Distance Questions & Homework Year 7 & 8

Homework Year 7 & 8

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

Find out what each component is and state what it does.• Hard disk • CPU• Motherboard• RAM• Graphics Card• Power supply

• Find out which components in the computer have fans and why they are required Find out the role of a data bus within a computer.

• Write a report using Microsoft Word, check for spelling and grammar errors. Should ensure that research relates to computer science and do not go off-point. You must reference all resources used for your research. Make use of relevant images. Check for spelling and grammar errors.

• Provide examples

• You are more than welcome to create a video, song, website or any form of creative media when doing this task. Please check wit your teacher first though to make sure it is appropriate.

Autumn term 1: Homework

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

COMPUTER DEVELOPMENT 1) Find out what computers in the

future might be able to do i.e. in around 20-30 years’ time. Write a paragraph to explain your findings.

2) Design a Poster on computer development through the decades.

• Write a report using Microsoft Word, check for spelling and grammar errors. Should ensure that research relates to computer science and do not go off-point. You must reference all resources used for your research. Make use of relevant images. Check for spelling and grammar errors.

• You are more than welcome to create a video, song, website or any form of creative media when doing this task. Please check wit your teacher first though to make sure it is appropriate.

• Poster must include relevant images. Appropriate timelines shown in poster.

Autumn term 2: Homework

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

ResearchFind out what is likely to happen when transistors can no longer be made smaller – how will we increase computing power?

• Write a report using Microsoft Word, check for spelling and grammar errors. Should ensure that research relates to computer science and do not go off-point. You must reference all resources used for your research. Check for spelling and grammar errors.

• You are more than welcome to create a video, song, website or any form of creative media when doing this task. Please check wit your teacher first though to make sure it is appropriate.

Spring term 1: Homework

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

• Research how to make an interactive PowerPoint and create an interactive guide for the components that make up a computer as well as what they might be like in the future.

• Create a well structured interactive PowerPoint guide.

Spring term 2: Homework

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

ResearchFind out how tasks are scheduled in super computers and main frame computers

• Write a report using Microsoft Word, check for spelling and grammar errors. Should ensure that research relates to super computers and do not go off point. You must reference all resources used for your research. Make use of relevant images. Check for spelling and grammar errors.

• You are more than welcome to create a video, song, website or any form of creative media when doing this task. Please check wit your teacher first though to make sure it is appropriate.

Summer term 1: Homework

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

What are databases used for? Who might use a database? And what for?

• Complete the table below, an example has been done for you. Provide examples of who might use a database and what for.

Who Why?/ What for1. A newsagent • To keep details of their customers

and what is delivered to each address

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Summer term 2: Homework

Distance QuestionsYear 7 & 8

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

BINARY DATA: 1. What does the term ‘binary’ mean? 2. What is ‘binary data’? 3. Why does a computer only use

binary data?

• Use appropriate keywords, use relevant images, provide examples of binary data.

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

What is meant by open source software?

Find three examples of open source software.

• Type up/Handwrite detailed answers to questions. Provide examples as requested

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

What are the advantages of using a database?

• Type up/Handwrite 3 advantages of using a database

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

• What does the abbreviation HTML mean?

• What are tags? • What two characters surround a

tag?

• Type up/Handwrite detailed answers to question.

• Students aiming for a Grade 6 should also give examples for each question

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

• Explain the importance of HTML as a standard for the creation of web pages.

• Type up/Handwrite detailed answers to question. Look online as well and reference all resources used.

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

• Define the following keywords : • Hyperlinks • Hotspots • Slideshow• Transitions• Animations• Interactive

• Type up/Handwrite detailed answers to the question. Look online as well and reference all resources used.

Task: For your work to be successful you must:

• How would you create a hotspot/hyperlink in PowerPoint?

• How would you record or insert sound into PowerPoint?

• Create a short guide/tutorial on how this can be done using relevant screen shots