Creative Amplify sits at the Creative row and Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Below: real Geography lessons for elementary school (KS2, Years 3 to 6, ages 7 to 11) that sit in Creative Amplify, plus anti-examples that look like it but sit elsewhere.
Grade 3 habitat map of the school grounds in Google Earth, one zone per pair
The teacher divides the school grounds into fifteen zones, such as the hedge, the pond edge, the flowerbed and a corner of the playground, and each pair surveys theirs in three short sessions across the week, photographing plants and minibeasts with no people in shot and noting where each was found. In the first lesson pairs identify their species with a class key. In the second, working in a Google Earth project the teacher has shared with the class, each pair adds a placemark for its zone with photos, a species list and two sentences on why those living things suit that habitat. The class then explores the map together, comparing damp, shady zones with dry, sunny ones, and the project stays shared with the class only through school accounts.
Tools: Google Earth Nine ideas for your own version in Generate
Padlet map of our local landmarks with children's recorded explanations
After a local walk planned under the school's trips policy, each child chooses four public places in the area, such as the library, the park, the war memorial or a row of shops, but never their home, their street or their route to school. On a class Padlet wall in the map format, each child drops a pin on each landmark and adds a photo with no people in it and a 30-second voice recording explaining what the place is used for and who uses it. The wall is set to school login only, and children post under first names only. In the second lesson the class listens to the pins in one part of the map and sorts the places into features that serve homes, work and leisure.
The water cycle: a narrated Book Creator story of a raindrop for the Grade 1 class
Over two lessons, Year 5 pairs make a short picture book for Year 2 that follows one drop of water from the sea, up into a cloud, down as rain on the hills and back along a river to the sea. Each page has a drawing made with Book Creator's pen tool or a photograph of a drawing, one or two sentences of text, and a recording of the pair reading the page aloud, which they play back and re-record until it sounds clear for six-year-olds. The teacher reads each draft and asks one question about the science on each page, such as whether anyone could see the drop while it was water vapour. Books stay in the class's private Book Creator library, and Year 2 listen to them on tablets in their own classroom.
Tools: Book Creator Nine ideas for your own version in Generate
360 tour of school grounds microclimates with children's readings and commentary
During lesson time, when the grounds are empty, groups visit six spots, such as the sunny wall by the hall, the middle of the field and the shaded corner of the car park, and record the temperature with a thermometer and the wind with a simple streamer score. At each spot they take a 360 photo with the camera held high and no people in view. Back in class, over two lessons, pairs build their part of a CoSpaces Edu tour in the teacher's class account, with one 360 scene per spot, a panel showing the readings and a short recording that plays when clicked, explaining what makes the spot warm, cold or sheltered. The tour is shared within the school only, and the class uses it to choose the best spot for a new outdoor reading bench.
Tools: CoSpaces Edu Nine ideas for your own version in Generate
Lessons that look Creative Amplify but sit in another
Useful counter-examples when you are checking your own lesson placement on the PICRAT grid.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.