7 ready-to-teach KS3 Computer Science lessons for Year 8: Python: Decisions & Loops. Editable slides, lesson plans, worksheets and full answers.
The first unit of Year 8, building straight on Programming 1: more complex decisions and both kinds of loop, plus counting and totalling, two of the IGCSE standard methods.
What’s included- 7 PowerPoint lessons, one per lesson, with photos, click-by-click activities and speaker notes
- Lesson plan pack (Word): objectives and a timed 50-minute plan for every lesson, plus teacher notes
- 7 student worksheets (Word), ready to print or edit
- Answer pack (Word) with answers for every worksheet section
- Welcome back: Year 7 retrieval quiz and Programming 1 recap
- Selection with elif and Boolean operators (and, or, not)
- while loops and input validation
- for loops and range()
- Counting and totalling
- Testing and debugging: normal, boundary and erroneous data
- Build a number game (assessed)
elif, Boolean operator, iteration, while loop, for loop, validation, total
AssessmentNumber game using a loop, selection and a running total (L7).
Format- PowerPoint (.pptx) and Word (.docx), fully editable
- Works in PowerPoint and Google Slides (some animations may look different in Google Slides)
- Written for the English national curriculum for KS3 computing, and builds towards GCSE / IGCSE Computer Science
Photos are from Wikimedia Commons under free licences and are credited on each slide and in LICENSES.txt.
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