Resources by Digital Schoolhouse
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Beautiful Numbers
This lesson or enrichment activity investigates recursive algorithms using Fibonacci series.
It begins with an engaging maths magic trick ‘how to fake a super brain’ that uses a special property of Fibonacci numbers, and proceeds to look at the Golden Ratio in nature and its ‘beautiful’ properties.
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Crazy Graphics
This workshop investigates how images are stored as data, and shows the difference that ‘bit depth’ makes to the quality of images and number of colours. It begins by looking at paintings and how, using only paint, images were difficult to edit – however digital images are much easier. Pupils with access to photo...
Cryptography Workshop
This set of activities introduces children to cryptography techniques, showing how the use of computers can make encryption quicker and more effective. Some notable examples of the use of encryption in history are mentioned, leading to the use of calculation machines for code-making and code-breaking.
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Databases Unplugged
This series of activities is aimed at upper-primary school children and above, and is intended as an introduction to organising and storing data.
Kinaesthetic activities, paper-based and online tasks are used to support teaching of:
*Branching databases
*Fields and records
*Searching...
This collection of lesson activity and enrichment day resources links computing to other curriculum areas in creative ways. Unplugged as well as on-screen activities are provided, featuring contributions from various organisations. Some activities require additional paid resources whilst most make use of free...
Generating Art: Shape Calculator
This resource, intended for an extended workshop session, uses sequences of instructions for creating drawings as a basis for learning about algorithms. Following the activity (taken from the series CSUnplugged), an introductory look at Scratch explores the different parts of the program and would be suitable for...
Let's Doodle
This workshop or lesson activity makes use of a 3-D printing pen, and covers many computational thinking concepts as well as practical and evaluative skills applicable to design and technology.
The teacher guide includes a range of ‘unplugged’ computing activities – no programming is involved. The...
Networks and communications unplugged
A scheme of work which although aimed at the upper end of Key Stage 2, is also suitable for delivery at the bottom end of Key Stage 3. The scheme contains a whole host of unplugged and plugged activities surrounding networks and communications, including the difference between the internet and the world wide web,...
Storytelling
This series of three lesson activities uses Scratch to create animations that tell a story, and can link to studies in English.
A starter Scratch file partially tells the story of the Great Fire of London. Additional resources are provided allowing children to improve the animation.
Using some short...