Gwersi Llenwi
Syniadau ar gyfer gwersi llenwi sy'n cysylltu â'r FCD, ar gyfer amrywiaeth o bynciau, all-lein a digidol.
Planning an On-screen History Enquiry
DCF: Producing → Sourcing, searching and planning digital content
Pupils work through the five enquiry stages of an on-screen historical enquiry using printed practice screens on the Great Strike of Penrhyn, 1900 to 1903: a hypothesis and a 3-hour time plan, a provenance grid for two sources and two interpretations, a paragraph plan with item codes and on-screen working habits, one developed paragraph, and a critical reflection. Practises the method of GCSE History Unit 2: An in-depth study on European and/or World history, which is completed on WJEC's e-assessment platform. Penrhyn is not a Unit 2 option and three of the four items are clearly marked as invented, so this is practice only, not NEA work.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Pupil worksheet: Planning an On-screen History Enquiry
- Stimulus: The Great Strike of Penrhyn, practice enquiry screens (question, narrative, timeline and four items)
- Worked example: hypothesis, time plan, item grid, paragraph plan, model paragraph and reflection
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Checking a Climate Claim with Carbon Footprints
DCF: Producing → Sourcing, searching and planning digital content
For GCSE Integrated Science (Single Award), Unit 2: Science in a Changing World, 2.1.2 Carbon in our climate: pupils trace a viral claim that one cow harms the climate more than a car back to the farm data behind it. They calculate carbon footprints in kgCO2eq using Global Warming Potential, score seven sources for reliability, plan searches with quotation marks, site: and a minus sign, reference a source in full and write a referenced verdict on whether the claim is over-simplified.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Pupil worksheet: Checking a Climate Claim with Carbon Footprints
- Worked example: calculations, reliability grid, searches, references and verdict
- Stimulus: The cow and the car, a source folder on one climate claim
- Calculator and highlighter for each pupil
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Calculator
- Highlighters
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Spreadsheet Break-Even Model
DCF: Data and computational thinking → Problem-solving and modelling
Pupils design a break-even spreadsheet for an Aberystwyth coffee cart: they write the formulas with absolute references, calculate the model table by hand, draw the break-even graph and debug a cousin's broken version. They then test what-if scenarios, a stepped cost written with IF and a twelve-month forecast, and explain the model's limits. Works on paper or in Excel or Google Sheets.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Supply teacher presentation: Spreadsheet Break-Even Model (board slides, timers and script)
- Pupil worksheet: Spreadsheet Break-Even Model
- Worked example and answer key: formulas, graph, debugging and what-ifs
- Stimulus: Coffi'r Prom business brief and Rhys's broken spreadsheet (one between two)
- Stimulus: Coffi'r Prom monthly sales forecast (CSV, optional computer route)
- Calculators and rulers
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Calculator
- Ruler
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
- Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets (optional computer route)
- Microsoft — ROUNDUP function
- Microsoft — Switch between relative, absolute and mixed references
- Microsoft — Use Goal Seek to find the input that gives the result you want
Comparing Broadband Speeds with Box Plots
DCF: Data and computational thinking → Data and information literacy
GCSE Mathematics and Numeracy Unit 3: Calculator-allowed, Higher tier statistics: cumulative frequency tables and diagrams (4.2.18), box-and-whisker diagrams to compare distributions (4.2.19), and testing a hypothesis while taking account of the limitations of the data (4.1.2, 4.1.4, 4.2.23). Pupils use an invented community council survey of download speeds in two Welsh villages to build a cumulative frequency table and curve, estimate the median, quartiles and interquartile range, and draw a box plot beside the one given for the other village. They compare the villages with one average and one spread, test the councillor's hypothesis and a resident's claim against Ofcom's superfast and Universal Service Obligation speeds, judge the reliability of a self-selected, one-evening, mixed Wi-Fi and cable sample, and modify the conclusion when cable-only medians halve the gap.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Pupil worksheet: Comparing Broadband Speeds with Box Plots
- Stimulus: Bryn Eira and Cwm Derwen broadband survey (background facts, method, grouped results and test types)
- Stimulus: raw speed test results for 160 homes (CSV)
- Worked example and answer key: cumulative frequency curve, box plots, model conclusion and reliability table
- Calculators and rulers, one per pupil
- Sharp pencils, for plotting the curve and drawing the box plot
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Calculator
- Ruler
- Computer/Laptop (optional)
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Mathematical Modelling of Epidemics
DCF: Data and computational thinking → Problem-solving and modelling
