Booleans
A boolean has only two possible values: True or False. There is no “sort of”. Learning to phrase a question so it has a clean yes/no answer is half the skill.
Python for Kids · Class 6 · Module 3 of 9
Decisions with Conditions
This is where a program stops following one path and starts making choices.
8 sessionsSessions 17–24
4 weeksTypical pace
BeginnerLevel
Class 6Python & Coding
The big idea
Conditions let a program ask a yes-or-no question and act on the answer. Every login screen, every game-over message and every “are you sure?” box in existence is built from this one idea, repeated at scale.
Why it matters
Decision logic is the bridge between a script that runs the same way every time and software that reacts to the world.
Unpacked
What you will actually learn
Three core ideas, each taught with worked examples and then practised until it feels obvious.
If and else
if runs a block when the answer is True; else covers everything left over. elif lets you stack extra questions in between, checked in order from top to bottom.
Comparison operators
Comparison operators (>, <, ==, !=, >=, <=) are how you ask the question. Choosing > instead of >= is a one-character difference that changes who passes and who fails.
Did you know?
Python is one of very few popular languages where indentation is not a style choice — the spaces at the start of a line actually decide what belongs inside the if.
Common mix-up
“More ifs means smarter code.” Often the opposite. Two clear conditions usually beat six tangled ones, and are far easier to fix later.
Session by session
Your 8-session journey
Sessions 17–24 of the 72-session year, at two one-hour sessions per week.
- 1
Warm-up and big picture
Where this module fits, what you will build, and a hands-on starter that gets everyone curious about booleans.
- 2
Booleans
Guided teaching on booleans, worked through together with the teacher.
- 3
Booleans — practice lab
Independent practice, small challenges and one deliberate mistake to diagnose.
- 4
If and else
Guided teaching on if and else, building directly on the previous two sessions.
- 5
If and else — practice lab
Applied tasks that combine booleans and if and else in one piece of work.
- 6
Comparison operators
Comparison operators introduced and practised, completing the toolkit needed for the project.
- 7
Project build
Guided build session for the module project: Choose-your-path story.
- 8
Test, present and reflect
Finish, test against the checklist, present the work and explain the decisions behind it.
Project lab
Choose-your-path story
Every module ends with something the student built themselves and can demonstrate. This is the piece that goes into their portfolio and gets explained out loud at the end of session 24.
Try this at home
Write a program that reads a test score and prints a grade. Then hand it to a sibling and challenge them to find a score that breaks it.
It is finished when
- It works from start to finish without breaking
- You can explain every part of it in your own words
- You tested it and improved at least one thing afterwards
- Someone else used or understood it without your help
By the end of this module
Students finishing Module 3 can:
- Explain and use booleans without prompting
- Explain and use if and else without prompting
- Explain and use comparison operators without prompting
- Build and finish choose-your-path story
- Test your own work and correct what you find
- Talk an adult through what you made and why
Word bank
The vocabulary introduced here, in plain language:
- boolean
- A value that is either True or False.
- condition
- A question the program tests before deciding what to do.
- indentation
- The spaces that show which lines belong inside a block.
Module challenge
Think you have got this?
0 XPLevel 1 · Curious Beginner
6 quick questions drawn from this module — vocabulary, the project you build, and a myth-or-fact round. Every wrong answer explains itself, so a mistake still teaches you something.
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