Tis the season, so why not inject some Christmas fun into Computer Science?
We’ve built up a sleigh full of resources that you can plug right into your lessons covering a number of different topics that will put some seasonal cheer into your lessons.
Browse our free Christmas themed resources below and see if any of them ring your sleigh bells (sorry).
Christmas Sabotage!
A rogue faction of Elves, a strange note slid under Santa’s door and the fate of Christmas resting on your shoulders, what will happen in this evolving Christmas mystery story!
Use your computer science skills to solve the weekly puzzles and save Christmas from sabotage.
Christmas Calculations
Studying binary or hexadecimal conversions? Help Santa figure out how many parts he needs to order to make the toys.
Convert 4 bit binary to denary numbers
Convert 8 bit binary to denary numbers – 10 questions
Convert bit binary to denary numbers – another 10 questions
Convert 2 digit hexadecimal to denary – 10 questions
Convert 2 digit hexadecimal to denary – another 10 questions
Christmas coding challenges
Have a go at programming Santa’s naughty and nice list checker.
You’ll use lists, variables and inputs to create a program for Santa that checks names on a naughty list. On the challenge part you will be saving this list to a file.
Christmas pixel drawing with co-ordinates
A multi-use task that can be used to explain and reinforce colour depth, bitmap images, co-ordinates in maths, grid references in geography or arrays in computer science.
Students use the given co-ordinates to create a pixel drawing of a Christmas tree