Pupils turn a written description of an outbreak into the SIR recurrence relations and run them for 30 days in a spreadsheet, or 14 days on paper. They locate the peak, test the model by checking that S plus I plus R stays equal to the population, halve the transmission rate, and evaluate the model's assumptions.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Supply teacher presentation: Mathematical Modelling of Epidemics (board slides, timers and script)
- Pupil worksheet: Mathematical Modelling of Epidemics
- Scientific calculators, one per pupil (needed for the paper version of the table)
- Squared or graph paper for sketching the three curves
Offer angenrheidiol
- Computer/Laptop
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Screen Time and Well-being in French
DCF: Citizenship → Health and well-being
Pupils read a French article on teenage screen time and sleep, answer detailed comprehension questions, and test its claims by calculating percentages from an invented survey of 120 lycée pupils. They explain why the survey shows a link but not a cause, translate a paragraph into English, and write a 150-word French article on whether screens help or harm well-being.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Supply teacher presentation: Screen Time and Well-being in French (board slides, timers and script)
- Pupil worksheet: Screen Time and Well-being in French
- Stimulus: French article and survey tables on screen time and well-being
- Stimulus: screen time survey data (CSV)
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Calculator
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Checking a Software Lead Sheet
DCF: Producing → Evaluating and improving digital content
GCSE Music Unit 3: Appraising, content 1.3.4: how music is notated and captured. An invented composer recorded a Welsh jig into a DAW and let notation software turn it into a lead sheet. Pupils check the software's output against the MIDI data (note numbers, timings, velocities and a chord track) and the composer's notes, and find five errors: 3/4 instead of 6/8, the anacrusis counted as bar 1, a quantise error, a note spelt D flat instead of C sharp, and A instead of A7. They answer exam-style questions on the corrected tune (compound duple time, roman numerals, cadences, intervals), rewrite two bars, and justify their changes to the composer with the settings to use next time.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Pupil worksheet: Checking a Software Lead Sheet
- Stimulus: Dawns Cwm Cynon lead sheet, composer's notes and MIDI data
- Stimulus: Dawns Cwm Cynon MIDI data (CSV)
- Worked example and answer key: the five errors, corrected lead sheet, exam answers and note to the composer
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Computer/Laptop (optional)
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Planning a Film Score Cue Sheet
DCF: Producing → Sourcing, searching and planning digital content
Working from the scene list of an invented short film set at Rhossili, pupils complete a cue sheet with frame-accurate durations and usage codes, then calculate which tempos and metres land the hit points on downbeats. They compare licensing a record, a production music library and a pastiche for the on-screen radio song, plan the library search, and write a composer's brief for the tension cue.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Supply teacher presentation: Planning a Film Score Cue Sheet (board slides, timers and script)
- Pupil worksheet: Planning a Film Score Cue Sheet
- Stimulus: Y Llanw scene list and music notes
- Stimulus data: Y Llanw scene timings (CSV)
- Calculators (one per pair)
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Calculator
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Researching Evidence-Based Training
DCF: Producing → Sourcing, searching and planning digital content
Pupils help an invented Year 11 sprinter decide whether to stretch before races: they sharpen his vague search into a focused research question, build search strings with quotation marks, OR, minus and site:, and judge eight printed search results from an advert to a systematic review. They place the sources on an evidence ladder, catch a newspaper headline overstating a study, and write a research plan, a reference and a warm-up recommendation with a source letter after every claim.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Supply teacher presentation: Researching Evidence-Based Training (board slides, timers and script)
- Pupil worksheet: Researching Evidence-Based Training
- Stimulus: eight invented search results on stretching and sprinting
- Worked example and answer key: search strings, source judgements, evidence ladder and recommendation
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Calculator
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Video Evidence for Performance Analysis
DCF: Interacting and collaborating → Storing and sharing
GCSE Physical Education and Health Unit 2, section 2.1.5 Analysis and evaluation, and the rule that off-site performances need audio-visual evidence. From a printed clip log of an invented Year 11 kayaker's two slalom runs, pupils analyse environmental, personal and situational factors and write a timed analysis paragraph. They choose which clips count as evidence, work out file sizes and frame counts to pick a format that plays and fits (HEVC or H.264, 4K or 1080p, 60 or 30 fps, PDF or Word), name and store the files, and reply to a club that wants to post the video publicly. Practice only, not NEA work.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Pupil worksheet: Video Evidence for Performance Analysis
