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Introduction

Help learners develop essential computing skills with an approach that uses real-life examples, reinforces key vocabulary and provides opportunities to learn, practise and apply throughout.

- Encourage learners to become confident in working with information and ideas of their own and those of others with discussion tasks, as well as with What can you do? panels at the end of each unit for self-assessment.

- Provide a clear pathway through the learning objectives with Practise tasks in each unit, as well as Go further and Challenge yourself! panels with questions designed to support differentiation.

- Recap and activate learners' prior knowledge with Do you remember? activities and introduce new computing skills with Learn and Practise tasks.

Contents

How to use this book

Term 1

Unit 1 Scratch MIT: Be a designer

Unit 2 Be a data storyteller

Unit 3 Computer storage

Unit 4 Scratch MIT: Be a storyteller

Term 2

Unit 5 Network devices and websites

Unit 6 Scratch MIT: Be an animator

Unit 7 Be a data engineer

Unit 8 Micro:Bit Makecode: Be an innovator

Term 3

Unit 9 Cellular networks and data packets

Unit 10 Scratch MIT: Be a game developer

Unit 11 Artificial intelligence

Unit 12 iRobot Level 2: Be a problem solver

Glossary