Technologies · Year 10

Lesson 1

Trace bubble, insertion and merge sort by hand and count the comparisons each one needs to put a list in order.

⏱ 20 min · 9 questions

Lesson 2

Map how a product sits inside wider social, economic and environmental systems, and trace the feedback loops that create side effects.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 3

Describe how running time grows as the input gets bigger, and compare constant, linear and quadratic algorithms.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 4

Use futures thinking to evaluate whether an innovation would help build the future that communities around the world actually want.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 5

Store grids and tables as lists of lists, and use row and column indexes and nested loops to read and process them.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 6

Analyse how designers study the forms, processes and systems of living things and translate them into solutions to human problems.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 7

Predict exactly what programs do when they open, read, write and append to text and CSV files.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 8

Evaluate the fasteners, materials and layouts that make a product easy to repair, take apart and recycle.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 9

Use try and except to catch runtime errors, and predict exactly what a program prints when an exception occurs.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 10

Apply the seven principles of universal design so a product or space can be used by the widest possible range of people.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 11

Build a test plan with expected and actual results, use trace tables to find the actual values, and use the plan to validate an algorithm.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions

Lesson 12

Use anthropometric data, percentiles and allowances to size a product so it fits the people who will actually use it.

⏱ 20 min · 8 questions