Year 7 – Intro to Computers

Lesson Aim:

All pupils will: understand that transistors have replaced valves and that they can be found in all electronic devices today

Most pupils will: be able to identify at least two benefits of using transistors over valves.

They will also understand the principle of Moore’s Law

Some pupils will: be able to identify at least one specific role of a transistor within the CPU.

Introduction

Compare and Contrast

Moores Law 

Your Task

Transistors and Moores Law worksheet

Task 2

Correct the teacher task

Plenary

What I have learnt

Unit 20 – Testing an animation

Lesson Aim

  • Understand how to test an animation
  • Test your animation and carry out improvements

Your task

You will then need to test your animation,  you will need to identify areas for improvement (at least 2) and action most of them. This could be by adding music to your animation, changing frame rate to make your animation smoother or other appropriate changes. Provide screen shots of the changes you have made below your test plan.

Below is a test plan you can use to test your animation

Example Test Plan

Test Plan

Creating a Ringtone

Lesson Aim:

  • Create a suitable name and logo for your company
  • Create an attractive flyer

Your Task

You need to think of an appropriate name for your ringtone company.  You will then need to develop a logo for your company.  In the next few weeks you will create a ringtone, you need to think of a name for your ringtone and then produce an A5 flyer advertising your ringtone. 

 

Unit 20 – Review animations

Lesson Aim

Review different animations and suggest improvements necessary (this is a requirement AO1 for the new unit (unit 20) you wil start

Your task is to review two different animations using the review sheet below: (NB save your work to a new folder in your OCR folder called Unit 20)

Animation review sheet

Review one animation from the folder below:

Animations Folder 

Public –> ICT Faculty –>  Key Stage 4 –> OCR –> unit 20 – animations –> Example animations

You will also need to review an animation from the website below:

Web Animations

Unit 2 – AO6 Testing your Website

Lesson Aim:

  • Identify what to test in a website
  • Create a Test Plan for a website

Starter

Starter

Main Task

You will need to test your website as one of the requirements for Unit 2. This is assessed in AO6, use the test plan template and worksheet below to help you:

Testing Template

 

Extension

The final task for this unit is to evaluate your website use the worksheet below:

Website evaluation sheet

Year 8 Website

Lesson Aim

  • Create a web plan for a website
  • Understand what details need to be included in a web plan

Main task

Use the website design sheet below to help you create a website proposal for your chosen scenario.  You may create a website for one of the following scenarios:

  • Holiday destination (eg. Spain, Florida)
  • Sports team (eg Man Utd, Fulham)
  • Pop Group ( eg. One Direction)

Website Design sheet

Planning your website

Your Task

Create a design for your website design. You will need to create a web design for one of the following scenarios:

  • Place to visit (eg Ibiza, Eygpt, New York)
  • Pop Star/Group
  • Sports Team (eg Man Utd, Chelsea)

Your website needs the following on it:

  • 5 pages

  • Hyper links

  • Email link and a link to a external website

  • Hotspot

  • Roll over image and Gallery

  • Feedback page

Remember to use the example design to help you with your design.

Website design

Example website design

Alternative Links

Web Design

Example website design