3 Reasons Why Coding is Relevant for Kids in this Generation (Part II)
Conditional with Cards (Age 9)
Learning Points:
Conditionals - If⌠Else Statement
Instructions:
1) Prepare materials: Cards of 2 colours of equal amount i.e. 10 Green and 10 Yellow.
2) Divide the 10 children into equal number of 2 teams i.e. 5 children in one team.
3) One team will be Green and the other will be Yellow.
4) Get a Green team member to choose a card from the deck.
5) If it shows a Green card, the green team member will get 1 point. If it shows a Yellow card, the yellow team will get 1 point instead.
6) Then, yellow team will choose a card from the deck. If the card shows yellow, the team will get 1 point, otherwise Green team will get a point.
7) Once the cards are picked at least once, calculate the number of points earned by each team.
8) Explain that the rules of the game is governed by the conditionals coding concept.
Explanations:
1) For Green Team,
If card is green, get 1 point for your team, Else the Yellow Team will get 1 point.
2) For Yellow Team,
If card is yellow, get 1 point for your team, Else the Green Team will get 1 point.
Turing Test - Talk to Me in Computer Language (Age 9)
Learning Point:
Distinguish the intelligence between a computer and human
Instructions:
1) Have 4 children act as actors and the rest will be audience.
2) Break the ice by asking children if they think computer is intelligent and further discuss with the children.
3) Assign A and B as information feeder, C as computer and D as human.
4) The idea is to get the audience to ask questions (based on the list below) and by analysing to the answers given by human and computer, they will guess the identity of C or D (if they are a computer and a human.)
5) Have a discussion on why do they think that the chosen question is a good question to distinguish C and D identity. Reasoning is important as it forces children to think what answer would an intelligent person gave yet a computer could not.
6) Explain that A and B will go to C and D room to relay the questions. When they return with C and Dâs answers, the audience will discuss if it is from computer or human.
7) They have to guess multiple times until they use up all the questions.
Reference:
Question banks and answers for âcomputerâ.
1) Are you a computer? Are you a computer?
2) What is the next number in the sequence 3, 6, 9, 12, 15? 18.
3) What do you think of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons are very dangerous and should not be used.
4) What is 2 Ă 78? 166 (This is deliberately incorrect!)
5) What is the square root of two? 1.41421356237309504878
6) Add 34957 to 70764. Wait for about 20 seconds before giving the answer . . . 105621.
7) Do you like school? Yes, I like school.
8) Do you like dancing? Yes, I like dancing.
9) What day is it today? Give the correct day of the week.
10) What time is it? Give the correct time.
11) How many days are there in February in a leap year? 2000 and 2004 are leap years.
12) How many days are there in a week? Seven.
13) For which country is the flag a red circle on a white background? I donât know.
14) Do you like to read books? Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Yes,I like to read books.
15) What food do you like to eat? Iâm not hungry, thanks.
Questions credit to csunplugged.org
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