LESSONS

(teacher is developing tasks / challenges for students to complete in the following programs)
 * WHICH ACTIVITIES REQUIRE LESSONS** because they are more complex

Barry Newell's Turtle Confusion book / worksheet. Plan to spend a week building these shapes (week 7, Term 3)
 * Turtle Art**:


 * Morphic**: Both Etoys and DrGeo11 use the morphic GUI. Right click on an object and a series of haloes pop up which allow you to do various things (change size, change colour, paint background, duplicate, move, pick up, menu, collapse, open a viewer, make a tile to represent object, rotate)

more on morphic: http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2007/09/morphic-etoys-is-superior-graphical.html

online tutorial: Drive a Car http://www.squeakland.org/school/drive_a_car/html/Drivecar12.html Need to organise some follow up tutorials
 * Etoys**: visual programming environment, start with the car and steering wheel demonstration


 * Pippy**: (Python)

beginner's tutorial: http://linux.org.mt/article/terminal
 * Terminal**: (Linux)

//Dr. Geo allows one to create geometric figure plus the interactive manipulation of such figure in respect with their geometric constraints// You can download Dr Geo at home for any OS (Mac, Linux, Windows) and play with it: http://download.gna.org/istoa/drgeo/ Looking at the samples on this download is a good starting point [|video/screen-cast demonstration] of DrGeo 11 and its features
 * Dr Geo 11**:

It is a robot represented by a triangle on the screen that moves around in a world made up of streets and avenues, walls and beepers, which Guido can collect or set. His actions are completely guided by a program written by the user
 * Guido van Robot**:

Home of Guido van Robot: http://gvr.sourceforge.net/index.php (GvR runs on Windows, Macintosh, and GNU/Linux and can be downloaded from this site)

GvR lessons: http://gvr.sourceforge.net/lessons/rfrank/

Cartoon Builder, FlipSticks, Jigsaw Puzzle, Slider puzzle, Story Builder (we have a problem in that they don't "fit" properly on our school computer screens at their current resolution)
 * MaMaMedia**:

educational games
 * gcompris**:

others? (any suggestions?)