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Busy Things hosts over 1600 curriculum-linked activities and games for early years and primary aged children. A school subscription also includes lots of features and tools for teachers that promise to save planning time. Take a free trial to have a proper play or book a demo here.
Traffic lights
Use the corner spanner icon to fully configure the gadget. Options include:
- choice of wording
- colour of lights
- size, orientation and position
- background.
Teaching tips:
Use this gadget to support your teaching or other classroom activities, for example:
Use as a 'starting gun' for a quick activity, like tidying up or handing books out.
Use in PE for the start of a race or to play the traffic light warm up game: red means freeze, orange means get ready by marching on the spot and green means run/jog/hop/skip!
Assessing/support: assign a phrase to each colour, for example, green means ‘I understand’ orange could mean ‘I am a little unsure’ and red could mean ‘I don’t understand’ children could then have coloured stickers or draw a coloured circle to indicate which one they are to let the teacher know how well they have understood a task or who might need more support. Or children could place their books next to a red, orange or green coloured piece of card at the end of a task.
Use to practise following commands, for example green means begin a task, red means stop, orange means put your pens/pencils down and listen, reducing the need to shout out verbal commands.
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Unlimited children in a single nurseryYour free trial includes
- access to 1600+ of fun educational activities and games
- Create an area just for your class (school version)
- Track activities and send feedback (school version)
- Customisable games and activities targeting core maths, literacy and phonics skills
- Creative activities working with colours, shapes and sounds
- Busy Code - a whole suite of activities and guides for teaching children how to code
- A custom phonics and maths worksheet maker
- Curriculum-links and activity search
- Pupil timelines - see what your pupils have been doing
- Set assignments and collate results
- Play on desktop computers, laptops and tablets
Schools
Schools have no limit on the number of pupils that can use Busy Things simultaneously.
