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Support for Teachers and Home Educators

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Many teachers use cs4fn to support their teaching and just as a way to keep up to date with the subject. We've put this area together to provide further support materials, such as write-ups of the activities we do when we go into schools to enthuse students, links to our competitions pages, competitions and news of events that support teachers we hear about.

We would love to get feedback about this area, about how you use cs4fn and about what you would like more of.

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Members of the Queen Mary cs4fn team can visit schools in the UK to give talks to inspire your students about computer science.

cs4fn resources

Invite us to give a talk to inspire your students cs4fn classroom activities for you to try Articles that link to topics on school computing syllabuses Download pdfs or order class sets of the cs4fn magazine Download pdfs or order class sets of Audio! magazine Download the pdf of our booklet on Computer Science Magic tricks Fundamentals: a cs4fn way for students to get an idea of what core computer science topics (like programming, algorithms and human-computer interaction) are about Paul Curzon's "Computing without Computers" booklet download - real world equivalents and other metaphors for teaching programming, datastructure and algorithms concepts

Other classroom resources on Computing, Science and Engineering

Science, Engineering and Maths Sites we like Control-Alt-Hack(TM) A card game based on Ninja Burger that teaches about computer security threats. Apps for Good: an award-winning course where students learn to create mobile apps that solve social issues they care about Videos by Leeds University: "Maths Matters in Computing" More Maths Grads is a project to increase the number of maths students in England and Wales. They have a YouTube channel where you can find videos geared to both teachers and students. In particular, have a look at their series on maths in the movies.