Troubleshooters are ICT unit plans designed to build skills, confidence and understanding, providing a wide range of materials for teaching specific QCA units.

They provide watertight support for each of the three main strands:

• Control and datalogging 
• Spreadsheets 
• Databases...

Troubleshooters are ICT unit plans designed to build skills, confidence and understanding, providing a wide range of materials for teaching specific QCA units.

They provide watertight support for each of the three main strands:

• Control and datalogging
• Spreadsheets
• Databases....

This edition of the Computing at School newsletter focuses broadly on computing in primary schools, and contains articles covering:

*The new National Curriculum Programme of Study for Computing

*Designing a new computing curriculum in your school; adapting previous curriculum models

*Computing...

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...

This activity gives SEND pupils the opportunity to look for patterns, complete sequences, create their own patterns and develop their understanding of algorithms by making instructions for others follow. Pupils will be challenged to create step-by-step instructions to create simple algorithms and opportunities are...

This resource from the MIT team where Scratch originated consists of a teacher guide and student workbook.

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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.

A...

Cubetto is the friendly wooden robot which will teach children the basics of computer programming through adventure and hands-on play.

Donated by Primo Toys.

This text explores how teachers can harness the power of curiosity in their classroom. Curiosity has the potential to enhance learning in all curriculum subjects but it has a special...

This activity gives SEND pupils the opportunity to make up a dance routine and create a clear algorithm for a partner to follow. Pupils will learn to follow instructions, create a sequence of instructions for people to follow and to understand that the order of instructions is important. Dance move cards will...

Published by BEAM, this collection provides a selection of resources for teachers of primary mathematics. Included are a number of challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities, and resources to develop, practise and consolidate students' understanding of handling data...

'Troubleshooters are ICT unit plans' designed to build skills, confidence and understanding, providing a wide range of materials for teaching specific QCA units.

They provide watertight support for each of the three main strands:

• Control and datalogging
• Spreadsheets
• Databases...

'Troubleshooters are ICT unit plans' designed to build skills, confidence and understanding, providing a wide range of materials for teaching specific QCA units.

They provide watertight support for each of the three main strands:

• Control and datalogging
• Spreadsheets
• Databases...

'Troubleshooters are ICT unit plans' designed to build skills, confidence and understanding, providing a wide range of materials for teaching specific QCA units. 

They provide watertight support for each of the three...

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...