Turtle Academy is online coding software which teaches your students to write computer code/computer instructions in an easy to understand manner. This is achieved through writing very simple instructions to create basic (& even complex shapes).

Turtle Academy is also an alternative to using Python Programming and is suitable for less able/younger students who may initially find it difficult to code in Python.

In this lesson, students will independently practise the following skills

• Coding to create basic shapes (Sequencing and Algorithms)
• Coding with efficiency by using Loops (iteration)
• Coding with efficiency by using Procedures
• Coding different shapes of varying line widths and color.

This lesson comes with the following resources:

• Teacher powerpoint (editable)
• Teacher powerpoint (pdf)
• Student worksheet (pdf)
• I Can Statements

Get ahead with developing your own and your students’ skills to learn programming. This is an ideal resource to meet the computational Thinking standard of the 2016 ISTE Standards.

Turtle Academy is a free online software and can be accessed from: https://turtleacademy.com/playground