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Extra resources
BBC GCSE bitesize revision on Control Flash activity for ordering the steps for making a cup of tea - nice animations
ICTGCSE site - click on the theory link then select the control section Control and monitoring online quizzes and info - see the case study on the Dartford tunnel
Bradford LEA powerpoint resources for traffic light sequence Traffic light programming exercise showing two traffic lights working together
Lancashire LEA Control section Staffordshire Pupil/Teacher record sheets
Learning diaries for the Sample Teaching Units from Lewisham LEA Objective activities from Control and monitoring training session Activity 1, Activity 2 and Activity 3

  Life cycle of a system - drag and drop activity

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Flowol LEGO
Flowol homepage LEGO HOME LEGO Mindstorms page
Data Harvest downloads for Flowol demo version brick.gif (11503 bytes) Download LEGO ROBOLAB demo software
Flowol manual (pdf) Intro and links for LEGO Mindstorms users
Mimic creator manual for Flowol (pdf) Unofficial Mindstorms webpage
Outline lesson plan using Flowol - includes two introductions to Flowol powerpoint presentations  
Intro to Flowol powerpoint and Zebra crossing powerpoint - presentations made clearer (from above site)  
   
Other software Sensing with webcams
Introduction to MSWLOGO online BBC website webcams
Crocodile Clips Technology - download a free 30 day demo version. BBC weather webcam
Logicator - view a Flash demo of Economatics control software ICT Centre at Lancaster weather data http://www.ict.lancsngfl.ac.uk/weather/••
LogIT lab - Download free demo version of software for use with LogIT explorer Heriott-Watt University Cairngorm weather data
i-Catcher - motion detecting software for webcams Met Office webcam and graphs of weather data for Aviemore, Scotland
Smartcard controller and reader suppliers Online weather site for York - used for web query