- Stimulus: Cerys's slalom race, the video evidence dossier (clip log, checklist and file sizes)
- Worked example and answer key: analysis grid and paragraph, clip choices, file calculations and the reply to the club
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Calculator
- Highlighters
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Online Identity and Employment
DCF: Citizenship → Identity, image and reputation
Pupils act as the manager filling one Saturday job, scoring three invented applicants' public profiles against what an employer may lawfully consider under the Equality Act 2010. They then write a five-step plan for their own digital footprint. Nobody searches for a real person at any point.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Supply teacher presentation: Online Identity and Employment (board slides, timers and script)
- Pupil worksheet: Online Identity and Employment
- Stimulus: the vacancy and three invented applicant profiles
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Citing Sources in Human Rights Research
DCF: Citizenship → Digital rights, licensing and ownership
GCSE Religious Studies Unit 4, section 4.2.1: researching how charities work for a human rights issue and how that work aligns with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pupils find six honesty problems in an invented pupil's draft on the right to education, from copied charity text and patchwriting to a chatbot's unchecked statistic and a misattributed Bible verse. They write Harvard references for five sources, decide which words, photos and slogans can be reused under copyright, a Creative Commons licence or fair dealing, and rewrite the paragraph in their own words with citations, a Muslim teaching, a humanist view and a judgement. Practice with invented charities, not NEA work.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Pupil worksheet: Citing Sources in Human Rights Research
- Stimulus: the right to education research pack (six sources and a first draft)
- Worked example and answer key: the six problems, a Harvard reference list, reuse decisions and a model rewrite
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Highlighters
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Digital Ethics Debate
DCF: Citizenship → Online behaviour and online bullying
Pupils are assigned a side of the motion that anonymous accounts should not be allowed on social media, build a case using one ethical approach and one religious or humanist teaching, and deliver a two-minute speech. The assessed piece is the closing reflection, where they state what they actually think.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Supply teacher presentation: Digital Ethics Debate (board slides, timers and script)
- Pupil worksheet: Digital Ethics Debate
- Stimulus: three viewpoints on anonymous accounts, plus an ethics toolkit
Offer angenrheidiol
- Computer/Laptop
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
Modelling Radioactive Half-Life
DCF: Data and computational thinking → Problem-solving and modelling
Pupils run their own 20-nucleus decay simulation from a printed random-digit table, build the matching mathematical model, and plot a 600-dice simulation against 600 × (5/6)^n to read off a constant half-life. They apply the model to iodine-131, technetium-99m and the caesium-137 from Chernobyl that led to controls on north Wales sheep farms until 2012, and evaluate where the model stops explaining reality.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Supply teacher presentation: Modelling Radioactive Half-Life (board slides, timers and script)
- Pupil worksheet: Modelling Radioactive Half-Life
- Stimulus dataset: 600-dice decay simulation results (CSV)
- Scientific calculator for each pupil
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Scientific calculator
- Ruler
Meddalwedd / dolenni gwe
- PhET - Radioactive Dating Game simulation, half-life
- Welsh Government - 2012 statement on lifting post-Chernobyl sheep controls
- Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets
Sources for a Social Action Proposal
DCF: Producing → Sourcing, searching and planning digital content
GCSE Social Studies Unit 4: Planning to Effect Social Change, section 4.1.1 Understanding social action, with the Unit 2 criteria for assessing the credibility of sources. Practice only, not NEA work: the town and issue are invented. Pupils rewrite a vague internet search using exact phrases, site:, the minus sign and Welsh, judge seven sources on a missing evening bus (council report, bus company blog, social media post, youth survey, old newspaper, advert and a Welsh-language papur bro) for accuracy, authority, currency, bias and purpose, write full references, and draft a proposal of the issue, its impact on the community and the desired change.
Adnoddau angenrheidiol
- Pupil worksheet: Sources for a Social Action Proposal
- Stimulus: No bus after 17:40, the Llanfeurig source pack (search results and seven sources)
- Worked example: searches, credibility grid, references, model proposal and limitations
Offer angenrheidiol
- Pen and paper
- Highlighters