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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
If your school does not have access to Google, there is also a Microsoft version of this unit.
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
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Vocabulary display – Computing Y6: Bletchley Park
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Bletchley Park unit.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
History – study an aspect or theme in British history.
Maths – solve number and practical problems. Read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10 000 000.
RSE – know the rules and principles for keeping safe online and how to report them. How to critically consider online friendships and an awareness of the risks associated with strangers online.
English: Writing – Composition. Identifying the audience and purpose. Noting and developing initial ideas. Using further organisational and presentational devices to structure text.
Suggested next steps
Archived unit: Creating media: History of computers
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