Flowcharts and Decision Paths gives Grade 6 Computer Science students focused practice with visual algorithms, flowchart symbols, arrows, decisions, and branching logic. In this Algorithms and Problem Solving lesson, students learn how a flowchart represents a process and how a decision can send an algorithm along different paths toward different outcomes.

What Students Practice

• Identify common flowchart symbols and explain their purposes.
• Trace arrows and decision branches to determine how an algorithm proceeds.
• Explain how decisions can create different outcomes in an algorithm.
• Create and interpret step-by-step logic using flowcharts.

Activities and Question Types

The worksheet combines a dialogue, matching activity, cloze passage, labeled diagram, reading passage, multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short-answer questions, and an extended-response prompt. The reading focuses on rounded start or end shapes, rectangles for actions, diamond-shaped decisions, arrows showing direction, and branches that represent different choices.

Classroom Use

Use this resource during an Algorithms and Problem Solving lesson, for guided practice after introducing flowchart symbols, or as independent work for students who need practice tracing decision paths. The activities move from identifying and interpreting flowchart elements to explaining how symbols, arrows, and branches work together to represent an algorithm.

Teacher Support Included

A separate Teacher Guide PDF is included with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes. This provides practical support for introducing flowcharts, discussing decision branches, and helping students explain the logic shown in a diagram.

Students finish by explaining how a flowchart can represent an algorithm containing a decision, including the roles of symbols, arrows, and branches and how following the correct branch can produce a different outcome.