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    • Year 7
      • Introduction
      • E-Safety II
      • Programming (Logo)
      • Hardware
        • CPU Questions ()
        • Fetch Execute Questions
      • The Information Age
      • Construct3
      • Web design project
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    • Minecraft
  • Year 7
  • Hardware

Hardware

Lesson 1 - Computer components

  • Lesson PowerPoint
  • Student workbook
  • Video saving your workbook
  • How to build a computer
  1. CPU, Memory and I/O

  2. What is a computer?

  3. Hardware and software

RAM

Lesson 2 - The Central Processing Unit

  • Lesson PowerPoint
  • Inside your computer
  • Von Neumann architecture
  • CCCS #7 The CPU and Clock Speed
  • CPUs explained

Lesson 3 - Secondary storage

  • Lesson PowerPoint
  • More on Secondary Storage


  1. Binary and data

  2. How Hard Drives work

  3. Computer memory

  1. SSD vs HDD

  2. Optical Discs

  3. Memory and storage

Lesson 4 - Logic gates

  • Lesson PowerPoint
  • Online Logic Gate maker
  • NOT gates
  • AND gates
  • OR gates
  • AND OR NOT Gates simple video
  • Logic.ly video showing an AND gate
  • Video on NAND Gate
  • Two Logic gates for an alarm video
  • X OR Gate

Lesson 5 - Computer Hardware timeline project

  • Part 01 - Introduction
  • Part 02 - History of Computing continued
  • Gordon Moore
  • More on Moore's law
  • Timeline creator

Links to more info.

https://computerhistory.org/

https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/

https://www.britannica.com/technology/computer/History-of-computing

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/history-of-the-computer-for-kids

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zbhgjxs/articles/ztrq7ty

Below is the beginning of a timeline I have started myself - to show you one way of doing it. - I have only done two slides for 1940s and 50/60s but it should give you an idea. 

  • computer history.pptx
  • Last updated by Karen Alexander
  • Last updated 21/03/2022
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