History of Computers: all 20 printable lessons (Package of 20), ages 11-14

A full term of computing history for ages 11 to 14, ready to teach. 20 printable lessons that follow 20 free videos step by step, from beads and pebbles on a counting board to AI on your own desk.

Try it before you buy: every video is free (see kitson-workshop.pages.dev/history), and Lesson 1 (the abacus) is a free download. Every other lesson works the same way.

Watch a part. Pause. Talk. Try it. Then press play again.

What you get: 20 printable PDF lessons, one for each episode. Every lesson has:

• A one-page guide for the grown-up, with the exact times to pause the video
• Key words, and a "think first" question
• Pupil pages for each part of the video: what we just heard, questions to talk about, and something to try
• Worksheets, the story in pictures, and a quiz
• All the answers, teaching notes, and the sources for every fact

The story: the Antikythera mechanism, Babbage and Ada Lovelace, punched cards, Turing and the codebreakers, ENIAC, the transistor and the chip, IBM System/360, UNIX, the microprocessor, home computers, the IBM PC, windows and the mouse, ARPANET and the Web, phones, the GPU, the cloud, machine learning, large language models and AI on a desk.

Time and materials: about 45 minutes per lesson, so roughly a full term at one lesson a week. Pencils and dried beans or counters; later lessons add scissors for cut-outs. Pupils don't need computers: you only need a way to play the video to the group.

Price: bought one by one, lessons 2 to 20 cost $152 (lesson 1 is free). The package is $129, and code SAVE10 takes a further 10% off ($116.10).

A good fit if you teach ages 11 to 14 (it works from 9 with help), homeschool, or run a computing club, and want a ready unit with answers and sources.

Not the right fit if you want a course pupils work through alone (these are lessons a grown-up leads), or you need one copy for a whole school (one purchase covers one teacher or one family).

Questions

• Can I print copies? Yes: print as many copies as your own pupils need, as often as you like.
• Can I see a full lesson first? Yes: Lesson 1 is free.
• Anything else? Email kit376351@gmail.com.

Every drawing and every word is our own. The free videos are at kitson-workshop.pages.dev/#history

Pay once, use it for ever: one purchase covers one teacher or one family. Use the lessons as often as you like with your own classes, and print as many copies as your own pupils need. Please do not resell them or pass the files on.

For educational purposes only. Not affiliated with any company named in the lessons.