The ‘investigate’ stage gives students some example code and asks them questions about it to check their understanding. I use the block model to plan my questions. Try it, it’s really useful.

These are statements that allow Python to perform different tasks in different situations.

This is used all the time in real life. One example could be:

IF it is raining, THEN I will take my umbrella

In the example, the second part ONLY happens if the first part is true.

If…Else statements rely on a boolean condition to decide whether or not to run the code.

Boolean conditions check if something is True or False.

Boolean conditions are written using logical operators. These are:

When using the == operator, case matters. Hello World is not equal to hello world.

# Code with one statement
if condition:
    print("Run this code")

# Code with else statement
if condition: 
    print("Run this code if the condition is True")
else: 
    print("Run this code if the condition is False")

Make sure to check your code for the following things:

• A colon at the end of each if and else line.
• Each branch is indented unsing the TAB key (not just spaces)
• No condition after ‘else’
• A double equals in the condition (==) when checking that two pieces of data are the same.