KS3 Python Turtle Graphics: Year 7 Computing Unit (3 Lessons)

A short end-of-year unit that brings programming and computational thinking together. Pupils draw with Python turtle, meet their first for loop and design a picture of their own.

3 complete 55-minute lessons for Year 7, ready to teach.

The lessons

1. Turtle graphics: drawing with sequence.
2. Loops and patterns: repeating with for.
3. Design a turtle picture, using a loop, a variable and if/else, with a plan and tests (assessed).

What is included for every lesson

• A PowerPoint deck of 26 to 33 slides with speaker notes on every slide and click animations for reveals
• A 55-minute lesson plan with timings
• A printable worksheet
• An answer sheet

How it is taught

• A Do Now at the start of every lesson, to bring back earlier learning
• Hinge questions to check understanding before pupils move on
• Worked examples (I do, we do, you do), then pupil practice
• Unplugged games and mini-whiteboard activities. Every lesson is hands-on coding.
• Real photos and clear diagrams, with the photo credit on each deck
• A short exit ticket and a summary slide

Lesson 3 is an assessed turtle picture with a plan and tests.

Slides are editable PowerPoint (.pptx). Each lesson plan fills a full 55-minute lesson, minute by minute.

British English throughout. Part of a complete KS3 Computer Science course for Years 7 to 9.