Creative Amplify sits at the Creative row and the Amplify column of the PICRAT grid. Students are creative; the technology is amplifying what would otherwise be possible.

Art

Mixed-media digital collage with embedded media

Year 8 · 80 min · 1 device per student

Each student creates a digital collage on a chosen theme (e.g. memory, identity, place) combining at least three found images, two student-drawn elements and one piece of embedded text or audio. Submitted individually.

Tools: Procreate, Canva

Layered digital painting with effects and audio

Year 9 · 90 min · 1 device per student plus stylus

Each student produces a painting using at least four layers, three brush types and one effect (e.g. blur, distortion, lighting). They also record a 60-second voice-over explaining their compositional and colour choices, attached to the final piece.

Tools: Procreate

Photographic essay with annotations and music

Year 9 · 100 min · 1 device per student

Each student takes 8-10 photographs on a single chosen theme around their school or home environment. They sequence the photographs into a digital photo essay with embedded captions and a chosen music bed. Submitted as a digital artefact.

Tools: Adobe Express, Canva

English

Multimedia book report with embedded research

Year 8 · 100 min · 1 device per student

Each student builds a six-slide book report on a class novel. Slides include: a chosen cover image with rationale, a character mood-board with three image choices, a key-passage slide with embedded student-recorded audio of them reading aloud, a setting slide with research images, a thematic slide with a one-line thesis, and a recommendation slide. They present to the class for three minutes each.

Tools: Google Sites, PowerPoint

Interactive poetry analysis with audio reading

Year 9 · 90 min · 1 device per student

Each student builds a single page presenting their analysis of one poem. The page has the full poem at the top, an embedded audio recording of the student reading the poem aloud, hover-text annotations on six key lines (with the annotation appearing when the reader hovers over the line), and a 200-word thematic essay below. They publish the page for the class to read.

Tools: Google Sites

Recorded podcast review of a class novel

Year 9 · 80 min · 1 device per student plus headphones and a mic

Each student records a 90-second podcast review of a class novel. The review must include a thesis, two pieces of textual evidence read aloud, a recommended audience and a music bed chosen for the novel's tone. They submit individually to the teacher's class podcast feed.

Tools: GarageBand

Music

Sampled environmental sounds in a DAW

Year 10 · 80 min · 1 device per student plus headphones

Each student records 10 environmental sounds (bell, footsteps, water, wind, traffic, school sounds, etc.) and arranges them into a 90-second piece using DAW effects (pitch shift, reverse, time-stretch, layering). The piece must follow a clear narrative arc.

Tools: GarageBand

Vocal layers with auto-pitch and harmonisation

Year 10 · 80 min · 1 device per student plus headphones and a mic

Each student records a single melodic vocal line and uses auto-pitch correction plus a harmoniser plugin to generate three additional harmony parts. They mix the four voices into a 60-second layered vocal track. They submit individually.

Tools: GarageBand, Logic Pro

Composing with virtual orchestral instruments

Year 11 · 100 min · 1 device per student plus headphones

Each student composes a 90-second piece using virtual orchestral instruments (strings, woodwinds, brass) plus effects (reverb, compression). The piece must use at least three instrumental voices and a clear arc. They export and submit.

Tools: GarageBand, Logic Pro, BandLab

Lessons that look CA but are not

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 key stage. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.