Sonic Pi – Introduction Lesson 1

Lesson Aim

  • Pupils understand sound can be represented as numbers in a computer
  • Learn to create music clips in Sonic Pi

Starter

Demonstration of the Sonic Pi software and how it plays sounds based on numbers.

Main

Pupils to work through the introductory tutorials to Sonic Pi.

Tutorial 1

Tutorial 2

Plenary

Listen to music clips created on Sonic Pi to show the possibilities of creating complex music with the software

GCSE Computing – Databases Practice

Lesson Aim

  • Create filters in a MS Access Database
  • Create Queries in a MS Access Database

Starter

Introduce the task and demonstrate how to create filters and queries in MS Access

Main Task

Download the task sheet and database below and create filters and queries to carry out the tasks on the worksheet

Top track times

Top track times worksheet

Plenary

Click link below and create a tweet of what you have learnt in todays lesson

Lesson review link

Raspberry Pi

Lesson Aim

  • Know what a raspberry pi
  • Identify some uses of the raspberry pi

Starter

Introduce the Raspberry Pi and discuss some of its uses

Main

Your task is to create a presentation about the Raspberry Pi and include the following information:

  • Title Slide
  • What is Raspberry Pi?
  • Why it was created?
  • Some projects carried out with the Pi
  • What you would like to create with a Pi

Plenary

Discuss uses of a Pi and then what students would like to do with it.