Ms Wordsworth's Year 8 Computer Science: April 2018

Friday 27 April 2018

Networks - Lesson 2

In this lesson, you will learn about WANs and how they differ from LANs.

Objectives and Outcomes

be able to explain what a WAN is (band 4)
be able to apply this understanding to creating a slideshow explaining how they work (band 5)
be able to link this knowledge to real life by giving specific examples of how a WAN works (band 6)

Here is the link to my slideshow about WANs........

Bronze - create a slideshow with images that explains what a LAN and a WAN is and the differences.

Silver - create a slideshow with images that explains what a LAN and a WAN is and the differences, plus an explanation of how data is transmitted.

Gold - As for silver but include animations and link the band 6 work, giving specific real-life examples of how a WAN works.

Tuesday 24 April 2018

HTML Test

Here is the link to the HTML test.

Make sure you read the questions carefully and answer all of them.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftIH2X5jVHi3LCTN33BMhE4Kht2K2XNeDkZIcMYXlHghFUPA/viewform?usp=sf_link

Friday 20 April 2018

HTML Tags Revision

Here are the tags we used in the HTML unit and you need to remember!

To start and end the program <html> </html>

To create a labelled ‘internet’ tab at the top of the page

<head>

</head>

To make a main heading on the page <h1> </h1>

To make a sub-heading on the page <h2> </h2>

To make a new paragraph <p> </p>

To make a line break <br> There is no closing tag for this one

To change the font style <font face =”name of font”> </font>

To change the size of font <font size = “size of font”> </font>

To change the colour of font < font color=”colour name or hexadecimal code”> </font>

To align the font on the page (ie left, centre or right) <font align = “position”> </font> Remember to spell it ‘center’ - American style!

To add an image <img src=”image address”> </img src>

To add a hyperlink to aother page <a href = “name of page”> </a>

To embolden the font <b> </b>

To turn the font italic <i> </i>

To underline the font <u> </u>

Thursday 5 April 2018

Networks - Lesson 1

This lesson you will be learning about how computers can be networked together and the advantages and disadvantages of doing so.

Objectives and Outcomes

Be able to describe what a computer network is (band 3)
Be able to explain how computers can be linked together (band 4)
Be able to apply your knowledge stating the advantages and disadvantages of networking computers (band 5)

Here is a link to my slideshow which provides information, the tasks for the lesson and states the evidence I need to see for this lesson.

Slideshow for Networks Lesson 1