A set of printable cards, which are in sets of Denary, Binary, and Hex, and correspond to each other. This means that the cards can be used for a ‘matching’ type activity, where cards have to be put in the groups, and encourages students to convert between the alternating types. The cards are matched to be one per page, which means that cards can be printed in any way necessary, however these cards are designed to be printed out small, for example 9 per page. These cards can be used throughout school, but are suited to meet the National Curriculum KS3, GCSE Computing for example OCR and AQA, and even as a starter activity in 6th form for A Level Computing or IT courses.

A selection of three resources which can be used to help aid the teaching of the CISC vs RISC section of the OCR course. Included: 1.) A powerpoint from which a lesson can be planned, which includes: - What are CISC and RISC? - What are the differences between CISC and RISC? - The uses of RISC and CISC 2.) A quick 5 minute knowledge-check questions which can be used as a plenary activity to reinforce knowledge. These are simple questions such as "State one advantage, and one disadvantage for using a CISC processor". If the student does not know one of these areas, this hilights an area for further teaching. 3.) A PDF containing match-up cards. These can be used to develop understanding of the differences between CISC and RISC, for example - Using a matching-up exercise type activity in pairs or small groups - Cutting out or putting in a 'blind-bag', where students have to describe a processor characteristic before other members of the class guess. Disclaimer: These resources are made the best possible to match the OCR specification, but this is not guaranteed. They can also be adapted to other specs such as AQA.

This resource is a placemat in a word document format which can be laminated to make a mini-white-board, which can be used for practicing binary calculations. It contains a simple table with the binary table on. The resource can also be printed as 'note handout', which fits multiple tables to each page. This can be used as a space to answer binary questions in a logical format. This resource is appropriate for secondary education, for example KS3, and can be carried through to GCSE and A Level Computer Science/Computing. Some examples of specifications that this can be related to: OCR H046/H446 (7516 7517 AQA) OCR J276 GCSE / AQA 8520 KS3 National Curriculum Computer Science.

A quick homework tasks giving a short explanation about binary alongside 5 questions from Binary --> Denary/Decimal, and 5 questions Denary/Decimal --> Binary. Answers included Can be used with KS3, GCSE or A LEVEL. Answers included on a separate document.

A simple excel document containing a crossword, with answers, where students read the definitions and clues for an input device, and fill the crossword in with these clues. Ways that this resource can be used... Ask the students to complete the crossword as a starter activity (5-10 minutes). Then ask the students to hilight the input and the output devices in two different colours. Students can then discuss whether the hybrid devices, for example the touch screen, are an input or an output device. Alternatively, after completing a lesson on input and output devices, use this resource as a plenary activity. Who can use this resource? Although this resource is designed for KS3 teaching, it can easily be incorporated into computing or info-tech qualifications, for example OCR, AQA, EDEXCEL etc Info-Tech or Computing specifications at GCSE level.

A simple denary-binary and binary-denary task that can be given to students to allow them to develop understanding and reinforce methods by practicing calculations. Calculations are given in a variety of formats, for example a match-up exercise and a construction grid where 1s correspond to black and 0s correspond to white. This is a fun exercise where students have to translate from denary to binary, to reveal an image, and the last question involves a grid where students can construct their own images and share during the next lesson, getting each other to form these. This is suitable for a GCSE level, however, can be used to challenge G/T students in KS3 and used as a introduction to test understanding at a more advanced AS Level. The answers to this homework task are included in a separate word document.

A simple denary-hexadecimal and hexadecimal-denary task that can be given to students to allow them to develop understanding and reinforce methods by practicing calculations. Calculations are given in a variety of formats, for example a match-up exercise and constructing words out of hexadecimal letters which are converted from their denary equivalent. This is suitable for a GCSE level, however, can be used to challenge G/T students in KS3 and used as a introduction to test understanding at a more advanced AS Level. The answers to this homework task are included in a separate word document.