Subject: Computer Science

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Lesson 1: Zoo data

Introducing the term 'data' through an animal-themed activity that involves identifying the number of animals at a zoo and developing visual ways to represent the numbers.

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Lesson 1: Meet Nina and Luca

Recognising the different ways Nina and Luca can use computers, including to keep in touch.

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Lesson 1: Loose parts play

Children sort and categorise objects

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Lesson 2: Connecting devices

Recognsing that some computing devices can work together.

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Unit 1: How computers work

Exploring hardware, software, and input and output devices; finding out how computers are used in the world; comparing real and fictional robots.

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Unit outcomes

Learners who are secure will be able to:

  • Identify hardware and software.
  • Recognise the difference between input and output devices.
  • Identify features that make digital devices easy to use.
  • Choose the most appropriate device for different locations and purposes.
  • Identify tasks that computers can do better than humans.
  • Recognise the difference between real and fictional robots.

Suggested prior learning

Unit 6: Integrated project: Rocket to the Moon

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Lessons

Lesson 1: Hardware and software

  • To identify computer parts and explain what they do.
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Lesson 2: Input and output devices

  • To recognise input and output devices and their features.
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Lesson 3: Different computing devices

  • To explain why one computing device is better for an activity or place than other devices.
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Lesson 4: Jobs computers do well

  • To identify tasks that computers can do better than people.
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Lesson 5: Real and fictional robots

  • To recognise the difference between real robots and fictional robots.
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Key skills

Prior learning

  • Computers can be
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Key knowledge

Cambridge Primary Computing (0059)

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Key vocabulary

data

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Vocabulary display – Computing S2: How computers work

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Knowledge organiser – Computing S2: How computers work

Aimed at learners, a single page document that gives key facts and definitions from the How computers work unit.

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