Our lower school technology integrator uses Microworlds (an oldie, but still good) with the 3rd grade.

At the beginning of the year she had them create paper turtles out of index cards. On the back of the turtles the students drew a compass to help them with their positioning. There is also a cheat sheet with some of the instructions you type in to get the turtle to move. Like ‘pe’ = pen erase.

The front of the card has a turtle illustration and movement directions to help the student remember forward ‘fd’,  backward ‘bk’, left and right.

She saves the turtles in an envelope on her desk and takes them out when it looks like the students could use them.

Nice trick!