Download any of these free Computer Science resources to use in your lessons and classrooms.
I'm continually updating and adding new resources so keep checking for new materials and ideas.
Computer Science Games
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Useful Web Pages
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Logic.ly is a useful website for teaching logic gates and logic circuits. The demo page allows you to create simple and complex logic circuits and truth tables using light switches and light bulbs. |
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Draw.io is a useful website for creating flow charts. Your completed flow charts can be saved to your computer or saved to the cloud. |
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Code.org has a number of fun and engaging Minecraft coding activities | ||
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Getting Connected
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Using Google Drive is a great way to allow your learners to save resources and mini web pages for revision. creating a Google Drive account is free and your learners can use their school email address. All they need to so is click on the Google Drive icon on any of the mini web pages to save a PDF version to their Drive account. | ||
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Bloom’s Taxonomy is a classification of the different objectives and skills that educators set for their students (learning objectives). The taxonomy was proposed in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago. Each of our computer science lessons is built around using Bloom's Action Verbs to provide appropriate support and scaffolding for the least able along with stretch and challenge for the most able. You can read more about how we use Bloom's Action Verbs here. | ||
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Interactive Learning is an extremely successful teaching strategy in which small teams of learners work together towards a learning goal. Each member of a team is responsible not only for learning what is taught but also for helping teammates learn, helping create an atmosphere of achievement. You can read more about how we include different Interactive Learning Opportunities in our computer science resource here. | ||
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Raspberry Pis' are an affordable tool to help teach the basic principles of computer science, from setting up and installing a computer system to basic coding and media streaming. These useful Raspberry Pi commands will help your learners to understand how to use the command prompt interface to perform different tasks. | ||
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Download the latest version of Python IDLE. | ||
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The Computing at School Barefoot Computing site contans resources to help build your confidence in teaching computer science, in school CPD and free resources to download. | ||
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Safeguarding
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Posters and Displays
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| Computer Motherboard | Mac and IP Addresses | Validating a Credit Card Number | Computer Keyboard |
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| Key Stage 3 Levels - Key Words | Periodic Table of Texting | Pseudocode Syntax | Inside Your Phone |
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| Six Thinking Hats | Get Help | Keep Your Password Safe | Computer Science Timeline |
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| Computer Science Quotes | Pac Man Display | Hello World | Anatomy of a Raspberry Pi |
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| Anatomy of a Micro:Bit | Flowcharts | A to Z | The CPU |
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| Constants and Variables | Operators | Python Functions | Key Terms & Definitions |
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Computer Science Fact Files
Grace Hopper |
Freddie Williams |
Robert Dennard |
Margret Hamilton |
Tom Kilburn |
Ada Lovelace |
Charles Babbage |
Henry Prevost Babbage |
Alan Turning |
Dr An Wang |
Gordon Moore |
John von Neumann |
Robert Noyce |
Sir Tim Burners Lee |
Barbra Liscov |
Bonnie Ross |
Carol Shaw |
Catrina Fake |
Dana Ulery |
Donna Dubinsky |
Evlin Berezin |
Ginny Straizar |
Jeri Ellsworth |
Joyce Reynolds |
Radia Rerlman |
Sheryl Sandberg |
Sophie Wilson |
Black History Month
Every October the UK holds Black History Month to celebrate the achievements and positive contributions of countless black people over the centuries. Computer science is often portrayed as a white, male middle-class subject, but there are a number of pioneering back computer scientists. These are based on the profiles from cs4fn.
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| Anne-Marie Imafidon | Evelyn Boyd Granville | Gladys West |
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| Jeremiah Onalapo | Lisa Gelobter | Mark Dean |
Software
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| Microsoft Word | Microsoft PowerPoint | Microsoft Publisher | Microsoft Excel |
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Starters and Plenaries
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| Pyramid of Learning | Give Me 5! | Tweet Me | Text Me | New Words |
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| 1 - 2 - 3 | 4 - 4 - 2 | Pyramids | Emoji Exit Ticket | Block Busters |
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| Give Me 10 | Mastermind | Pass The Buck | Post It Online | |
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Student Resources
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Understanding Algorithms Resource booklet introducing algorithms for Key Stage 3 and GCSE Computer Science | Pseudocode Syntax For AQA Computer Science |
Pseudocode Syntax For OCR Computer Science |
Pseudocode Syntax For Edexcel Computer Science |
Revision Ideas
Read our 52 Revision Ideas article to help you plan engaging computer science revision sessions for your learners.
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Revise IT Free revision mat that can be used for any topic |
Diamond 9 Free revision activity that can be used for any topic |
Dice A fun game that can be edited for any computer science revision topic |
Hexagons Hexagons is a different method of creating mind maps for any computer science revision topic |
Fill Your Brain An alternative revision tool for brainstorming different computer science revision topic ideas |
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Linked Phrases An editable computer science revision idea to help your learners embed the use of key terms |
Swag Bag Steal ideas from your classmates with this revision Give One Get One Idea |
Fortune Teller Use this template to create a computer science revision fortune teller |
Fidget Spinner Revision An editable revision template to use with Computer Science |
Binary Bonanza Play the Binary Bonanza game |
Last modified: Monday, 27 September 2021, 9:30 AM