Teaching conditionals

[appollox]

Conditionals are easily related to classroom procedures. For example, " if" you put your work into the "Return" tray, "Else" you will get credit for you work. "If" you put work anywhere not the tray, "Else" you will get no credit for your work.

[liubovpoliagushko]

I will teach the conditions of children 5-6 years for the first time, so I'll try the proposed option. I think that they will like it.

[julie.bartels]

I can see where there could be some confusion with "if then" and "if else" statements. I think that it would be very helpful to practice using this as a prompt in daily oral language activities to foster an understanding of the vocabulary term conditionals and how to use them not only in computer science but in our everyday lives.

[whitney.cynthia]

Conditionals could be illustrated through a game like Simon Says. If the teacher says "Simon Says" before an instruction, you follow it. Else you don't. If you follow the instruction and your teacher didn't say "Simon Says" then you must sit down.

[ksato2]

Since my students are teachers who want to teach CS in K-12, we would try some of the unplugged lessons to explore and learn about conditionals. We'll use a role playing method and some teachers will play a part of a teacher and some will play the part of students.

[clindberg]

Out of school for summer, so no experiments possible with class right now. Loved the ideas suggested by posters and the activities suggested on the website.

[sheryl.spark]

Explaining conditions to kindergarten students happens frequently, especially if they are noisy. My was of explaining conditionals was, if the entire class is quiet during an assignment we will have recess if not we will not have it. Another example is if the entire class is good during specials for the whole week then on Friday we get to watch a movie, if not we will do worksheets instead.

[leticia.munoz]

I have not taught conditionals before, but the great examples you provided will help me introduce them to my students.

[jenniferbruton]

I would use everyday life examples with age appropriate ideas to explain conditionals. Since I teacher high school you could use examples about cell phone bill, getting you drivers license, getting (keeping) a job, etc.

[dianedra_aytona]

I like using the example of the class being quiet for X amount of seconds. If you're quiet, then I'll do a handstand or sing an opera song (or give you extra recess). During our workshop, we played a game of Mother May I- "If you are wearing a purple shirt, take one step forward" or "If you are wearing sandals, take a step back." We talked about using equity sticks or randomly pulling these conditionals out of a bag (to promote equity). I also like using the deck of cards example: If you get a red card, then you get one point. So, if you don't get a red card/pull a black card, then you lose a point.