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Introduction

Turtle Art is a logo based programming environment for introducing students to the basics of programming. We can use this to develop visualization, logical reasoning and algorithmic sense in students by performing various operations with the Turtle. This is a brief introduction to a sample of lessons using Turtle. More information can be found on sugarlabs page.

Course Outline

Lesson 1 - Moving the Turtle

Lesson 2 -Make the Turtle Move with different inputs and to display outputs

Lesson 3 - Simplifying programming – repeating instructions and blocks

Lesson 4 - Arithmetic manipulation using Turtle Art

Lesson 5 - Creating action sequences and patterns based on defined actions

Turtle art Lesson template

An outline for creating your own lessons

Objectives
Demonstration activities by teacher in class
Student hands-on activities
Assessment ideas/ portfolio

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-=Week 1=
+=Introduction=
-{|class="wikitable"
-|-
-|Week 1
-|Moving the Turtle
-|-
-|Objectives
-|
-#Demonstrate the possibilities of movement using the Turtle
-#Visualize space, co-ordinates and shapes through movement and vice versa
-#Familiarization with the move/ draw/ colour functionalities of Turtle Art
-#Familiarization of ways of defining parameters - movement, co-ordinates and colour
-|-
-|Hands-on Activity
-|Activity #1 (Part A)
-#Making the Turtle move without a trace
-#Instruct the turtle to move by repeating a set of instructions
-#Determine/ identify the shape the turtle will trace; pay attention to the orientation of the turtle
-#View this with the co-ordinates and without the co-ordinates
-#Count the number of times instructions are repeated
-#What is the relation, if any, between the number of times the instruction is repeated and the shape traced by the turtle
-#Color the palette
-|-
-|Screenshot of Part-A
-|[[Image:Turtle1a.png|300px]]
-|-
-|Hands-on Activity
-|Activity #1 (Part B)
-#Making the Turtle move with a trace
-#Change the pen parameters - colour and thickness
-#Instruct the turtle to move by repeating a set of instructions
-#Determine/ identify the shape the turtle will trace; pay attention to the orientation of the turtle.  Is this the same/ different as what you expected when you did not trace?  If there is a difference, what is different and why?
-#Describe the turtle's movement (in words)
-#View this with the co-ordinates and without the co-ordinates
-#Count the number of times instructions are repeated
-#What is the relation, if any, between the number of times the instruction is repeated and the shape traced by the turtle.  Show this using "Run" and "Step" options to understand the movement
-#Colour the palette with the given values.
-#And execute the code in the the following three sequences and find out why the output is different
-|-
-|Screenshots for the above activity
-|[[Image:Turtle1B-1.png|300px]]<br>
-[[Image:Turtle1B-2.png|300px]]
-[[Image:turtle1B-3.png|300px]]
-|-
-|Questions and Assignments
-|[[Image:Turtle1B-sample.png|200px|left]]
-See the picture here.  What should the command have been   for this? How many times were the instructions repeated?
-# Use the Turtle move commands to generate a shape
-#For a given shape, write the Turtle commands
-|}
-=Week 2=
-{|class="wikitable"
-|-
-|Week 2
-|Make the Turtle Move with different inputs and to display outputs
-|-
-|Objectives
-|
-#Familiarization of ways of defining parameters - movement, co-ordinates and colour
-#Visualize space, co-ordinates and shapes through movement and vice versa
-#Deconstruct the logic in a sequence of instructions
-|-
-|Hands-on Activity
-|Activity #1 (Part A)
-#Make the turtle move to a given co-ordinate position; turtle can be moved by specifying the end position also
-#Demonstrate movements of the turtle using the angle block
-#What does the radius mean? What does the angle instruct the turtle?
-#To draw a circle, what would you instruct the turtle?
-#See the picture here.  What should have been the commands? (Hint : it involves co-ordinates and angles)
-|-
-|Screenshot of Part-A and Part-B
-|[[File:1..png|200px]][[File:2..png|200px]]
-|-
-|Hands-on Activity
-|Activity #1 (Part B)
-#The Turtle can also display outputs using the Print block from the extra options palette.
-#The Turtle can be used to label a figure, using the Show block to be found on main palette.
-#The Turtle block to be found on extra options palette allows you to change the colour of the Turtle
-#Here is a piece of programming to show how to print and how to change the colour of the Turtle and label a text.
-|-
-|Screenshot of Part-B
-|[[File:3.png|400px]]Guess why the text “Square” appears 4 times.  What can you do to avoid it?
-|-
-|Hands-on Activity
-|Activity #1 (Part C)
-#Fun with changing colours and shapes
-#Use the command heading
-#Make the students draw shapes, vary colour
-|-
-|Screenshots for Part C
-|[[File:11.png|200px]][[File:12.png|200px]]<br>
-[[File:13.png|200px]][[File:14.png|200px]]Ask the students to work with more Turtle cards - http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art
-|-
-|Hands-on Activity
-|Portfolio components (Part D)
-#Ask students to construct circle of different radii
-#Construct the following nested circles and explore further such creations using Angle, Co-ordinates, Left, Right, Backward, Forward, etc
-#What commands did you use? Are there any different ways of doing this?
-|-
-|Screenshots for Part D
-|[[File:21.png|200px]][[File:22.png|200px]]
-|}
+Turtle Art is a logo based programming environment for introducing students to the basics of programming.  We can use this to develop visualization, logical reasoning and algorithmic sense in students by performing various operations with the Turtle. This is a brief introduction to a sample of lessons using Turtle.  More information can be found on [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art sugarlabs] page.
+=Course Outline=
+==[[Turtle_Art_Week_1|Lesson 1 - Moving the Turtle]]==
+==[[Turtle_art_lesson_2|Lesson 2 -Make the Turtle Move with different inputs and to display outputs]]==
+==[[Turtle_art_lesson_3|Lesson 3 - Simplifying programming – repeating instructions and blocks]]==
+==[[Turtle_art_lesson_4|Lesson 4 - Arithmetic manipulation using Turtle Art]]==
+==[[Turtle_art_lesson_5|Lesson 5 - Creating action sequences and patterns based on defined actions]]==
+=Turtle art Lesson template=
+An outline for creating your own lessons
+*Objectives
+*Demonstration activities by teacher in class
+*Student hands-on activities
+*Assessment ideas/ portfolio
+[[Category:Turtle Art]]
+[[Category:Courses]]
-=Week 3=
-=Week 4=
-=Week 5=

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