Year 9 Computer Science
Week beginning 20th July
This week's video seminar
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Learning intentions
Understand how characters are represented in a computer
Understand how images are represented in a computer
Understand how sound is represented in computers
Total study time this week: 2 hours
Office hours
If you have any questions or need support, please join our drop-in Q&A session on Google Meet at the time shown below.
Teacher: Mrs Smith
Office hours: Tuesday 11-12 (click to join)
You can also email Mrs Smith at any time.
1.2 - Representing Characters; Images and Sound
Watch the video seminar
Watch the how to submit your work video
Log onto your google classroom (you would have received an invite and been assigned the work and files)
Watch the videos
Answer the questions on the google classroom question sheet you have been assigned and submit when complete OR on this worksheet and email to Mrs Smith as an attachment.
How to submit your work
Watch the 2-minute video below which explains how to submit your work on Google Classroom. Don't worry about the bit where it mentions photographing your work - that' s just an example for different types of activities.
Tasks from previous weeks
This week's video seminar
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Learning intentions
Be able to add two binary numbers together
Understand how Binary Shifts work
Be able to Binary Shift left and right
Total study time this week: 2 hours
You can also email Mrs Smith at any time.
1.2 - Adding & Shifting Binary Numbers
Watch the video seminar
Watch the how to submit your work video
Log onto your google classroom (you would have received an invite and been assigned the work and files)
Watch the videos
Answer the questions on the google classroom question sheet you have been assigned and submit when complete OR on this worksheet and email to Mrs Smith as an attachment.
This week's video seminar
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Learning intentions
Define the units bit, nibble, byte, kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte.
Be able to estimate file sizes for different file types.
Total study time this week: 2 hours
You can also email Mrs Smith at any time.
1.2 - Units and Data Capacities
Watch the video seminar
Watch the how to submit your work video
Log onto your google classroom (you would have received an invite and been assigned the work and files)
Watch the videos
Answer the questions on the google classroom question sheet you have been assigned and submit when complete OR on this worksheet and email to Mrs Smith as an attachment.
This week's video seminar
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Learning intentions
Be able to convert Denary-Binary & vice versa
Be able to convert Hexadecimal - Binary - Denary
Investigate conversion to Octal
Total study time this week: 2 hours
You can also email Mrs Smith at any time.
1.2 - Data Representation - Binary - Hexadecimal - Denary
Watch the video seminar
Watch the how to submit your work video
Log onto your google classroom (you would have received an invite and been assigned the work and files)
Watch the videos
Answer the questions on the google classroom question sheet you have been assigned and submit when complete OR on this worksheet and email to Mrs Smith as an attachment.
This week's video seminar
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Learning intentions
Understand the need for Secondary Storage
Be able to describe the features of different storage types
Be able to identify suitable devices for different needs
Total study time this week: 2 hours
You can also email Mrs Smith at any time.
1.2 - Memory & Storage - Secondary Memory
Watch the video seminar
Watch the how to submit your work video
Log onto your google classroom (you would have received an invite and been assigned the work and files)
Watch the videos
Answer the questions on the google classroom question sheet you have been assigned and submit when complete OR on this worksheet and email to Mrs Smith as an attachment.
This week's video seminar
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Learning intentions
Be able to identify different types of memory
Describe features of ROM & RAM
Understand the need for and the process of Virtual Memory
Total study time this week: 2 hours
This week's video seminar
If the video won't play in full screen, click "Watch on Loom".
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Learning intentions
Be able to identify the meaning of common computer science acronyms.
Be able to describe what each acronym is for.
Total study time this week: 2 hours
Acronyms
Computer scientists like to refer to terms and items using acronyms.
acronym
noun
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA ).
Your task is to: -
Watch the video.
Complete this worksheet by
Writing the full title for the acronym
Describing what the acronym is (might be a piece of hardware, or software, or protocol, etc
1st June - video seminar
If the video won't play in full screen, click "Watch on Loom".
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Learning intentions
To understand the purpose of a computers CPU
To be able to describe the components of the CPU & the function of each
To know what an embedded system is and be able to name some.
Total study time this week: 2 hours
Office hours
If you have any questions or need support, please join our drop-in Q&A session on Google Meet at the time shown below.
Teacher: Mrs Smith
Office hours: Tuesday 11am - 12noon (click to join)
You can also email Mrs Smith at any time.
Systems Architecture
Watch the videos and answer the questions on this question sheet. You can put your answers on the sheet directly or you can copy the questions and your answer on paper and take a picture of each page.