Python Core Skills for Year 8

Year 8 had a PRIMM Python course in Year 7 but had forgotten a lot of content during the summer break. These three lessons were a response to that in order to rekindle their knowledge and skills and also to get them to think, practically, about programming. This set of three, 60-minute, lessons covers input-process-output, uses of selection and a programming challenge for the final lesson to build a simple multiple questions times table quiz that saves and outputs a score. The resource is made with Python 3.7 in mind. It comprises one labeled and editable PowerPoint for each lesson and supporting files. The Grog Python cheat sheet is not provided (as this is copyright material) which can be easily searched for on the internet. Lesson 3 makes use of a ‘parson’ sheet as a prompt for students which is a version of a solution for the problem containing scrambled lines of code to get them thinking about commands that are needed to solve the problem that are also a good source of syntactically correct code.