Students seat the micro:bit in the expansion board, wire the LED modules, and program a working traffic light. This is the first lesson where wiring mistakes, not code mistakes, are what stops them — budget time for checking connections.
The full facilitator’s guide
Facilitator's Guide: Lesson 1 Wiring LEDs with micro:bit Expansion Board
What this lesson is in Canvas
- Learn: Lesson 1 Wiring LEDs with micro:bit Expansion Board — the interactive module, hosted in Articulate RISE
- Do: Lesson 1 Wiring LEDs with micro:bit Expansion Board — the wiring build and worksheet, 5 pts
- Checkpoint: Lesson 1 Wiring LEDs with micro:bit Expansion Board — Canvas quiz, unlimited retakes, 4 pts
Check the worksheet link before you assign it. The link labelled “Worksheet: Lesson 1” points at the same Drive file as the facilitator’s guide above, so it opens a copy of the teacher guide rather than a student worksheet. The Kitronik worksheet in the panel below is the only student worksheet for this lesson currently in Canvas.
🖥️ Teaching it live instead
You can present this lesson yourself rather than sending students through the Learn module in Articulate RISE. These are the same materials in presentable and printable form:
Presentation: Lesson 1 Wiring LEDs with micro:bit Expansion Board
Worksheet: Lesson 1 Wiring LEDs with micro:bit Expansion Board
Worksheet: Lesson 1 Wiring LEDs with micro:bit Expansion Board (Kitronik kit) · Make a Google copy
Checkpoint: Lesson 1 Wiring LEDs with micro:bit Expansion Board (printable)