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Deliver an exciting computing course for ages 11-14, building on students’ existing computing skills and experience whilst demonstrating new concepts, with practice opportunities to ensure progression.
– Recap and activate students’ prior knowledge with ‘Do you remember?’ panels and introduce more advanced skills with ‘Challenge yourself!’ tasks.
– Allow students to demonstrate their knowledge creatively with engaging end of unit projects that apply skills and concepts in a range of different contexts.
– Develop computational thinking with an emphasis on broadening understanding throughout the activities.
– Provide clear guidance on e-safety with a strong focus throughout.

Contents
Introduction
1 Block it out: Moving from blocks to text
2 Decomposing problems: Creating a smart solution
3 Connections are made: Accessing the Internet
4 The power of data: Using data modelling
5 Living with AI: Digital data
6 Software development: Planning and prototyping
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Index

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This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.

Deliver an exciting computing course for ages 11-14, building on students’ existing computing skills and experience whilst demonstrating new concepts, with practice opportunities to ensure progression.
– Recap and activate students’ prior knowledge with ‘Do you remember?’ panels and introduce more advanced skills with ‘Challenge yourself!’ tasks.
– Allow students to demonstrate their knowledge creatively with engaging end of unit projects that apply skills and concepts in a range of different contexts.
– Develop computational thinking with an emphasis on broadening understanding throughout the activities.
– Provide clear guidance on e-safety with a strong focus throughout.

Contents
Introduction
1 TeenTech: Network structure and security
2 It’s all in the planning: Pseudocode and algorithms
3 Let’s talk technology: What’s going on inside
4 Testing conditions: Developing games
5 Click and collect: Data collection and validation
6 Iterating through a solution: software design and development
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This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.

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 Be a game developer
Unit 2 Be a data analyst
Unit 3 Computers and their functions
Term 2
Unit 4 Be an animator
Unit 5 Devices and networks
Unit 6 Be a designer
Unit 7 Be a data scientist
Term 3
Unit 8 Be an artist
Unit 9 Connected and sharing
Unit 10 Be a storyteller
Unit 11 Computers and robots

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