Fun Christmas activity that gets students to think about words related to Computer Science - They have to use the letters in the Christmas phrase to make words.
Points scored depending on the number of letters - Can be turned in to a competition.
Grids to be displayed on a whiteboard with 9 questions. Topics covered:
Representing Data
Databases
Networks & Internet
Programming
Can be used as a quiz or individual grids used as a starter to a lesson.
I have used as a revision quiz and have included the answer grid PDF. I gave the students 30 seconds on each grid. Easy to adapt for future topics.
3 Starter Activities for KS3 / GCSE / A -Level computer science.
Work out the answer to the clues to fill the spiral. Use the letters in the circles and unscramble to reveal a hidden key term.
A double sided worksheet with 5 programming challenges (paper based).
Pupils need to work out how to move the spaceship with instructions to find Bobs friends.
Task 4 & 5 introduce the use of a REPEAT command to loop instructions.
I have used a coin in class so the pupils can track movement.
This is the second word spiral task I have created. Students use the clues to find keywords. They write these words in to the spiral. They then use the letters circuled in red to reveal a hidden word.
Great Computer Science Starter activity
Fun activities worksheet (double sided) on the topic of representing data.
Binary Challenges
Spelling of keywords
Ordering
Dingbats
Boggle style
Can be used as a starter activity or part of a lesson.
A fun worksheet that gets students converting numbers from hexadecimal to denary.
Students shade in the numbers that once converted feature in the 7 times table.
Computer Science - Input and Output Devices - Starter Task
Pupils need to fill in the gaps by naming input and output devices that fit!
Simple fun starter task
Worksheet revision poster for logic gates.
Focus on the NOT OR and AND gates for the OCR Computing GCSE
Basic revision on one side, past exam questions on the reverse.
A double sided revision poster (Designed to be printed on A3 but is fine in A4)
Covers a range of topic areas for the OCR F451 GCSE Computing exam.
6 mark questions, Description, Activities that get students thinking about key terms from certain topic areas.
A Christmas related Computer Science task.
Convert the binary numbers and look up the colour on the grid at the bottom of the page.
PDF and Publisher file included so you can edit the colours (I like a messy tree)
A double sided A3 (But works well in A4) revision worksheet covering a large range of key areas from the OCR A Level Computer Science section 1.2 - Software and software development.
An introduction to using the turtle in python.
1) Some examples of how to create shapes
2) Challenges - try and create the following shapes
3) Further challenges to also implement selection (if) statements to offer different outputs depending on user inputs.
Each section has a tick box that students can check off once the task is completed.