What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In 'Code', they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other.

And through 'Code', we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate...

This presentation guides students through an explanation & coded simulation of Bubble Sort. Students can add to this later by adding another option for Merge Sort with the potential to then measure the time taken for each algorithm to form a...

Enrol in Coder Academy and undertake a series of imaginative and...

This activity will support pupils to design and programme a Maze Air Speed Record game using the coding package Scratch. Pupils will learn to programme sprites, scripts, costume and stage and the activity can be used to consolidate learning or to teach the Scratch programme for the first time. This activity is part...

Coding as a Playground...

Two worked example coding challenges that are useful for teachers as a teaching aid. These can be used to illustrate the relationship between a flow chart, pseudo-code and program code.

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This friendly and accessible introduction to coding for complete beginners teaches children the basics of Scratch, a free, online program developed by MIT which is widely used in primary schools. It allows them to get inside the code of their computer and create simple games and animations on screen.

An easy-to-grasp introduction to coding concepts for children 'Coding for kids for dummies' breaks coding into a series of small projects, each designed to teach elementary-to-middle-school-aged students a core...

This activity involves planning and block coding a whack ‘em all style game with a score and timer in Scratch, using selections and variables. The lesson focuses on exploratory learning, giving the pupils time to explore and work out for themselves how to create the code needed for their game. 

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This is one of a series of resources to support the use of the BBC micro:bit. This resource focusses on pupils designing, programming and using a BBC micro:bit to find other micro:bits in a class treasure hunt.

In this activity pupils will make use of the BBC micro:bit to design and create a programmable...

In this video from Osiris Educational Bill Rodgers discusses what effective colleague support can reasonably be given when dealing with behaviourally...