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Welcome to a new area of the Barefoot website, designed to simplify the process of finding resources. Activities are organised by age phase, making it easier to search by the specific age group you teach. Within each age group, you will find activities grouped further by areas of the curriculum or theme. We hope that this organisation of activities helps streamline the search for relevant resources, enabling you to locate materials you need easily.
Handpicked resources to aid in the classroom
From decoding patterns to problem-solving with AI, these three dynamic unplugged activities are designed to encourage critical and computational thinking in young learners.
Program the micro:bit to act as a counting device, using variables to store data and investigate litter around school.
Five activity plans covering the collection of, analysis and evaluation of data with pizza as the theme.
Plan, film and edit a persuasive video about the climate crisis. combining video footage, text, images and audio.
Pupils act as digital devices in a human model of the internet and the WWW, passing data between each other.
These activities are based around Scratch, a visual block-based programming language, where programs are built up by dragging together command blocks.
Pupils collect data to investigate their school’s carbon emissions and program an animation in Scratch to share their findings.
Pupils predict, run and investigate the sample program. They modify the sample and make their own program.
Learn about selection by making a Maths quiz which allows the program flow to change depending on the player’s answers.
Learn to use variables in Scratch to make a scoring system for the quiz they made in the Maths Quiz Selection activity.
Design a game and create artwork for background and character. Write and debug code and present and evaluate games.
Learn why variables are needed, how they are created, how they store data and use it by a computer program as it runs.
Pupils program an animation of a Viking raid in Scratch, learning about the importance of sequencing commands.
Pupils create an animation of a poem using Scratch, focusing on decomposition.
Pupils are challenged to detect and correct (debug) the error in a number of water cycle programs in Scratch.
Create a Scratch simulation of Earth orbiting the Sun. Pupils abstract by deciding what the most important aspects are
Programming activities using the micro:bit, a pocket sized computer with a range of inputs and outputs.
Activities to support the processes of gathering, organising and analysing different kinds of data.
Pupils act out the traditional farmer, chicken, fox and corn problem, developing their logical reasoning skills.
Create simple models from modelling dough or draw quick sketches for a partner to guess what they are representing.
Pupils spot patterns in pairs of similar recipes to identify common steps that they can reuse in new recipes.
Explain rules for number sequences, extending knowledge of simple rule-based algorithms and using logical reasoning.
An unplugged activity in which pupils work in pairs using logical reasoning to solve puzzles.
Cross curricular activities based around a range of themes including current affairs and other relevant topics.
Pupils create digital illustrations of their favourite book characters using a digital drawing application.
Pupils are challenged to create websites to promote para sports and the athletes competing.
This unit of six lessons introduces pupils to how computers were used as code-cracking devices in World War II.
Short, fun activities designed to teach pupils problem-solving skills such as algorithms, decomposition and patterns
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Find out how our resources can be used to support the Teach Computing Curriculum.
This poster illustrates the steps in problem solving using a spreadsheet.
This poster breaks down the process of computational thinking into key concepts and approaches.
If you’re using our unplugged computational thinking activities but would like a little more guidance on how these skills are used in programming, then download this poster to learn more.
This poster links computer science elements to computational thinking concepts and approaches.
This guidance is for teachers of pupils with special educational needs who are working below National Curriculum levels, although it will have relevance to all teachers of SEND.
These posters give short definitions of the key concepts covered by the computer science elements of the computing programme of study.
Short definitions of the key concepts and approaches that make up computational thinking.
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