Lesson: 10 - Conditional Statements and Loops

Purpose :Students learn nested conditional statements and typical for-loops.

Materials Required

Cards, Dice, paper, pen

Curriculum Content 5.5.1) Activity (If-else) 5.4) Loops, 5.4.1) Activity (for loop), 5.4.2) for loop.
Prior knowledge

Students should know about simple if-else and loop.

Exercises

Exercise:1


  1. Play the if-then-else with cards the game to understand Conditional statements.


See the video to learn the activity. (Conditional statement taught by Asha teacher in tamil)

See the video for the activity in English done by Code.org.

Exercise:2


  1. Play the Dice game for looping to understand Loops.


The students will play the game in pairs. Here is the procedure to play the activity:


  1. Step 1 🡪 First both students should roll a dice. Note it down; these are the starting numbers in this game.
  2. Step 2 🡪 Then both students should roll the dice again. These are the jumping numbers. Note down these numbers.
  3. Step 3 🡪 Then student have to roll the dice three times. Add the three numbers. This is the ending number for this game.
  4. Step 4 🡪 Then you have to fix starting number and ending number given from the sample image. Then you have to jump the jumping number steps from the starting number till you reach or cross the ending number. You count how many times you can jump between starting to end numbers. Whoever has the larger number of jumps wins the game.

Here is the sample image below..


See the video to learn the activity (Loops - taught by Asha teacher in tamil)


See the video for the activity in English done by Code.org.


Teacher's Instruction
  1. Teachers can initially help the students to play the games inactivity. Teachers can play with one student when the other watches.
  2. Teachers should relate the game to conditional statements and looping and describe the activity using the terms looping and conditions.