KS3 Minecraft Education: Coding Lesson 6 Computer Science

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Lesson 6. Conditional Logic & Sensing

• Brief recap of nested loops and a starter quiz on block counts

• Introduction to conditional statements (if/then and if/then/else logic)

• Demonstrating the Agent’s environmental sensing blocks (detecting blocks and obstacles)

• Teacher modelling: programming the Agent to turn when encountering an obstacle

• Guided task: creating a maze-solving algorithm using conditional checks

• Student activity: write code allowing the Agent to clear land while avoiding water

• Discussion on decision-making algorithms and logical reasoning in software

• Check for understanding: evaluating boolean true/false conditions in sample code

• Independent task: build an automated tree-clearing script with sensing loops

• Debugging challenge: solving infinite loops caused by missing condition updates

• Peer demonstration of maze navigation algorithms in different world layouts

• Lesson review on combining loops and conditional statements effectively