Typing – improve accuracy
- 5 minutes typing with the box
Bebras – develop CT skills
- Work your way through these challenges from Bebras
- As you finish each question, check the answer below it
- Have a go at
J2code – LOGO
j2launch – 
– 
Nov 042021
Nov 172020
Watch the video
- Explore the tools in Level 1 [1 point]
- Draw 3 letters [2 points]
- 3 different colours [3 points]
- 3 colours and at least one bubble letter [4 points]
- Look at the code in Level 3
- Save your work as “letters 1”
Skills: Level 1 tools – arrows, pen up , pen down, colours
Watch the video
- Put lines in using Enter key
- Type reset and setpensize 20 and play [1 point]
- Use ; to label letters [2 points]
- Change pensize for different letters [3 points]
- Create multicoloured letters [4 points]
Skills:
- Put lines in with Enter key
- Reset
- Setpensize (with a number)
- Colour “blue
- ; for comments
Nov 102020
- Go to the Bebras website
- Select the age group then start
- Make sure you check the answers so you can learn from your mistakes or your successes
- If you have finished, choose one of the following:
Jan 102020
- j2launch –
- Click on Level 3
- Type these two instructions:
reset
setpensize 5
- Can you draw a letter?
- Use these commands:
- fd 30 (or other numbers)
- bk 30 (or other numbers)
- lt 90
- rt 90
- (Diagonal letters will need rt 45 or lt 45)
- Press play
each time to see if it works – don’t carry on until you are happy with each instruction.
- If you finish one letter, type
- pu (pen up)
- move to a new place using fd, lt, rt…
- pd (pen down)
- Try another letter
Challenges
- Change the pensize to 30
- Could you make different letters different pensizes?
- For a letter that contains a square, use this square code
- repeat 4 [fd 80 rt 90]
- Change the colour of each letter by putting this code before the letter code:
- colour “blue
Nov 102019
- j2launch –
- Click on Level 3
- Type reset
- This code draws a single step like the one below:
- fd 30
- rt 90
- fd 30
- lt 90
- Press play – you should get this:
- Now add this to your code:
- pu
setxy -200 50
pd
- pu
- Challenge 1: Make this shape by typing more instructions:
- Now add this to your code:
- pu
setxy 130 100
pd
- pu
- Challenge 2: Now make a square:
- Now add this to your code:
- pu
setxy -140 -140
pd
- pu
- Challenge 3:
- Now add this to your code:
- pu
setxy 140 – 140
pd
- pu
- Challenge 4:
The final picture should look like this:
Is there any way we could make our code simpler? Some of the algorithms repeat instructions.
Success steps:
- Copy instructions carefully
- Press play to run program
- Make instructions to draw simple shapes including forward, left and right
- Check instructions carefully for mistakes (bugs)
If you have finished, try working through these debugging challenges!
And if you finish that…! Start a new file and start with this code.
- reset
- setpensize 5
Can you draw a letter? ~(Diagonal letters will need rt 45 or lt 45)
Oct 232019
- j2launch – JIT5 – Turtle
- Big bad wolf
- Make the wolf visit the three houses
- Space
- Visit each of the planets
- Desert adventure
- Get to the pond without touching prickly cactus
- Cars
- Reverse the car into a single space
- Flowers
- Visit each of the flowers
- use the arrows
- see the code
- press play
- use the arrows (character doesn’t move)
- see the code
- press play
- send character back to start
- to delete code
Feb 112019
Success steps
- Log into j2e
- Go to j2code
and click the big LOGO button 
- Follow the instructions on the sheet
- Use the arrow keys to draw three letters
- Remember
- forward is always the way the turtle is pointing
- Left and right always mean “turn on the spot”
- ** Draw a bubble letter (you will need pen up and pen down)
- ** Edit the program text to make the pen thicker
- Save work
Help videos
Letter 2 extension:
Add this arround your code:
repeat 4 [ repeat 11 [L] rt 90 ]
Nov 072016
- Log into j2e – j2code – LOGO
- Click on “Level 3”
- Type:
- reset
- setpensize 5
- fd 20
- Now press play – it should draw a short line (length 20)
- Try changing the 20 to other numbers and press play to see what happens.
- Now change your code to:
- fd 30
- rt 90
- fd 30
- lt 90
- Press play – you should get this:
- Now add this to your code:
- pu
setxy -200 50
pd
- pu
- Challenge 1: Make this shape by typing more instructions:
- Now add this to your code:
- pu
setxy 130 100
pd
- pu
- Challenge 2: Now make a square:
- Now add this to your code:
- pu
setxy -140 -140
pd
- pu
- Challenge 3:
- Now add this to your code:
- pu
setxy 140 – 140
pd
- pu
- Challenge 4:
Is there any way we could make our code simpler? Some of the algorithms repeat instructions.
Success steps:
- Copy instructions carefully
- Press play to run program
- Make instructions to draw simple shapes including forward, left and right
- Check instructions carefully for mistakes (bugs)