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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain that codes can be used for a number of different reasons and decode messages.
- Explain how to ensure a password is secure and how this works.
- Create a simple website with information about Bletchley Park including the need to build electronic thinking machines to solve cipher codes.
- Explain the importance of historical figures and their contribution towards computer science.
- Present information about their historical figure in an interesting and engaging manner.
Suggested prior learning
Computing systems and networks: Search engines
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Secret codes
Lesson 2: Brute force hacking
Lesson 3: Bletchley Park
Lesson 4: Computing heroes
Lesson 5: Computing heroes part 2
Key skills
- Learning about the history
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Key knowledge
- To understand the importance
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Key vocabulary
acrostic Code
brute force hacking
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Computing Y6: Bletchley Park
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Archived unit: Computing systems and…
Vocabulary display – Computing Y6: Bletchley Park
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Bletchley Park unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
History.
Mathematics: Number – number and place value.
RSE.
English: Writing – composition.
Suggested next steps
ARCHIVED Year 6: Creating media: History of computers
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