Category Archives: education

Binary revision activity

Posted on April 20, 2017 by blogmywiki

I love making teaching resources in Scratch – even better getting pupils to make them too! Here’s a quiz I am going to use even as high as Year 9 to help them revise the binary number system: (requires Flash) … Continue reading →

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Dice maths investigation using Scratch

Posted on February 11, 2017 by blogmywiki

This week I did a maths investigation I recall doing myself when I was at primary school – and that was a long time ago! It’s the one where you find out which total scores, if any, are more likely … Continue reading →

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Lightbulb moment: learning logic gates with switches

Posted on January 31, 2017 by blogmywiki

I introduced logic gates to year 9 again this year. Last year we did the theory, filled in truth tables and then I got them to built half and full adders in logic.ly – which was fine, they really got … Continue reading →

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The truth about cats AND/OR dogs

Posted on January 15, 2017 by blogmywiki

Here’s an activity I think you could do with almost any year group in KS2 or KS3. You could use it to teach about the origins of modern databases in Hollerith’s punch cards used to collect US census and immigration … Continue reading →

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Simple Microbit wireless data class activities

Posted on November 30, 2016 by blogmywiki

I’ve been very impressed with the radio module in microbit Python. As an extension to a year 8 microbit lesson I got two of my pupils to test out the awesome firefly project. There was a very magical look of … Continue reading →

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