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I have used this unit of work during primary liaison and transition in the past. I would deliver the first lesson to the primary students in their school and then they would work on their presentations and they would finish it off on induction days or when they started in September. I then assessed it using the grid to gauge a baseline on ICT presentation skills. However, this resource could be used for cover work for a few lessons in Y7 or at primary level. There are two powerpoints included: the first one outlines the task and provides an example from Zorg the Alien. There is also an ideas worksheet that the students use during that lesson to identify content before they go anywhere near the computers. The second powerpoint then covers the printing and annotation of their presentations. There is an assessment grid that you can adapt for your own brand of KS3 assessment in the brave new world of life-after-levels!

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.

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 the benefits and limitations of networking and three network topologies: Ring, Bus and Star. During the lesson I get students to act out each topology using balloons/screwed up paper balls to represent the data. There are teacher notes that explain how this works for each topology. Students can complete the network worksheet.

This resource converts between binary, hex and denary. It can be used in a whole class situation on the whiteboard or given to students to use to check their answers to any conversion questions. Useful when teaching binary and hex.

Three pseudocode challenges for Computing students for the festive period! Now with possible solutions/answers.