creating a program which makes use of the tkinter function. This incorporates labels, buttons and menus too!
Feel free to expand on this but it should take a minimum of 1 hour (potentially more depending on your classes ability)
This lesson will help students demonstrate the key skills which they should have learnt already in Python (although a recap is provided). Students at the end of the lesson should have a fully working python game in a window, using tkinter and random, which should be playable.
This lesson is adaptable to meet all student needs. Please note that no worksheet has been provided for the final activity on Input 3.
This tick sheet has been generated for students taking AQA GCSE IT Short Course. This resource is teacher and student friendly and it has been adapted for the UNIT 2 Scheme of work. This can be easily adapted however this is for students who were entered in 2012