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 learn about the following:

• What procedures are and why they are needed in programming.
• How to create Procedures for more efficient code production.
• Different types of shapes i.e. pentagon, hexagon, nonagon, dodecagon

This lesson comes with the following resources:

• Teacher powerpoint (editable)
• Teacher powerpoint (pdf)
• Student worksheet (pdf)
• Homework 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