teacher_notes.md

Week 4 – Decisions (Choose Your Path)

Objectives

• Use if/elif/else for branching
• Use comparisons and a small amount of AND/OR
• Keep a score or lives variable and modify it

Concept explanation

• if/elif/else is the “rules engine” of a game.

Lesson flow (60–75 min)

1. (10 min) Warm-up: add one more hint to Week 3
2. (10 min) Explain if/elif/else using a simple example
3. (25 min) Guided build: 2–3 choices story
4. (20 min) Student challenge: add score + a “good ending”
5. (5 min) Wrap-up: student explains which line is the rule

Success criteria

• Program shows different outcomes based on choices.