The purpose to this lesson is to introduce students to basic, fundamental programming concepts using the Turtle module from Python.  Students will understand how and why loops are used in programming and will create their own loops to create various drawings in Turtle.

This performance task is a computer science (CS) integration project where your students will take you on a virtual field trip. It can be to a museum, a historical site, a modern destination, a book, a planet or really anywhere. Along the way, they will incorporate CS concepts into their projects including sequences, conditionals, and events to add interactivity. This is a great project for students to share their research and learning from a wide variety of subject areas like social studies, language arts, world languages, history, etc. This unit includes 5th grade standards for the Virginia CS Standards of Learning, but it can easily be adapted for younger and older students. The latest resources for this project can be found at https://sites.google.com/virginia.edu/virtualfieldtrip/resources.

 This lesson is part of the Virginia K-12 Computer Science Pipeline which is partly funded through a GO Virginia grant in partnership with Chesapeake Public Schools, Loudoun County Public Schools, and the Loudoun Education Foundation.  Students will design and conduct an investigation to answer the question, "What is the relationship between mass and distance a robot travels?"  The lesson uses WeDo 2.0 robots; however, other robots may be used as well as conducted without robotics.  This lesson was written for 5th graders; however, the content alignes with SOL PS.8 as well.