OER4Schools/ICT/Robots and spreadsheets part 2

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Facilitator distributes "traffic lights". In Zambia, and part of southern Africa, these are knowns as "robots".[Z]. In Kenya these are known as traffic lights and that is what we are going to refer to.[K]


Traffic lights, How to make traffic lights

Activity icon.png Introduction (5 min) to Traffic lights(a). (Or, "robots", if you prefer.)[Z] Traffic lights (robots)[Z] have three lights - red, orange and green. These lights signal to drivers what action they should take on the road with each coloured light having a different meaning associated with it: Red means STOP; Orange means GET READY TO GO and Green means GO. Their meanings for classroom application are:

  • RED means “I’m stuck. I need some extra help. I don’t feel I have progressed.”
  • ORANGE means “I’m not quite sure. I need a little help. I feel I have made some progress.”
  • GREEN means “I understand fully. I’m okay without help. I feel I have progressed a lot.”

While you do practical work in groups, make a stack of your three cards near your groups. Place the colour on top which shows how you are progressing as a group. The facilitator will see the colour and help you appropriately.

Activity icon.png Different-tasks group work (15 min) with ICT on various topics. You now have 15 minutes to do ICT practice, and we return to working with spreadsheets. Below are the two sets of exercises with spreadsheets: one you have already encountered in a previous session, and the other is new. Revisit what you have done, and then work on some new things. Remember, that many of the applications you are using are pretty open ended, so explore additional things that interest you.

You can print this content on a separate sheet here: OER4Schools/Spreadsheet exercises/1.

You can print this content on a separate sheet here: OER4Schools/Spreadsheet exercises/2.