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The national strategy for Key Stage 3 is mounted by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and supported by a national team. The aim of the strategy is to raise standards by strengthening teaching and learning, developing cross-curricular skills such as literacy and numeracy, helping pupils who come into...
This edition of the Computing at School (CAS) newsletter is focused on physical computing, and features:
*The BBC Micro-Bit and Make It Digital projects
*CPD tips with Barefoot and Quickstart
*Primary school activities with Scratch and Makey Makey
*Scratch projects with Microsoft Kinect...
Beginning with the basics and moving gradually to greater challenges, this book takes you step-by-step through experiments and projects that show you how to make your Arduino or Raspberry Pi create and control movement, light, and sound. In other words: action!
The Arduino is a simple microcontroller with an...
The BBC micro:bit is capable of taking on a variety of roles including that of a powerful IoT device. In order to gain full access...
This Challenge Pack, from the British Science Association, aims to give students aged 11-16 and their teachers and educators support to create a science, technology, engineering or maths (STEM) project that they can enter into the National Science + Engineering Competition.
Through creating a project, young...
A booklet containing lots of generic programming theory. The topics include:
- What is a program?
- High level languages and machine code
- Design methodologies ...
It's an exciting time to get involved with MicroPython, the re-implementation of Python 3 for microcontrollers and embedded systems. This practical guide delivers the...
Note - These lessons use the book 'Ready Player One' as a starting point, teachers will need to obtain a copy of the book before using the content, the school library may have a copy that could be used.
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This collection of resources supports computing and computer science in upper secondary schools. The resources offer in-depth learning opportunities covering programming with Python as well as other aspects of the curriculum.
The copyright for the collection is owned by Axlesoft Ltd and is available for use...
Resources which centre around a series of lessons that facilitate students producing a large Mind Map of ideas and facts about computing hardware. The Mind Map itself is created using a free online tool called MindMup.com, but any other suitable software or even just pencil and paper methods could also be used....
The Computing at School newsletter is published three times a year. It is full of practical ideas for teachers of computing in primary and secondary schools, with articles contributed by a number of CAS members. With input from teachers, academics, advisors and industry professionals, it provides a varied source of...
Can computers understand emotions? Can computers express emotions? Can they feel emotions? This video, from the University of Cambridge, examines the research of Professor Peter Robinson exploring how emotions can be used to improve interaction between humans and computers.
The research team is collaborating...
This resource for VEX IQ Modkit helps students to understand the basic principles of using blocks of code to create a programme. The Modkit blocks have been reproduced so that they can be printed and used by students for discussion and when planning their code. This resource contains a classroom presentation...